Aircraft System Failures and FSUIPC

[dfournie]

When an aircraft system, or specific instrument is failed using the Instructor Station in FS2002, does FSUIPC reflect this? ie. If Heading Indicator is failed, is the correct heading value still supplied to it's associated FSUIPC memory offset, or does it contain the frozen Heading value at the time the faliure occured? Same with attitude, airspeed, etc...

[Pete Dowson]

When an aircraft system, or specific instrument is failed using the Instructor Station in FS2002, does FSUIPC reflect this? ie. If Heading Indicator is failed, is the correct heading value still supplied to it's associated FSUIPC memory offset, or does it contain the frozen Heading value at the time the faliure occured? Same with attitude, airspeed, etc...

I've no idea, I've never used it. But you can easily check, either with FSInterrogate (in the SDK) or using the FSUIPC Monitoring facilities (in the Logging page).

I would guess that the regular LLAPBH values (latitude longitude altitude pich bank heading) will stay reprtesenting the correct values, but the instrument values, where separate (e.g. whiskey compass, altimeter reading) will be 'incorrect'. There are failure flags in other offsets and you might expect gauges to take notice of those to decide what to indicate in any case.

Regards,

Pete