Accessing panel gauges to model home cockpit

[Guest washburn_it]

Hi,is there a way to access all of the panel gauges variables (to read instruments state or value) from the outside of FS2004?I know that through FSUIPC or FSConnect I can read standard variables value supported by FS2004, but what for non FS2004 standard gauges?What I want to do is to command the "power management selector" (that is not implemented as FS2004 standard gauge) of an ATR42/72 from a selector switch of my home build cockpit (using IOCard).Thank you, regards.Bob

[Guest theporcupine]

>What I want to do is to command the "power management>selector" (that is not implemented as FS2004 standard gauge)>of an ATR42/72 from a selector switch of my home build cockpit>(using IOCard).Can you give us a brief rundown of what this selector controls?If you are using IOCards then you should be able to model it using SIOC. I have recently started using this and it is really easy after you have followed the powerpoint tutorial on their website. Just about everything seems possable with this and I have already modelled a couple of things not in MSFS, admittedly only simple things.The Porcupineaka Simon Webbwww.desktopflying.co.uk (not updated for a few months)Very slowely putting together a generic(ish)/ 737(ish) twin desktop unit.

[Guest washburn_it]

Well...if you download one of the various ATR42-500 or 72-500 with the panel of Sanchez-Castaner you can check what this selector does.Anyway....this selector permits to set the power of the engine (torque and propeller rpm) configuration according to 4 position:(I try to remember by heart)1) Take off (max prop RPM but torque at 90% at full throttle)2) MCT (max torque and max prop RPM in case one engine fails at full throttle)3) CLB (during the climb, prop RPM and torque at 85% at full throttle)4) CRZ (during the levelled flight at final FL, torque at 90% and prop RPM around at 80/85% at full throttle)Torque and prop RPM values maybe are not right but it may give you an idea about the "power management" of the ATR.The engine and (I suppose) the prop blades angle are set by the logic that the selector drives so I should know which offset I have to "play" with to simulate that function.I tried to post also in the Flight1 Forum (I've got the Flight1 ATR72-500) but they seem to ignore such requests.Regards,Bob

[Guest stevelep]

SIOC from www.opencockpits.comis an easy but powerful programming language, you can thru FSUIPC or OICPserver access to all the FS variables and read or write them according to complex conditions.Programming a Power-Set selector is easy, you set the different RPM and Throttle values to the preset position of your selector ...Have funBOBPS you can use SIOC without to have any IOCARD, if you use another INPUT module just assign it to a free offset.And read it into SIOC...

[Guest washburn_it]

I already knew SIOC since I've got the Master Card from OpenCockpits ;) I just wanted to know the "logic" with which it is calculated the proper torque and propellers RPM or, if it's possible, the way to "dialog" with the panel's gauges.In theory what you are writing should work, but I'm afraid (I have to try yet anyway) that if I modify the value at the offsets regarding the throttle levers and props RPM, it may cause a kind of "de-sync" of the current position of the throttle in my quadrant and the position value reads from FS2004.

[Guest stevelep]

How is it in the real plane ?Is there a desync or is there motorized autothrottle ?BOB

[Guest washburn_it]

Unfortunately I don't know.Anyway...I'm trying to figure out what parameters are involved monitoring them (through FSUIPC) with an utility that I'm developing.I thought that you can't simulate anything that is not supported by FS2004 so all the gauges involved must set offsets made available by FSUIPC since the aircraft installer installs FSUIPC 3.48.Am I wrong?If I'm right, I should discover them...sooner or later :)Regards,Bob