The starship is fantastic pluis some questions
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"L:bksq_AltitudePreselect_1", "FEET"seems to be working in all scenarios for me, as does"L:bksq_VerticalSpeedPreselect_1", "feet per minute". Be sure to use the proper units with each. The airspeed bug is"A:"AUTOPILOT AIRSPEED HOLD VAR:1", "knots".@Black-Square said in The starship is fantastic pluis some questions:
"A:"AUTOPILOT AIRSPEED HOLD VAR:1", "knots".
For some reason, that value only goes up or down by two. Meaning, if I INC or DEC using the knob in the plane, that variable changes only every second "tick". : Video showing what I mean
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I just inspected the variable, and it appears to be working correctly (it has to be in order for the value to display correctly on the ASI. I think that means there is something going on between the simulator and your (very nice looking!) hardware. Sorry I don't have much more to say than that. Maybe if it's reading a different unit than knots, there could be a rounding issue?
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@neinnunb said in The starship is fantastic pluis some questions:
Thanks for quickly looking into this. I will investigate further on my end.
I'm guessing because you using the var instead of the event, I've ran into this in the past with SPAD. If you use the var and set in to "increment by 1" etc it will fire the command + 1 which will result in 2 clicks. Use the inc/dec event instead with nothing defined and it should be ok.
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Hello!
First of all the Starship is amazing, probably my favorite aircraft, thanks for making it so perfect!I have a few random questions:
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When AP is enabled and the selected altitude is captured (ALTS) is there a way to go into pitch mode? I guess in that mode the vertical wheel in the turn knob can be used to select the picth?
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When I bind the yoke elevator and trim commands to my hardware the commands work but the yoke hat switch is not animated and the sound is not reproduced, I think that would be nice as a haptic way to know you are effectively trimming the aircraft.
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Related to the previous one: If AP is enabled and I press a trim switch shouldn't the AP disconnect? Maybe the starship is different than other aircraft in this regard.
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What LVARs can I use for the altitude preselect and the ASI speed selection and for Vertical Speed? Can't find those in the manual. (Appreciate the help here).
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I noticed that for some of the screens when I pop them out both pilot and copilot screens get popped out at the same time and that is a little annoying if you want to put only the pilot screen in some monitor.
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Is there a command or something for the parking brake? For some reason I couldn't get it to work.
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I'm very curious about why there is a TO green triangle in the Roll Trim indicator, in most aircraft this is for the rudder trim not for aileron. Is the starship different? Why?
Thank you!
Luis.@lrargerich I spoke too soon about the pitch knob control! Another user reminded me that it works in the Dukes, and I was able to make the necessary changes. You still have to select a new target altitude, but then adjusting the pitch control wheel will start your climb or descent. Much improved!
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@lrargerich I spoke too soon about the pitch knob control! Another user reminded me that it works in the Dukes, and I was able to make the necessary changes. You still have to select a new target altitude, but then adjusting the pitch control wheel will start your climb or descent. Much improved!
@Black-Square That is really terrific thank you! The Learjets are almost always flown this way so it will be nice to be able to replicate that in the Starship!
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One of the Starship owners told me that this is actually the way he flies too. I prefer IASP mode whenever possible for better protection against speed degradation, but that's just me.
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@neinnunb said in The starship is fantastic pluis some questions:
Thanks for quickly looking into this. I will investigate further on my end.
I'm guessing because you using the var instead of the event, I've ran into this in the past with SPAD. If you use the var and set in to "increment by 1" etc it will fire the command + 1 which will result in 2 clicks. Use the inc/dec event instead with nothing defined and it should be ok.
@Qazme Thanks, but apparently, I found there is a problem with Spad Next not reading "AUTOPILOT AIRSPEED HOLD VAR:1" in MS 2024 properly and as Nick has guessed, it seems to be a rounding issue as far as I can see, it adds decimals to the airspeed. The developer of Spad needs to fix or find a way around this. It has been reported on their discord many months ago, but hasn't been addressed. I don't have this problem if I use MobiFlight to show the selected speed on my hardware.
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@Qazme Thanks, but apparently, I found there is a problem with Spad Next not reading "AUTOPILOT AIRSPEED HOLD VAR:1" in MS 2024 properly and as Nick has guessed, it seems to be a rounding issue as far as I can see, it adds decimals to the airspeed. The developer of Spad needs to fix or find a way around this. It has been reported on their discord many months ago, but hasn't been addressed. I don't have this problem if I use MobiFlight to show the selected speed on my hardware.
@neinnunb said in The starship is fantastic pluis some questions:
@Qazme Thanks, but apparently, I found there is a problem with Spad Next not reading "AUTOPILOT AIRSPEED HOLD VAR:1" in MS 2024 properly and as Nick has guessed, it seems to be a rounding issue as far as I can see, it adds decimals to the airspeed. The developer of Spad needs to fix or find a way around this. It has been reported on their discord many months ago, but hasn't been addressed. I don't have this problem if I use MobiFlight to show the selected speed on my hardware.
Oddly enough, maybe I just haven't been paying attention, but mine started doing it last night. C0nnex, the SPAD developer actually posted about this this morning in discord:
Recently msfs changed internal handling of aircraft related data that e.g. is in knots.
To correctly display or use it you will now need to apply rounding to the data.
In MSFS AUTOPILOT AIRSPEED HOLD VAR is a non writable variable (see their docs). SPAD just transposes a write to that data (via a Change Data Value Inc/Dec) to a AP_SPD_VAR_SET-Event, now with that MSFS change this can result in you "seeing" only every second inc/dec changes the value.
TL;DR;: Do not use change Data Value on AUTOPILOT AIRSPEED HOLD VAR use the accoriding INC/DEC EventsAccording to him this is an Asobo issue which doesn't surprise me at all. We could just use an expression and round the value to keep it from doing that. The expression
ROUND([AUTOPILOT_AIRSPEED_HOLD_VAR:1])There also ABS() and Ceiling() and Floor() which may give a better result, would need to test.
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@Qazme I am not doubting that it's an Asobo problem. However, the folks that develop MobiFlight have it working just fine, tested by myself yesterday. BTW, at that discord, my alias there is "Acktu" which I am part of that conversation you referred to.
EDIT: Soon after I posted this, the Spad developer fixed the issue. You do have to round it, or remove any decimal as the raw value has decimals.
