RNAV OBS and question about the "fuel flow" failure in the turbine duke
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I haven't really started working with KNS-81 yet, but I have been messing around with it while in cruise (mostly having luck in getting working sensible DME readings). Here i noticed, that the OBS for the RNAV over on the pilots instrument panel has trouble crossing over zero. Both 0-->359 and 359-->0 is blocked. You can still reach any setting, but not being able to cross 0 is of course a bit annoying. I guess it is just a simple typo somewhere in the code, as all the other similar instruments don't have this issue.
Also wonder why it seems to most of the time be stuck at a single dot of deflection (both vertically and horizontally) almost all the time. That could definitely just be because because I don't understand the operation yet, but it smells a bit of a full scale deflection being scaled wrong.
Next up I have enjoyed a couple of failures - detecting popped fuses and missing lights. Saw that i had 1 failure on the tablet, but never noticed anything on the flight. Checked, and it turns out it was "Fuel flow". Didn't fix the failure and fired up the plane again. I see fuel flow indication both on needles, digitally, and on the engine trend monitor working. Doesn't feel like there is anything wrong with the physical amount of fuel flow either.
Is this perhaps a failure that makes the piston dukes fuel flow gauge fail which ends up not affecting the different engine instrument of the turbine version? Otherwise I hope someone can point me to what actually failed.
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Thanks for all the notes! It's always my power users who discover the most obscure bugs. The RNAV localizer 360° wrap-around was already reported on this forum, and the fix is ready for the next update. As for the needle positions, it may be due to the fact that the wraparound allowed for inadvertent selection of OBS courses beyond 360°. The update should fix all that shortly.
Indeed you found something from the Piston Duke that accidentally made its way into the Turbine Duke! The fuel flow failure triggered the loss of a circuit that does not exist in the Turbine Duke. I've fixed that as well. Thank you for letting me know!
