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  1. Hi, I just purchased tht Bonanza/Baron bundle from Justflight, and I must say, the first impression is quite disappointing. I hope this was no bad bargain. Firstly, the avionics configuration is not saved. The aircraft starts with the GTN750/GNS430 every time. I shut down via "Main Menu" and "Quit to Desktop". I want the GNS530/KX155 configuration, since normal GA aircraft don't have avionics representing the value of a luxury car. I don't have a GTN, and I don't want one for this aircraft. The aircraft never starts with this configuration. The WT GNS530/430 is up to date. Secondly, after switching the configuration, the flight guidance is totally messed up: No lateral guidance. The CDI is dead. When pushing OBS, the planned track disappears from the GNS screens and does not come back. The autopilot only has pitch/roll mode. No HDG (not to speak of NAV), no ALT/VS. At rare occasions, the Bonanza starts with the GNS530/430 configuration, and then everything works just fine. It's pretty clear that this has to to with the intialization during startup. In the MSFS forum somebody mentioned that the state saving might have to do with the MS cloud. If that is so, this is simply ridiculous. So, what is wrong with this aircraft? Why does it have hot swappable avionics anyway? This was not a good idea, as it obviously creates all sorts of errors. Would it be possible to "hard code" the configuration on my PC? Anyway, a Happy Christmas everyone.
  2. Hi Holger, I tried this years ago with SIOC - with no success. The script in itself was okay, like yours, but I/O sometimes skipped switch positions and that blew the script. I ended up with assigning a value to each rotary position and, when switching, storing the previous position in a variable, then I scripted each possible combination and compared the current with the previous position. And it was mandatory to set the rotary in the VC to the position of the hardware switch manually when starting the flight (rotary position 1 = 5NM). That worked, at least most of the time. In SIOC every change of state of a variable (rotary position) would trigger the script. The script would do that (without any syntax): IF [current position = 2] AND [previous position = 1] THEN increase and SET [previous position = 2] IF [current position = 2] AND [previous position = 3] THEN decrease and SET [previous position = 2] IF [current position = 3] AND [previous position = 2] THEN increase and SET [previous position = 3] IF [current position = 3] AND [previous position = 4] THEN decrease and SET [previous position = 3] IF [current position = 4] AND [previous position = 3] THEN increase and SET [previous position = 4] IF [current position = 4] AND [previous position = 5] THEN decrease and SET [previous position = 4] and so on. I think you get the picture. I still needed to move the rotary slowly and only one step at a time. Boris
  3. Hi, Did I miss something or is ist really so that the throttle axes do not work past the idle detent of the lever? Value is 0 at the detent, and seems not to be adjustable. If so, how would I assign a reverse axis function? My sim is MSFS, and I have not installed any specific software for the Bravo yet. Regards Boris
  4. Thanks to the combined support by you and John Dowson I got it working now. As you state it, it's not as easy as it was with P3D... The error was most likely that I missed to activate WASM within FSUIPC. I take from your explanations that presets/events work parallel to Linda, as both refer to the same varables, and both need WASM. Now both methods are working. Regarding your "Linda not working" note - I probably better had called it PMDG not working with Linda, but my statement was the combination of both. I'm not a programmer; I consider myself an advanced user. I do read portions of documentation which affect my specific question or problem. But I'm doing this as a hobby - I have neither time nor motivation to read through hundreds of pages of documents to find the (mostly quite short) section I need. If that's a prerequisite, I might want to look for a different hobby. But I think that's what forums are for 🙂 Thanks again. Boris
  5. Found it, thanks. I set everything as described, but it still doesn't work. I found out that none of the Preset:PMDG events work in FSUIPC either, when I assign it there. Linda does work, however, for Default MSFS and MSFS Controls, for example for flaps and gear. Could that be an issue with the FSUIPC/Linda install location? I have it in an external addon folder and linked with the Addons Linker. But it does work apart from that, just not for the PMDG. Boris
  6. Thanks, would try, but I don't have an FSUIPC-WASM.ini Where does that come from? Latest versions are installed. Boris
  7. Hi, I have Linda 4.1.5.289 and FSUIPC 7.7.3 installed, and everything shows green and sync'd to sim. But Linda does not control anything in the aircraft. I started Linda well after starting the flight. Do I need to edit fsuipc.ini as described in the topic in the download forum? And if so, do I also need the WASM module for FSUIPC? Or should it also work without the edit and something else is missing? Regards Boris
  8. Thank you, that changed the unit. Now I have to change the setting depending on in which airspace I'm flying 😜 Wouldn't it be possible to add a switching option to the primary altimeter (which is digital anyway)? I remember the older versions of the Lear had this option. Boris
  9. Hi, I'd like to bump this up because it never has been solved. The painkit which I have dl'ed yesterday from the FSW website has neither a P3DV4 layer nor an albedo file. Neither in GIMP nor in Photoshop. The metallic surfaces are, together with all white sufaces, on a layer called BASE. So - how can I reproduce the metallic texture of the leading edge and the engine inlets for my own repaint? Also, I'm unsure about the DDS conversion. I have GIMP 2.10, which has DDS procedures, but none of the options seem to work - the output file always has a dimension slightliy different from 4096x4096. What does work (except for the metallic surfaces) is this weird workflow: Edit fuselage.dds in GIMP and save as bmp (creates a file with 65MB) Open one of the provided fuselage.bmp in DXTBMP (which is the only app which opens these files anyway) and send to editor (which is paint.net in my case, used for the texture creation) Paste the GIMP bmp over the texture in paint.net and save Reload and save in DXTBMP, either flipped as DDS or normal as BMP. Both output files have a size of 21MB and a res of 4096x4096. But this can't be it. So what is the correct procedure, and how can I get the metallic textures to work? Please note that I'm no GIMP/PS expert. I'm sufficiently skilled to paint stuff on existing templates, but most of the other things these programs have to offer (which is like the other 98%) makes my brain spin in overdrive. So keep explanations simple please 😋 Boris
  10. Cheers, I haven't flown the Lear in a while and have now updated to 4.3c. Did I miss something or does the altimeter have no QNH / hectopascal option anymore? If not, is there a conversion table which I can stick to the panel? 😁 Boris
  11. The problem lies within the SODE windsocks. The windsock_low.mdl file generates these textured boxes. Remove it, and the boxes are gone. Unfortunately, also the windsocks are gone then. I wonder why SODE deals with windsocks anyway - who really looks at them? RJAA has nothing to do with it - I don't have it, and I see a similarly textured box.
  12. Doesn't work. The starter switch cannot be held in position. Clcking and holding just activates it briefly before it flips back to neutral position. I cut the engines by closing the main fuel cocks. Boris
  13. Hi, Is it possible to fly a DIRECT TO WPT from PPOS with the Carenado Proline in the CJ2? What I observe when I follow the manual is this (on the DIR page): When presesing the LSK next to the WPT I want to go to, the plane wants to fly shortest way to the leg between the target WPT and the previous WPT, which leads to odd S turns instead of flying directly to the selected WPT. When typing the WPT into the scratchpad and press th eupper left LSK twice (as described in the manual) it erases my FPLN an leaves me with a blank FMC. Is that Carenado simplified Proline functionality or am I doing something wrong? Boris
  14. Hi Boris, no, Simstarter cannot do this. This is because PMDG aircraft save the panel state in the respective PMDG folder, and as long as this is not loaded with the jumpstart flight, the aircraft will load with the default state, which is with engines running. Simstarter does not copy these files when making the jumpstart flight. If it did, what you asked for should be possible. What you can do - I must mention this - is that you can edit the aircraft's ini file to default load with a specific panel state, for example cold&dark. Regarding the default flight, it is true that it can lead to problems when this flight is overwritten and a complex aircraft is loaded initially, so I would not recommend to do this. A cool feature would be, though, what you suggested in your EDIT 1. This will work for aircraft which do not maintain their own status files, even rather complex ones like the Flight1 King Air. It would be even better, when the user could specify which other files should be copied with the jumpstart flight generation with the same name as that flight, because then this feature would work also for example for PMDG aircraft. Maybe the developer will implement this feature in a later version :smile: Boris
  15. Hi, can Simstarter NG do this with jumpstart: Select a previously saved flight with a PMDG aircraft, which was saved with engines off and aircraft set up for turnaround Select a different location and time Start FSX / P3Dv3.4 HF2 with the formerly saved panel state? I tried the freeware version 2.7.4 and it cannot do this - it loads the flight, but always with the engines running. It does work, though, when I load that previously saved flight from the start screen - then the engines remain off. Please don't explain that I can load a panel state from inside the PMDG aircraft - I know that. I explicitly want to know if I can use Simstarter for the above. And in that context: PMDG recommends to not touch the default flight in FSX/P3D (not start the flight, just have it loaded in the background). I see that Simstarter appears to overwrite the default situation with the "jumpstart" situation. Can this have an effect on the aircraft initialization and functioning? EDIT 1: If this is the case: Can I use Simstarter to create a "jumpstart" situation without starting the sim with it, i.e. start the sim normally with the default situation and then load the "jumpstart" flight? This would also help. EDIT 2: Sorry, it doesn't help. The "jumpstart" flight always starts with the engines on, no matter how it is loaded. Thanks and Regards Boris
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