[Automatic landing lights action]

It works! Thanks a lot!

[Automatic landing lights action]

Thank you very much, @spokes2112, you are great! Unfortunately at the moment I can't test it, I will check in the evening or tomorrow. Anyway yes, the landing gear lever is commanded by the stock G key.

All of this is just out of curiosity unti the next FSLabs update, since they said they have a workaround in the next release. 

Thank you again for your help, I will report as soon as possible.

Many thanks also to @John Dowson!

[Automatic landing lights action]

Thank you, John.

@spokes2112 Do you think such a plugin could be done? Unfortunately I have no idea of how such things work. Thank you very much!

[Automatic landing lights action]

Thanks. Where could I find any instructions to build such a plugin?

[Automatic landing lights action]

Hi, I know nothing of such things, but is it possible, through FSUIPC, to have the landing lights automatically turn OFF then quickly ON during approach below 1000 ft AGL? This as a workaround to an issue I have with an addon airplane.

Thank you.

James

[Prepar3D v4.2 SimConnect and FSUIPC 5.123c]

Not to mind his own business, but how many times a year does Pete go on holiday? :-)

[No runways designators by ATC to AI airplanes in P3D v4]

Wow, great, with this message you are telling us that the P3D update will be before Sep 12 ;-)

[No runways designators by ATC to AI airplanes in P3D v4]

Thank you Pete. I had picked your suggestion and already reported it in the P3D forum, but your comment would be taken much more into account by LM...

[No runways designators by ATC to AI airplanes in P3D v4]

Thank you very much, Pete! At the same time, I will try and check tonight with TrafficLook.

James

[No runways designators by ATC to AI airplanes in P3D v4]

Hi, with P3D v4 the various ATC addons (Radar Contct, PF3, etc.) have a problem where the controllers do not see runways designators (right, left, center) ONLY for AI airplanes and give them instructions to taxi say to runway 16 instead of 16 left or 16 right. This does not happen with my own airplane, only with AI. Can this be caused by something wrong with FSUIPC? Thanks. 

[PMDG's new B747-400 and FSUIPC5]

Next test: without the line NoPanelsAccess=Yes (so default FSUIPC): if, as soon as I run P3D, I select the default situation, that is F22 at KVSP runway threshold, then, from inside that situation, I switch the plane to the 747, it works!

All this is with Win 7-64.

[PMDG's new B747-400 and FSUIPC5]

I tried to add the line 

NoPanelsAccess=Yes

and sometimes, after loading a default aircraft first, the 747 loaded correctly, but only a couple of times, then no more. I can't inderstand the logic behind this behaviour.

[PMDG's new B747-400 and FSUIPC5]

Thanks Pete. Going to try tonight after I go back home from work. I hope someone else can test this now and report...

[PMDG's new B747-400 and FSUIPC5]

Couldn't it be that some default options in FSUIPC block the loading of the 747 systems?

[PMDG's new B747-400 and FSUIPC5]

Same problem for me: I had the 747 for P3D v3 and FSUIPC 4. Then I bought P3D v4 and FSUIPC 5. As requested by PMDG, I uninstalled the v3 747, then installed both v3 and v4. When launching the 747 in v4 I get black screens and no landing gear. If I remove FSUIPC.dll, the airplane loads normally. 

[GSX messages to second computer with ShowText?]

Hi, I am using FSDreamteam GSX with FSX and everytime I use it I have to handle several (unrealistic) text messages on the FSX screen.

I have a second computer, WideFS connected to the FSX one, and with ShowText, that I use with Radar Contact.

Would it be possible to deviate the GSX messages from the FSX window on the main computer to the ShowText window on the second computer? I tried but no messages appear on ShowText and they always appear on the FS screen.

Thank you.

James

[Joystick exclude possible?]

Pete, unfortunately also playing with the delta did not help. The 767 LDS is different from the Maddog because when you engage the A/T the joystick is automatically excluded (as if you unplugged it from the USB port), while in the Maddog the A/T still feels the position of the joystick lever and is influenced by it, with disappointing results.

Now, since the FSUIPC "throttle off" trick excludes also the A/T, the only solution is parking the throttle lever to idle position, even if, besides being not realistic, you loose the exciting part of the takeoff, that is the hand pushing the throttle to full (or reduced) thrust to accelerate and lift off the airplane...

[Joystick exclude possible?]

Pete, I found that this happens on the Maddog Leonardo and on the 767 LevelD. On the 747-400 PMDG I can still use the A/T after I press "throttle off".

Regards,

James

[Joystick exclude possible?]

Pete, unfortunately this doesn't work, because "throttle off" means that also autothrottle doesn't work, not only the joystick.

At takeoff with the Leonardo MD80, I want to exclude the joystick when I arm the A/T, because otherwise the joystick position interferes with the A/T. If I press the "throttle off" button, also the A/T is excluded and the power doesn't increase to takeoff power.

[Joystick exclude possible?]

Thank you, Pete! I'll try tonight at home, but you made my day!

Best regards,

James

[Joystick exclude possible?]

Hi Pete,

Is it possible to exclude a joystick via a key or button assignment?

I mean, I have a throttle that I would like to exclude (like unplugging it from the USB port) during certain phases of the flight, because it interferes with the autothrottle.

Is it possible to do so via FSUIPC assignments?

Thank you and best regards,

James

[FSUIPC ini file always the same?]

Hi, I have an old version of FSUIPC (something like 3.6) and I'd like to install the latest, 3.93. Since I wouldn't like to re-calibrate my joysticks and reset all parameters from start, can I maintain the old FSUIPC.ini file or should I let ver 3.93 generate a new one? In other words, does the FSUIPC.ini file remain the same after the FSUIPC.dll update?

Thanks.

[Weather URL for FSC v7?]

Hi, I have FS Commander 7.7 and the weather URL doesn't work any longer. What URL should I use? I tried ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observatiar/cycles/

but it does not work, I think it only works in version 8.

Thanks,

James

[Steering tiller and flight controls check]

No, not the control surface, I don't see it from the cockpit. I just see the rudder indicator on the EICAS display that moves when I use the tiller, and that is not realistic.

At this point I think there is no solution :( .

Thank you anyway, Pete.

[Steering tiller and flight controls check]

There is another offset I provided for Project Magenta to read for the rudder, which reflects the rudder input even when it is the steering tiller controlling the rudder. I don't know what software you are using to display the controls but maybe it can use that too?

I don't know, I use is a yoke, Saitek rudder pedals and CH Pro Throttle, all USB. Then LDS 767 and FSUIPC. All I would like to do is moving the pedals for controls check and having the rudder move. Do you think I could use that offset?

Thank you.