On Thu, 10 May 2007 20:30:54 -0600 Ron Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 21:16 -0500, Laurence Vanek wrote: > > Ron Jensen wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 21:00 -0500, Laurence Vanek wrote: > > >> syd & sandy wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hi Klaus , Laurence .... yes, those lines ARE required ... > > >>> The problem is a mistake I created by trying to take a shortcut and > > >>> using the Find and Replace function in my editor :) > > >>> Lines 304 and 307 need to be changed to setValue() , not > > >>> setDoubleValue()... Im about to commit the fix now ... > > >>> > > >>> > > >> syd - > > >> > > >> Just flew dme arc to intercept localizer at KERI. Works perfectly. > > >> Thanks again for your excellent work on this aircraft. > > >> > > > > > > The KNS80 still doesn't throw the appropriate warning flags (unless Syd > > > through some logic in while I wasn't looking :)) and I had it do some > > > weird things while trying a VOR/PAR approach to an ILS... But its > > > starting to be summer here and my workload increases in the summer time. > > > > > > Ron > > > > > > > One thing I have noticed is that if you leave the KNS80 in rnav mode > > when tuned to localizer freq & intercept you will follow a glideslope to > > a surprising place. I have mistakenly done this a couple of times. > > Needs to be in vor mode. > > In anything but VOR mode the CDI needles are slaved to the gps so the > RNAV code can drive them. The RNAV code doesn't drive the glideslope so > it remains centered always... currently without a warning flag. > > > Im not sure but when tuned to a localizer freq should vor/rnav mode matter? > > I think the right thing to do is set the ILS flag and un-slave the CDI > needles... Which brings me back to a question I've pondered before: how > do we know we're tuned to an ILS freq? > > Ron Hi Ron , I usually check the instrumentation/nav/nav-loc and has-gs properties to determine if its an ILS freq... syd & sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
