As a real world pilot certified to fly G1000 equipped aircraft I have found a number of discrepancies, many of which are already mentioned.  I found no mention of the following flaw in the modeled aircraft here in the forum.  If there is already a thread, please direct me to it.

 

I am experiencing "gyro drift" in this aircraft.   I do not have "gyro drift" enabled in FSX.  Also, the G1000 is equipped with Attitude Heading Reference Systems" which is slaved to an electronic compass.  This system never needs resetting.  It also is suppose to last about 5 times longer than a mechanical gyro.  An excellent handbook on the G1000 can be found at this link http://www.bookmasters.com/marktplc/01595excerpt.pdf

The reader can find my reference in this handbook on page 3 under the title "The Glass Cockpit Revolution"

 

I'm not attempting to really nitpick this aircraft, because it is my favorite one to "fly" in FSX.  Also, I know the programmers are limited in what they can do in FSX toward making an aircraft realistic.  This is a small issue.  If it can be fixed, Great !  If not...oh well.

 

Andy

Private Pilot since 1972. 

 

 

 

 

Spot on, Andy. But don't be surprised to find this bug in many planes. That d key pressed in regular intervals helps and you are once again correct that FSX doesn't care much for that gyro drift option, it always drifts.

 

/ sent from a mobile thingy /

 

 

CoolP,  I found a fix that got rid of the problem.   Go into the aircraft's config file.  Scroll down to the heading "flight tuning"....scroll to the bottom and you will find 3 entries for gyro precession.  Change each value to 0.0

I tested it out on a flight .....flew for over an hour and the aircraft never drifted off the Flight plans GPS course....Dead center for the entire hour of flight.  If you try it, tell me if you get the same results.

 

P.S.  I believe the gyro is for the back up instruments.

Sorry for jumping in.. but the Flight Tuning lines have to do with flight behavior... so your changes would affect

the way the plane behaves when taxiing and in flight... but unlikely to affect the instruments in the panel  :(

 

A more direct way might be to check for drift error and correct it, if it occurs:

 

Add this to an XML gauge:

 

(A:GYRO DRIFT ERROR,RADIANS) 0 != if{ 0 (>K:HEADING_GYRO_SET) }