Hi Everyone

I am super new to all of this flight sim stuff and blows my mind how real the equipment is. I am wondering and hoping someone has a solution. I purchased the GTN 650 and it definitely runs like a dream. I also purchased the G5's so that I can mock the plane I fly. The issue I am having is that from start up when the GTN set the half needle defaults the needle does point to the 150 degree mark to verify synced. I then put in a flight plan with an approach and the GTN cycled through the flight plan but the GTN did not communicate and switch the needle to the next desired heading when it needed to.

I have reached out a couple times now with so far only getting told to contact the other company. Hope you can help me here

 

Thanks

Ken

What G5 are you talking about? The G5 is a new AH/HSI only recently released by Garmin in the real world. To my knowledge no sim developer has replicated one.

Edited February 28, 20206 yr by DavidP

Hi DavidP

The physical G5 hardware is for purchase through Realsimgear and the software for the equipment is for purchase through X-Aviation. They have a 172 set up with twin G5's in it to fly that airplane specifically but the software purchase you can overlay the steam gauges in the aircraft and fly the twin G5 layout.

Ken

3 hours ago, kcrobichaud said:

but the GTN did not communicate and switch the needle to the next desired heading when it needed to.

Hi,

Can you please post the content of the RealityXP.GTN.ini file in your aircraft folder?

[GTN]
; comma separated list of gauges
gauges = GTN_650_1

[GTN_650_1]
; comma separated list of render targets.
drawto = WINDOW, PANELS
; is the master device if true.
MasterDevice = true 
; aviation db: 0: nav_db2_grm, 1: nav_db2, 2: nav_heli_db2_grmn, 3: nav_heli_db2
NavDbType = 1
; connects to: 'PFC_GTN' or any '#PID' (#D067 for PFC_GTN)
; no value connects to first found, 'OFF' disables connection.
HardwareDevice = 
; hardware selector number or -1 to disable.
HardwareIdx = -1
LinkCrs = true 
LinkObs = true 
LinkVor = true 

[GTN_650_1.WINDOW]
; display window if true.
visible = true 
; show screen only gauge if true.
nobezel = false
; display type: WINDOW,PANEL2D,PANEL3D,PANELS
frame.type = WINDOW
; display position and dimension (left,top,width,height)
frame.rect = 1969,1058,625,264
; screen only border size (pixels).
border.size = 0
; screen only border color (#RGB or #RGBA).
border.rgba = #000000
; enable mouse clickspots if true, disable if false (use SHIFT to override)
usemouse = true 
; left mouse button on the screen toggles popup window if true (requires SHIFT+left mouse button).
popleft = false
; right mouse button on the screen toggles popup window if true (requires XP11.1).
popright = true 
; VR mode position and dimension (left,top,width,height) (requires XP11.20)
vrmode.rect = 0,350,830,350
; display as popout window if true (requires XP11.1).
undocked = false
; display mouse tooltips if true.
tooltips = false
; freeze display position if true.
locked = false
; auto hide in external view if true.
autohide = false

[GTN_650_1.PANELS]
; display window if true.
visible = false
; show screen only gauge if true.
nobezel = true
; display type: WINDOW,PANEL2D,PANEL3D,PANELS
frame.type = PANELS
; display position and dimension (left,top,width,height)
frame.rect = 0,0,0,0
; screen only border size (pixels).
border.size = 0
; screen only border color (#RGB or #RGBA).
border.rgba = #000000
; enable mouse clickspots if true, disable if false (use SHIFT to override)
usemouse = true
; left mouse button on the screen toggles popup window if true (requires SHIFT+left mouse button).
popleft = false
; right mouse button on the screen toggles popup window if true (requires XP11.1).
popright = true
 

 

Sorry didn't know how else to put it here

I can't spot anything wrong there in relation to the auto-slew feature.

However, are you sur the GTN is in GPS mode and not VLOC mode? Can you confirm toggling the GTN CDI mode also toggles the G5 HSI source accordingly?

Hi RXP

Thanks for all of your help. I have since restarted the computer a couple times since the last time i have been in X-Plane and i went and tried it today and it seems to be working like it should now. I will keep you informed and let you know if it decides not to again.

Thanks everyone for responding so quick and helping me out.

Ken