Carenado Turbo Commander Mod v6.0

[raymie 81]

Hi Bill,

If I remember correctly, I initially used "Auto Start" for the beginning of my flight. At the end of the flight, I tried both left and right mouse click on the right engine control knob. It would not click to the off position--each time I tried to mouse click on the control knob it would move slightly but spring back to Ground position (engine running). In doing the same for the left engine shut down, clicked on the control knob and it went directly to the engine off position and the left engine shut down as it should. I will try another flight and this time go through the step by step procedure for start up.

Raymie

[whamil77 183]

8 minutes ago, toucanair said:

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the awesome mods,

I'm wondering if Raymie might be having some issues with the mod as he is using P3D V3.4 still. Could it be a platform conflict perhaps?

Also, I am using P3D version 4.5 now. 

Do you know if this mod is compatible, as I'm Getting CTD's on screen load it seems from a conflict with VFX (oldProp) immersion manager for some reason. I'm troubleshooting now to see where it may be coming from exactly.

Cheers T  

There were no changes that I know about in 4.5 that should affect the mod.  I experienced the CTD problems associated with the bad VR code when I tried to start 4.5, so I reverted back to 4.4.  I think LM has found the fix and I will load 4.5 sometime soon. 

[whamil77 183]

2 minutes ago, raymie said:

Hi Bill,

If I remember correctly, I initially used "Auto Start" for the beginning of my flight. At the end of the flight, I tried both left and right mouse click on the right engine control knob. It would not click to the off position--each time I tried to mouse click on the control knob it would move slightly but spring back to Ground position (engine running). In doing the same for the left engine shut down, clicked on the control knob and it went directly to the engine off position and the left engine shut down as it should. I will try another flight and this time go through the step by step procedure for start up.

Raymie

I used AutoStart and didn't have a problem.  If you interrupted AutoStart it could have stayed on the step that starts the right engine.  If that were the case, the switch would be "trapped".  I can insert a line that cancels AutoStart if it is interrupted and releases all the switches. 

[raymie 81]

Hi Bill,

Just finished another test start, this time with the "cold and dark" set up that you have as a default setting after selecting the TC. Everything worked fine from engine start, taxi, to engine shut down. The right engine control knob worked fine in shut down. I used the scroll wheel on my mouse--control knob scrolled through each function from Ground to Engine Off. Left engine control knob worked fine as well.

Maybe there is something in the Auto Start function that is not correct, causing the initial situation that I experienced and previously described. I did select this time,  the aircraft with the more modern auto pilot panel (300). That should not make any difference I would suspect. Again, kudos for all your work in making this mod available for us. Makes the Carenado TC very enjoyable to fly.

Raymie

[whamil77 183]

My guess is that you somehow interrupted the auto start sequence at exactly the moment it put the switch in GND START RUN and it got trapped there.  You probably wouldn't ever see that again, but I will devise something that will keep it from happening. 

[raymie 81]

Okay, here is what happened--just tried this again, here is the sequence of events.

--At the default "Cold & Dark" setting, I selected "Auto Start" When doing so, Both Auto Start and Step by Step Start "buttons" turned red in color. Don't know if that is correct or not.

--The right engine started first--and did so in a normal fashion, however and this is what I forgot initially--the left engine did not go through its start sequence and fire off. There's the interruption that you may be describing. This same thing happened to me initially on my first flight. 

--Without the left engine running as it never started (waited for it to do so for about a minute), I tried to shut down the right engine via the control knob--it was "trapped" as you described it. I tried mouse clicking on it and using the mouse scroll wheel. Just went ahead and shut down the sim just like I did initially.

If you are not having a problem with this and if no one else is reporting this as an issue, it may be my set up in P3D 3.4xx??

Raymie

 

[mongo44 29]

Hi Bill: I want to join the chorus thanking you for you great mods.  I clicked on the link to dropbox in the email you sent me, but a 404 message popped up saying that the file was not longer available.  Mike Gutierrez, North Hollywood, California

[expat 4]

Hi Bill,

Just tried to open your email sent this week and the file is no longer there?

Thanks and regards,

expat

 

[RobertBernardK 7]

Bill for the FSX SE lovers you can port some changes in the V6 to V5, 

For example, the changes in the FDE, the rpm, hp, FF adjust, the effect of the drag disk propeller when we cut the power on final (,this is really true, this behavior it's similar to the real, o the RL the 690, A,B need to land no less that with 150 200 HP. If not the plane when to the ground), the start locks reworked system, In the V5 if you put the prop on feather, there's no way to put back to normal if the plane is off, and the startup is done with the prop on feather (In the RL you know that you melt the turbine and the battery too) ....... The hydraulic system too if it's easy for you, I know that it's big thing, and work, but for the FSX Users still are a lot and we will happy if you do a 5.1 version..... 

 

That's changes for examples..... Can you take it of the V6 to the V5?

 

 I can live with the KFC 300 AP, and the lights mix panel cabin, and the press system bug,  without problem, 

 

Redgars

Robert Bernard

[whamil77 183]

Update Mod v6.1 on the street.  Includes the KFC-300 correction only.  Still assembling the remaining bug list for investigation.

[Ralvarez232 15]

16 hours ago, whamil77 said:

Welp......Bad news.  This will simply not work with FSX.  All development and testing was done with P3Dv4.4.  The resulting models are beyond the scope of FSX.  I tried to re-compile them using the FSX SDK to no avail. I tried to convert the FSX version to include the details in the mod.  Still no luck.  I think there is some dividing line between the 64 bit and 32 bit versions that can't be crossed.  Anyway....very sorry.  

If you are an FSX user and discarded v5.0 please send me a PM and I will re-post v5.0 to Dropbox for you to download. 

Hi Bill,

I manged to make a full flight using FSX SE with mod v6.1, but falling back the interior model to v5.0 (A690_interior_GTN.mdl) and seems to be working fine. I'm using GTN LITE model options (except for the interior model) and GTN KFC300 panel options. However, I am not completely sure if all your enhancement in v6.1 are working properly for FSX SE. It seems so (I burned the engines exceeding POH procedures 😉). Would you recommend to keep this mod in FSX SE with the v5.0 interior model or just fall back to v5.0? I have v5.0 mod backed up.

Again thanks very much for your outstanding job!!

Best Regards,

Roberto

[edpatino 1,964]

Hi Bill:

All good with the v6.1 and the KFC-300 AP, now it's showing Ok.

Could you please check why the landing lights and extend/retract switches do not work?. I noticed this today.

Cheers, Ed

[C525B 86]

1 hour ago, edpatino said:

Hi Bill:

All good with the v6.1 and the KFC-300 AP, now it's showing Ok.

Could you please check why the landing lights and extend/retract switches do not work?. I noticed this today.

Cheers, Ed

Bill's wired them to the default landing lights toggle.  Ctrl+L will now extend the lights and turn them on in one keystroke.  I find that quite helpful.

[raymie 81]

2 hours ago, edpatino said:

Could you please check why the landing lights and extend/retract switches do not work?. I noticed this today.

Hi Bill,

I am having the same problem as quote above by edpatino. The mouse click spots do not work on all three switches--landing lights and the extend\retract switch. I get the switch "click" sound but no switch movement. I must use the keyboard functions to operate the landing lights and the extension\retraction operation.

Thanks again for all that you have done in your work, expertise and personal time to make these mods available for us to enjoy.

Raymie

[whamil77 183]

Every time I distribute this thing I forget to remove my own code for controlling the landing lights with FSUIPC. 

1.  Go to the main gauges folder and open the GAUGE_690B_mod folder.

2. Find the file "Gauge_UPDATE_DIG_2.xml" and open it with notepad or some other text editor.

3.  Scroll down until you see these lines:

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<!-- For default VC landing light operation -->

<!-- (L:ASD_690B_SWITCH_LANDING_LIGHT_RIGHT,number) 0 ==
(L:ASD_690B_SWITCH_LANDING_LIGHT_LEFT,number)  0 == and if{
    (A:LIGHT LANDING,bool) 0 != if{ 1 (&gt;K:LANDING_LIGHTS_TOGGLE) } } els{
    (A:LIGHT LANDING,bool) 0 == if{ 1 (&gt;K:LANDING_LIGHTS_TOGGLE) } } -->

<!-- For assigning landing lights to FSUIPC landing lights switch -->    
        
(A:LIGHT LANDING,bool) 0 != if{ 1 (>L:ASD_690B_EXTEND) 1 (>L:ASD_690B_SWITCH_LANDING_LIGHT_RIGHT,number) 1 (>L:ASD_690B_SWITCH_LANDING_LIGHT_LEFT,number) (>K:LANDING_LIGHTS_ON) }
(A:LIGHT LANDING,bool) 0 == if{ 0 (>L:ASD_690B_EXTEND) 0 (>L:ASD_690B_SWITCH_LANDING_LIGHT_RIGHT,number) 0 (>L:ASD_690B_SWITCH_LANDING_LIGHT_LEFT,number) (>K:LANDING_LIGHTS_OFF) }

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To restore the normal clickable landing light switches change it to look like this (you can cut and paste from this page):

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<!-- For default VC landing light operation -->

(L:ASD_690B_SWITCH_LANDING_LIGHT_RIGHT,number) 0 ==
(L:ASD_690B_SWITCH_LANDING_LIGHT_LEFT,number)  0 == and if{
    (A:LIGHT LANDING,bool) 0 != if{ 1 (&gt;K:LANDING_LIGHTS_TOGGLE) } } els{
    (A:LIGHT LANDING,bool) 0 == if{ 1 (&gt;K:LANDING_LIGHTS_TOGGLE) } }

<!-- For assigning landing lights to FSUIPC landing lights switch -->    
        
<!-- (A:LIGHT LANDING,bool) 0 != if{ 1 (>L:ASD_690B_EXTEND) 1 (>L:ASD_690B_SWITCH_LANDING_LIGHT_RIGHT,number) 1 (>L:ASD_690B_SWITCH_LANDING_LIGHT_LEFT,number) (>K:LANDING_LIGHTS_ON) }
(A:LIGHT LANDING,bool) 0 == if{ 0 (>L:ASD_690B_EXTEND) 0 (>L:ASD_690B_SWITCH_LANDING_LIGHT_RIGHT,number) 0 (>L:ASD_690B_SWITCH_LANDING_LIGHT_LEFT,number) (>K:LANDING_LIGHTS_OFF) } -->

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Save the file.  The clickable landing light switches will now work.