WINWING FCU / MCDU with Mobiflight
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Hey!
I've had some fun creating a Starship profile for the winwing FCU using mobiflight's beta* release. The basic button input functionality works like a charm, but I haven't figured out if it's possible to display IAS, HDG, ALT, VS. I just learned about mobiflight a few weeks ago, so all I'm aware of are the presets, and those display variables aren't available.
My hunch is that those variables exist somehow (they have to right?) but mobiflight doesn't have them as presets, so I have to make them myself(?)
*using the beta was necessary for transcribing the Boeing PFP to the Airbus MCDU. Once I learn more about mobiflight, I like to tackle an MCDU profile, but we'll see.
Any advice to display Starship IAS, HDG etc. on the winwing FCU?
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Sounds like a fun project! I was hoping that someone would chime in with their solution, but this doesn't sound too difficult. If that's really all you're looking for, you can use the core simulation values, which will be accurate for Starship, minus some smoothing filters:
A:AIRSPEED INDICATED, knots
A:INDICATED ALTITUDE:1, feet
A:VERTICAL SPEED, feet per minute
A:PLANE HEADING DEGREES MAGNETIC, degrees -
Altitude: AUTOPILOT ALTITUDE LOCK VAR 1
Heading: AUTOPILOT HEADING LOCK DIRI believe the ones BS posted above are the live values - so your FCU display would simply just be a digital altimeter or compass, etc. The ones I have listed here are the values that you actually select and command the autopilot. I use SPAD, not mobiflight, but these are the data points I read in the sim so the program can display on the hardware.
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Just got my FCU last week and was looking for something like this but found nothing so I did a bit of digging with the in-game dev mode, looking at the Behavior vars and I was able to get the FCU fully functional with displaying the lcd digits as well as the state led for AP modes:
CRS -> OBS setting. Index of 1 or 2. Course CRS
SPEED -> (A:AUTOPILOT AIRSPEED HOLD VAR,Knots)
HDG -> (A:AUTOPILOT HEADING LOCK DIR,Degrees)
ALT -> (A:AUTOPILOT ALTITUDE LOCK VAR:1,Feet)
VS -> (A:AUTOPILOT VERTICAL HOLD VAR,Feet/minute)I could share my profile to make it easier but not sure if that's allowed.
Edit: for some reason, the ALT does not update while in ALT HOLD, I need to press either VS or IAS and then will change as I select new values with the knob, maybe a BS dev can shine some light? It's not a major issue but it bugs me a little as it's so close to perfection.
