Thank you very much for your wishers. Everything has an end and so I'm back home since yesterday evening. Well, weather was also not good. Nevertheless I had some nice days for hiking. Now I'm going to make the last steps on the new BAe 146 panel. I think I could upload it within the next two weeks.
Thema von Matthias_L im Forum News & Announcements
Hi All,
I'm currently on the road enjoing my summer holiday That's why I couldn't answer all postings here in time and I'm not sure when I see the next internet cafe. However there are a lot of really very kind flightsimmers here in the forum who maybe could help you with your problems. If not, I'm back end of next week. Thank syou very much for your understanding.
I'm currently on the road enjoing my summer holiday That's why I couldn't answer all postings here in time and I'm not sure when I see the next internet cafe. However there are a lot of really very kind flightsimmers here in the forum who maybe could help you with your problems. If not, I'm back end of next week. Thank syou very much for your understanding.
Thank you very much for your posting and the interest in the J41 panel. Unfortunately I've still just finished the bitmaps for this aircraft and so it will take some time until it is ready. I don't know when, but I already could say that it will not be released in 2007.
Thank you very much for your posting and the compliment about my panels. I'm very happy that you like it.
About the GNS-X: Unfortunately I could not say when it comes. Stefano, a C programmer, is currently helping me with a C gauge. Nevertheless it's quite too soon to say more about it.
Ernie Alston has programmed a very good GNS gauge. Unfortunately it's not freeware. However my version 4.2 panel works with it. Please take a look at Ernie's site: http://www.isgsim.com/ to get more information about his GNS.
If there is a difference between the J32 and J31 cockpit it is not very big. The Jetstream 31 had two different basic cockpit layouts depending on the Flight Control System. Two different Flight Control Systems were in use. Those were the SPZ 200 and SPZ 500. You could recognize the type when looking at the HSI for example. The SPZ 500 use a HSI with a digital course and distance readout. The J32 panels I saw were always equipped with the SPZ 500 Flight Control System. I'm not sure if ever a J32 was built with the SPZ 200 FCS.
Thank you very much for your posting, the compliment and the very kind words about my work. I'm very happy that you like it.
The new ARJ panel contents an entry in the fuel system gauge to open the mixture control of the Flightsimulator after the panel is loaded. I do not know why but it seems that sometimes this code does not proceed. In this case it only helps to press cntr+shift+F4 to open the mixture control as Peter already wrote.
Thank you very much for your posting and the compliment about my panel. I'm very happy that you like it and I'm very proud that you prefer my 2D views. Unfortunately a vitual cockpit is always part of the aircraft mdl file. The only one who could replace it is the aircraft designer. Maybe you could contact Paul and ask him.
Thank you very much for the compliment about my panel. I'm very happy that you like it.
Unfortunately I don't have the CIVA INS gauge, so I have no experience with installing it or with the gauge itself. Maybe someone here in the forum could provide you his help installing this gauge.
One important thing: Please take care to use version 4.2 when you want to use the Civa INS. Version 4.2 is the newest one and the only one at the moment which allows a controlling of the autopilot from another gauge (like the INS).
Thank you very much for your posting here. I'm very happy that you like the new forum.
Yes, the enhancement of the old BAe 146's could be compared with the DC-10 / MD-10 program. It's quite funny. For a long time I thought the displays are the same in the EFIS 146 and the ARJ which makes it easy for me to create an EFIS version. But the PFD is quite different. The BAe 146 has a very simple PFD with not many functions, so I'll have to program a new one.
There's just one BAe 146 model which has a simple VC at the moment. This is the aircraft of Paul Hannity and it could be found on Avsim.
Paul Hannity and Jon Murchison are working on new aircraft with full VC, means VC with working gauges. Unfortunately I haven't heard anything from Jon's new model and I do not know if he is still working on it. Paul is still working on his new aircraft but I could not say when it is ready.
Great, I'm happy that you could solve the problem with the disengaged AP after takeoff.
Just one thing about the airspeed hold. The autopilot did not hold the airspeed you select with the IAS bug of the airspeed indicator. This bug is just a help for the pilot and it is connected to the Fast / Slow indicator of the ADI but it is not connected with the autopilot. The autopilot always tries to catch and hold the airspeed which was indicated in the airspeed indicator at the moment the IAS button was pressed.
"does this mean i can actually start up and fly a real 146? "
What I could say is that you could handle the systems of the BAe 146 and that you could start up the aircraft. The question if a Flightsimmer could fly a real aircraft when he understand the systems is very often part of different forum topics. Some Flightsimmers say yes and they try to prove this in a full motion simulator. Others say no and argue that it is not enought just know the systems and to know what each switch do. I for myself also don't think that it is possible to fly a real world aircraft just with the experience of the Flightsimulator.
Great, I'm very happy that you like the new Forum too. I'm a bit sad that I had no possibility to save the postings of the old Forum. But I'm sure in just a few months we retrieve the same pool of experience from the Forum members as we had in the last Forum.
The BAe 146 EFIS is not an update of the ARJ or BAe 146 panel. It is a completely new panel.
Just some words about the real thing:
The BAe 146 EFIS was an update for the older BAe 146 panels and an interim solution before the ARJ came out. It was an update especially for those customers who want to have a new cockpit equipment with EFIS displays but without buying a completely new aircraft (the ARJ for example). BAe Systems replaced the electromechanical ADI and HSI with CRT EFIS units and a LED engine information display. Everything else was still from the BAe 146. So it looks like a mix of the old analog BAe 146 and the new ARJ.
You could recognize those cockpits quite easy when you see a photo for example: When you see a BAe 146 cockpit with an EFIS PFD and ND but with an airspeed indicator left beside the ND and the old autopilot, it is an EFIS BAe 146 and not an ARJ. The ARJ uses the new MCP and it has no longer an analog airspeed indicator.
Because of the fact that you see the red off flag (the red line) in the altitude selector just after lift off, I think I know the reason for your problem. It is not a problem of the autopilot itself but of the electrical system. The BAe 146 autopilot uses electrical power from the AC1 and AC2 bus. If either AC1 or AC2 is not available, the AP did not work.
There is now one reason why the AP seems to work on ground (off flag of the altitude selector is not visible) but not after lift off. When the start master switch is on and the APU generator is working, the engine generators are disconnected. The APU generator just could provide power for AC1 and AC2 as long as yoiu are on ground. As soon as you lift off, you lost AC2. When now the start master switch is still on, you're just running with AC1. That's why the AP don't work. BTW: this is not a bug of my panel - it is the same in the real aircraft. Take care to switch off the start master switch after starting the last engine.
I know that the description of those coherences is not very good in the current manual. I've reworked it in the new manual of the upcoming version 4 panel.
Unfortunately version 4 will still take some time. There were a lot of changes necessary after the first betatest. Some of those corrections are very massive why I have to run a further betatest when everything is ready. Of course I will inform here when I have a final release date.
Thank you very much for your posting and for using my ARJ panel. First of all I have to say sorry that I have moved your posting from the old forum to this new one. It was necessary because I didn't had the time to answer you in the old Forum as it was necessary to remove it.
Now to your questions:
The version 3 panel you saw on Avsim is for the BAe 146. The panel you are currently using (version 4.2) is for the Avro ARJ. Both aircraft look similar. However the Avro ARJ is the newer model which has newer engines and a more modern semi digital cockpit. The BAe 146 is the older model with a complete analog cockpit. At the moment version 3.0 is the actual version of the analog BAe 146 panel. I'm currently working on version 4 but it will still take some time until it is ready. If you would like to compare the cockpits just click on the BAe 146 and Avro ARJ link on the left frame of this website.
Thema von Matthias_L im Forum News & Announcements
Hi All,
Welcome to my new support Forum. I've replaced the old Bravenet Forum with this one because it's more comfortable and it has much more functions than the old one.
You could use Avatars (max size 100 x 100 pix) and upload your picture in the profile. It's not necessary to register but when you are a registered user you have the possibility to send private messages to all other Forum members. Also you could create polls and other things when you are a registered user.
Welcome to my new support Forum. I've replaced the old Bravenet Forum with this one because it's more comfortable and it has much more functions than the old one.
You could use Avatars (max size 100 x 100 pix) and upload your picture in the profile. It's not necessary to register but when you are a registered user you have the possibility to send private messages to all other Forum members. Also you could create polls and other things when you are a registered user.