Hi guys,Still really enjoying getting to grips with my new toy. This baby is so realistic and it feels like the real thing!I posted a couple of days ago about the trimwheel issue. Since then, I have also noticed an issue with the ADF, although it is not a bug as such; it is a limitation of Flight Simulator that perhaps needs a work around.The ADF handles frequencies of whole numbers, ie. 545 but I think I am right in saying it is not possible to use frequencies such as 363.5 because you can't select the .5.In real life, ADF's like the one in MAAM's DC-3 automatically scan the .5 frequency, i.e for a beacon transmitting 363.5 you would select 363 and that would be close enough. In flight simulator, you have to have the frequency spot on in order to pick up the beacon.As a possible solution, would it be possible to update the ADF gauge so we can select the .5, like in the picture below?http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/81316.jpgKeep up the good work guys

Hello... Could you sign your name on posts in here please, so we know what to call you? Thanks. :-)It's not strictly speaking true that the radios automatically scan the ".5" frequencies on ADFs. It is my understanding that, prior to the introduction of ILS approaches and their associated outer markers, no NDB in the US was tuned to a decimal frequency and, as such, many ADF radios did not require the ability to tune to them.When I was learning to fly a few years ago, one of the club Cessnas had an ADF radio that could not tune to .5. It wasn't a problem, because the airfield's NDB was 356MHz - a whole number - and the range that the radio picked up when tuned was so wide that it could track the .5 frequencies anyway. At one point, my instructor tuned the radio to it's minimum setting of 200MHz, pulled the knob out and we were flying around quite happily listening to BBC Radio 4, transmitting on 198MHz and with the ADF needle pointing at the BBC transmitter south of Birmingham!!!Obviously, in FS, we don't have that option. Frequencies are either set or not, unlike the real world. The team have programmed the NDB/ADF to work exactly as the real one does, so the .5 tuning option is missing. It could be added as an option, I guess, if a gauge programmer wished to do so. If they wanted to use the original bitmaps to put their modified radios in, they'd have to ask the team first... ;-)I can understand why it would be wanted, though.Cheers,Ian P.BTBT Gopher and Random Beer Crate Rotator:-halo

I am working on a modification - not upgrade, because you can't upgrade an authentic panel! - to the MAAM panel which is in BETA at present. It is particularly geared to those who fly multiplayer or VATSIM in complex skies and use TSComSet, Teamspeak, FSTSTuner and/or Roger Wilco.This will have several more generic features as would be found in a contemporary DC-3, to include Bendix Radio Stack in place of the Sperry, offering standby radios, modern autopilot with ILS capture Approach mode, ADF with decimal point function, FSTSTuner indicator light in COM2. Stack enlarges in a pop-up window if required, including audio panel. The new stack is also usable in the VC. The default MAAM radios have been removed from the overhead, although the original audio panel remains.Other features:The default GPS replaced by the Garmin 530 by Don Kuhn and linked as a pop-up from the pilot's and co-pilot's position.A new (well, old, actually) mag gyro gauge replacing the DG presently there, with heading bug dial.An ATC Control Panel - Bill Morad's excellent panel, which I have visually modified slightly to fit, sits neatly under the compass as a pop-up and enables control of all FS ATC functions using the mouse, rather than having to use the keyboard.Also, a Roger Wilco Switch panel - allows selection of up to nine preset Roger Wilco frequencies from the cockpit. Toggled as a pop-up, appearing under the compass (in the same place as the ATC Control Panel, but the latter does not function in multiplayer so there is no conflict of positioning; you will never need to use both together).Gear indicator lights at the bottom right of the main panel. I have not carried this modification through to the VC as it is easy enough (and correct procedure) to establish the position of the gear by referring to the gear hydraulics gauge.Radio CD player by R.L. Clark - an indulgence, but for those of you who enjoy long flights, this is a wonderful add-on. You can play CDs from within the sim and select up to 12 presets (MP3s, WAV files or MIDI files) from your computer's hard drive.Two timers by Ike H Slack in a pop-up window for flight and pattern leg timing.Aircraft registration, as set in the sim by the user as "tail number", will appear on the panel under the Attitude Indicator in 2D, IFR and VC views.Map and GPS icons are now provided on the pilot's side.Slight darkening of panel overall, and change of instrument nightlighting to a reddish glow typical of many DC-3s. Most early instruments were not actually backlit but were lit by small red bulbs shining down on them.A number of other small features are still under consideration based on feedback from those flying this panel at present at DC-3 Airways.In time, there is the possibility of an official second panel from the MAAM-SIM team, in the way of a more generic panel for the DC-3 variations. That will take time, however, and although discussed, is not a firm decision as far as I am aware.Mark "Dark Moment" BeaumontVP FleetDC-3 Airwayshttp://www.swiremariners.com/newlogo.jpg

Ian,Thanks for your reply to my ADF post.I acknowledge the fact that the gauge we have is the "real" one as it were; the point I am making is that whilst the kit would work in the real world, it won't work the same in Flight Sim. The limitations of flight sim are such that if we want to tune beacons with .5 spacing we need a way to do that, otherwise it's no dice.The 767PIC team fell foul of the same problem with their 767 panel. What they created was 100% correct, but wouldn't quite work in the FS world the same as in the real world.Cheers for now,CM