GNS 530/430 power up.

[bluebell2 36]

I do not know if it should work this way but the GNS 530 and 430 power up from the AVIONICS MASTER SWITCH even when the BATTERY MASTER SWITCH is OFF.

 

In a cold a dark cockpit like the Cessna 172 just switch on the AVIONICS MASTER SWITCH and GNS comes on.

 

Do we not need to put the battery on or ground supply first?

[RXP 2,338]

XP11 Beta or XP10 ? 

 

The system is rather dumb: it just reads the X-Plane "sim/cockpit/electrical/avionics_on" dataref and use power or not based on the value returned.

 

If this dataref returns 1, it powers on.

If this dataref returns 1 when it shouldn't, it is either an X-Plane bug, or the aircraft overriding the expected behaviour (either via script, or via plane maker options - if any ).

[bluebell2 36]

 

 

XP11 Beta or XP10 ? 

 

I am testing in XP11pb6 but will test in XP10 as well.

 

 

 

it is either an X-Plane bug, or the aircraft overriding the expected behaviour

 

It was with the default Cessna 172 in XP11 and does not happen with GTN 750/650.

 

The main reason I ask is I do not have a AVIONICS MASTER SWITCH in the BELL 429.