GNS530 startup bug + Autopilot indicator lights

GunStrauss

@esaahonen yeah, thats why i belive it’s a bug thats not only affecting the autopilot lights.

esaahonen

Could I please get an answer to the question in my first post here? I'm using the 850 almost on daily basis and these problems are pretty annoying.

One more detail about the NAV and HDG light problem: I recently set up Octavi IFR-1 with MobiFlight and when the indicator light problem occurs in virtual cockpit the lights also refuse to work on Octavi (ie. via LVars).

Best regards

jmarkows

Sounds like a local problem; I had to redo my system over the weekend, and after a fresh install of the sim and the TBM and multiple flights, I did not have any such AP issues. I am using a 530 and radio combination FWIW. The only oddity I've seen was my first flight after I changed the avionics; the 530 added duplicate waypoints on me, but still appeared to work. I since restarted the sim and have had anything but perfect operations.

Have you opened a ticket with Just Flight about it?

GunStrauss

@jmarkows I have the same problem as @esaahonen, not only on this installation, but also my past one.

jmarkows

That's interesting, I'll take a closer look next time I take her up in the next day or so.

lilycrose

I've installed the TBM 3 different times, and tried changing the GPS configuration, etc. I've never had autopilot lights.

jmarkows

We're talking the little green text above each button on the center panel to indicate the active mode, or something else?

I am certain I've seen at least some, if not all of the modes I've used light up on the center panel, as well as ARM, CAPT, etc. on the altitude selector on the pilot's panel, but I want to make sure I'm looking at the same things you guys are.

lilycrose

For me, the middle lights seem to work, ALT and FD anyway, but nothing in the top row.

jmarkows

I went and did some practice approaches tonight on VATSIM, and I made sure to cycle each mode at least once. I never did see ARM for NAV or APR (likely a sim limitation with the stock avionics), but I did get the green indicator above all of the modes as appropriate, and TEST turns red.

I am using the WT 530 as the primary and the radio as the second, no fancy GNS here. I have the WT "pointer" mod installed via the Content Manager, but the TBM almost certainly calls the WT avionics natively and doesn't need it.

GunStrauss

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lilycrose

So I did some experimenting, since the AP shows all the lights in 2024 (just copied and pasted the files). I removed the pms50-instrument-gtn750 folder from Community (I don't use the 750, but the Duke's GPS won't autofill the flight plan without it.) Once I removed that folder, and tested the autopilot, I got at least the HDG light. Going to try a flight later and see if I get all the lights, but looks like the PMS conflicts with the GPS in the TBM (how's that for a slew of TLA's?)

Edit: Removing the PMS package fixed the problem for me. All the lights worked, and I don't need the PMS in the TBM for the flightplan. Now I just have to remember to put it back when I fly the Duke.