Gear position

[chazzie]

Hi All!

I'm trying to get the gear position from FS to make a co-pilot say "Gear going down" - "Gear down - locked" etc. My problem is that I cannot seem to get any values inbetween 0 and 16383. The next reading after pressing the gear down button is 16383, just as it's 0 when retracting the gear.

The code is as follows if anyone can see any problems:

If FSUIPC_Read(&HBEC, 4, VarPtr(Tmp), dwResult) Then

If FSUIPC_Process(dwResult) Then

Nose_Gear_Pos = Tmp

End If

End If

all according to the SDK..

Regards,

Patrik

[Pete Dowson]

I'm trying to get the gear position from FS to make a co-pilot say "Gear going down" - "Gear down - locked" etc. My problem is that I cannot seem to get any values inbetween 0 and 16383. The next reading after pressing the gear down button is 16383, just as it's 0 when retracting the gear.

Please check things out using FSInterrogate. What does that show? Try it with different aircraft.

Pete

[chazzie]

Tried another (stock) aircraft and it worked. Tried another add-on aircraft and it worked. Tried the first aircraft again and it worked for some reason. Re-started and tried with the first aircraft and it didn't work. Tried the add-on aircraft again and it worked. Switched back and it didn't work. I found that the main power switch was turned off in the first A/C, which seem to have caused the problem.

Regards,

Patrik

[Pete Dowson]

I found that the main power switch was turned off in the first A/C, which seem to have caused the problem.

Ah, interesting! Seems that the indicators give misleading results with no power? Did the gear actually deploy/retract?

Regards,

Pete