G5 GPSS, AP Modes and more
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 10:02 am
Hi @Ralph,
I just tried to configure the G5 premium panels in my Sim Pit (Piper Arrow with a KAP140 AP and Reality XP GTN/GNS) and ran into a few issues:
1) The PFD shows the currently active autopilot modes even though this should only be the case if the G5 is driving a GFC500 Autopilot. As detecting the autopilot via the preconfigured AP dataref in XP is rather unreliable (as most planes just habe it set to custom) and some users may even want the Display even with different autopilots it would be great if you would add a user property to enable or disable the autopilot mode display.
2) The G5 has the option via a user property to enable the GPSS menu entry in the PFD mode (“on supported configurations”). However, I could not get this to work on my setup. What are the prerequisites for GPSS with the panel?
3) Now that I think about it, if I remember correctly (not on a PC currently), the user properties for the Flight Director only offered the choice between single and double cue. But when connected to a analog legacy autopilot like the KAP140 there shouldn’t be a flight director at all. So it would be great if you could add a third option to disable the FD completely. This might also an issue for the Aspen premium panel, if I remember correctly, it doesn’t have a option to disable the FD as well.
4) Regarding the bearing pointers, in the example of the appropriate section in the G5 POH the pointers are set to GPS1 and VOR2, so I assume it is possible to connect two GNS receivers (the G5 equipped planes I fly IRL only have one GNS so I can only guess). Is there a specific reason that you have limited the G5 only to NAV1 and GPS1?
I know that the G5 isn’t meant to be a full replica of the real unit. But 1) and 3) shouldn’t take long to implement and would be a real added value for some of the users. And 2) and 4) are only questions anyways.
Best regards
Florian
I just tried to configure the G5 premium panels in my Sim Pit (Piper Arrow with a KAP140 AP and Reality XP GTN/GNS) and ran into a few issues:
1) The PFD shows the currently active autopilot modes even though this should only be the case if the G5 is driving a GFC500 Autopilot. As detecting the autopilot via the preconfigured AP dataref in XP is rather unreliable (as most planes just habe it set to custom) and some users may even want the Display even with different autopilots it would be great if you would add a user property to enable or disable the autopilot mode display.
2) The G5 has the option via a user property to enable the GPSS menu entry in the PFD mode (“on supported configurations”). However, I could not get this to work on my setup. What are the prerequisites for GPSS with the panel?
3) Now that I think about it, if I remember correctly (not on a PC currently), the user properties for the Flight Director only offered the choice between single and double cue. But when connected to a analog legacy autopilot like the KAP140 there shouldn’t be a flight director at all. So it would be great if you could add a third option to disable the FD completely. This might also an issue for the Aspen premium panel, if I remember correctly, it doesn’t have a option to disable the FD as well.
4) Regarding the bearing pointers, in the example of the appropriate section in the G5 POH the pointers are set to GPS1 and VOR2, so I assume it is possible to connect two GNS receivers (the G5 equipped planes I fly IRL only have one GNS so I can only guess). Is there a specific reason that you have limited the G5 only to NAV1 and GPS1?
I know that the G5 isn’t meant to be a full replica of the real unit. But 1) and 3) shouldn’t take long to implement and would be a real added value for some of the users. And 2) and 4) are only questions anyways.
Best regards
Florian