Hi,

 

I bought the Chancellor in the current sale.

I am having difficulty getting Nav 2 to work. In the liveries with the GNS 530, when I tune the Nav 2 radio, the CDI for Nav 2 doesn't respond, so I can only use Nav 1 as tuned in on the GNS 530.

When I load up the liveries with 2 PMS GTN 750s, whatever I enter on the left unit, also transfers accross to the right unit, so I cannot tune one of them for Nav 1, and the other for Nav 2.

Am I missing something here, or is the lack of Nav 2 a bug in the plane?

Thanks

 

On 6/14/2024 at 5:54 AM, WestEnd said:

Hi,

 

I bought the Chancellor in the current sale.

I am having difficulty getting Nav 2 to work. In the liveries with the GNS 530, when I tune the Nav 2 radio, the CDI for Nav 2 doesn't respond, so I can only use Nav 1 as tuned in on the GNS 530.

When I load up the liveries with 2 PMS GTN 750s, whatever I enter on the left unit, also transfers accross to the right unit, so I cannot tune one of them for Nav 1, and the other for Nav 2.

Am I missing something here, or is the lack of Nav 2 a bug in the plane?

Thanks

 

The GNS530 contains the Nav1 radio, you cannot tune Nav2 with that GPS. With that panel you use the little keyboard and display located below the GNS530 to tune Nav2.

If using two GTN750s, the left GTN contains Nav1 and the right GTN Nav2. Below you see Nav1 tuned to 109.9 which happens to be the Localizer freq for 35L at KCOS. Nav2 is tuned to 112.5 which is a local VOR (BRK) frequency. Nav2 is driving both the RMI and the VOR head in this picture. The GTNs are in GPS mode and the HSI course arrow is pointing in the direction of the first waypoint, the HGO VOR, which is East of KCOS.

Al

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 18, 20241 yr by ark

As Ark said you use the the keyboard panel marked RNAV/NAV2 to tune Nav 2, and enter the course. This displays on the CDI on the left. I spent a lot of time trying to work out if you could use Nav 2 as the source for the Autopilot, but unless I'm missing something, you can't.

There's a button on the autopilot panel marked NAV1/NAV 2 (when using 530), but that just flips from vor/loc to gps mode. To add to the confusion it doesn't change the CDI annunciation on the 530 (though it's functionally doing the same thing).

So Nav 2 works fine, but only as guidance, not for AP. Same for the 750.

8 hours ago, ark said:

The GNS530 contains the Nav1 radio, you cannot tune Nav2 with that GPS. With that panel you use the little keyboard and display located below the GNS530 to tune Nav2.

If using two GTN750s, the left GTN contains Nav1 and the right GTN Nav2. Below you see Nav1 tuned to 109.9 which happens to be the Localizer freq for 35L at KCOS. Nav2 is tuned to 112.5 which is a local VOR (BRK) frequency. Nav2 is driving both the RMI and the VOR head in this picture. The GTNs are in GPS mode and the HSI course arrow is pointing in the direction of the first waypoint, the HGO VOR, which is East of KCOS.

Al

 

 

 

 

 

Hi,

Thanks for your response. On my PMS GTN 750s, if I change one, the other changes also to the same frequency. Perhaps there is a setting I can't see that I need to find.

On the GNS 530, I have been using the little keyboard to tune Nav 2, but the CDI for Nav 2 doesn't come alive. There is a ltlle switch to the bottom right of the CDI, but selecting Nav 2 there isn't malking any difference.

I will try again, and see if I can find the problem.

Actually the 2 PMS GTN 750s are now working independently as NAV 1 and NAV 2 now. Perhaps that was a little bug as I bought a few planes in the recent marketplace sale, and another had a bug with a workaround needed for the GPS if you loaded ready to fly, and i noticed that was fixed in yesterday's update.

I'm still struggling to get the CDI to respond to Nav 2 in the GNS 530 liveries though, after entering the frequency in the little keyboard, and selecting Nav 2 at the bottom right of the CDI.

 

10 hours ago, WestEnd said:

I'm still struggling to get the CDI to respond to Nav 2 in the GNS 530 liveries though, after entering the frequency in the little keyboard, and selecting Nav 2 at the bottom right of the CDI.

 

There is no "selecting Nav 2 at the bottom right of the CDI" for the VOR head. You can select Nav1 or Nav2 for the RMI, which is the gauge located directly below the airspeed indicator. The RMI has two arrows (pointers), but they are not referred to as CDIs. They just point to the Navaid's location. Note to select Nav2 for the RMI, the switch has to be in the full down position -- looks like it is almost pointing to RN because the switch is intentionally misaligned a bit as might happen in a real plane over time. There is no RN function.

If you are talking about the VOR head, which is the gauge directly below the clock, then that gauge and its CDI defaults to using Nav2.

To enter a Nav2 frequency using the little keyboard, first click on the FRQ key, enter your frequency, and then click the ENT key TWICE (so the little green light stops flashing and goes out).

For the RMI or the VOR to respond to a Nav2 frequency, you must be in range of the associated Navaid.

Al

Edited June 18, 20241 yr by ark

Apologies, I was completely wrong in my post yesterday! Autopilot can engage with NAV 2 when using the 530. The button on the autopilot marked NAV 1/NAV 2 does flip the AP source between the two, it just doesn't illuminate NAV 2 (at least on Xbox) so it looks like it hasn't changed. Sorry for misleading you on that!

15 hours ago, ark said:

There is no "selecting Nav 2 at the bottom right of the CDI" for the VOR head. You can select Nav1 or Nav2 for the RMI, which is the gauge located directly below the airspeed indicator. The RMI has two arrows (pointers), but they are not referred to as CDIs. They just point to the Navaid's location. Note to select Nav2 for the RMI, the switch has to be in the full down position -- looks like it is almost pointing to RN because the switch is intentionally misaligned a bit as might happen in a real plane over time. There is no RN function.

If you are talking about the VOR head, which is the gauge directly below the clock, then that gauge and its CDI defaults to using Nav2.

To enter a Nav2 frequency using the little keyboard, first click on the FRQ key, enter your frequency, and then click the ENT key TWICE (so the little green light stops flashing and goes out).

For the RMI or the VOR to respond to a Nav2 frequency, you must be in range of the associated Navaid.

Al

Thanks for the help. It's working now. I think it was pressing the enter key twice that did it. I must have only been pressing it once before.