Hi,

I was hoping someone might be able to help me troubleshoot something. I downloaded the awesome PMDG DC-6 module from here. I am also using a Vrinsight boeing MCP. I have some knowlege of LINDA and LUA I have picked up over the years. Anyway, I enjoy flying the DC-6 with the default FSX autopilot (not the built in one) I know its not "authentic" but I enjoy it more. Anyway, I have assisned the default FSX autopilot commands to my MCP. However, when it comes to HDG, ALT and VS (assigned to the rotary knobs) the adjust the value up or down, but after a short period of inactivity, the value on the MCP display goes to the zero. Actually, it may be going to the current value the aircraft is doing (eg if the plane is facing north and I turn the HDG bug to 090, the bug moves and is shows on the display, but a moment later the VrInsight Display shows north again. The HDG bug stays on 090. But when I go to move the bug now to say 091, one click to the right will now set the HDG bug to 001) Very strange. The same applies to ALT and VS selections.

I am wondering if I have explained this well enough?

Any thoughts would be welcome and thanks in advance!!!

Clark

And interestingly enough, when I assign the rotaries to "Do Nothing" in Linda, I see similar activity on the MCP screen itself (although P3D does not register any commands, as to be expected)

Your second statement suggests that you have software other than LINDA running. Please ensure that vrsim.exe is not running. These software are mutually exclusive.

Thanks for the reply! I do not have vrsim.exe running. I checked in windows task manager to make sure it wasn't somehow running in the background and it seems not... 🙂 To clarify my second statement - when I change the AP values (eg HDG, ALT or VS) using either other hardware or simply using the mouse in the aircraft, I see the changes reflected momentarily on the Vrinsight MCP screen, before the MCP screen goes back to displaying "current" values (ie aircraft altitude instead of AP set altitude bug or current compass heading instead of AP HDG bug value).

I seem to be unable to change the VRinsight display mode for the DC6 module from "flight info" to "Autopilot" mode - I think this could be it maybe?

I should add that I use Linda for many other aircraft and haven't seen this before, so I was thinking it might be specific to this module?

Thank you so much for thinking helping!

Clark

The Flight Info mode is normally used with aircraft without autopilots so that basic flight information is always visible.

The display mode on the MCP can be changed using the functions in the LIB:VRInsight and VRI DSP Mode Switching. These are VRI_DSP_MODE_toggle, _flight_info and _autopilot. You need to assign one of these to a button.

Hello!

I think I figured it out! There was the following in the module in the initVars function ---
    -- uncomment to disable display
    AutopilotDisplayBlocked ()

    ipc.sleep(100)
    DC6_A12_HDGind_show ()
    ipc.set("DC6Disp", 1)

I don't fully understand it but it seems to be designed to show the AP display only momentarily then return to simply reading (and showing) current values. So I simply removed the entire contents of the initVars function and now it seems to show only AP values (as I wanted)!!! It hasn't seemed to broken anything else! I guess the originally designer of the module kind of wanted to "hide" the fsxs/p3d default AP values because inherently the PMDG DC-6 uses its own custom vintage AP (which is cool but too fussy for me)

Thank you so much for your help anyway Andrew!!!!!!

-Clark

 

I'm so glad I figured this out!!!