Strange Problem with attitude indicator

[Steve Waite]

OK - in your own good time - I appreciate your help as always.

[reecemj]

404 error in link to 25B. Link dead.

[Steve Waite]

Sorry, I uploaded Preview 25 which went up on Friday lunchtime which superceded 25b as that was an interim version.

[Steve Waite]

What I have noticed in some installations is that the computer can be closed down before Prepar3D has finished closing. In those situations, with Windows 10, Prepar3D is still running in a reduced form when the computer is restarted. So then we start a flight with Ideal Flight and we might get certain issues. One being that we might see a message to say that a version of the simulator is already running, and another might be that the flight file or the plan file has an issue. Then after restarting the simulator all is well again. Maybe check that the simulator is fully closed before switching off the PC by running Task Manager and looking down the list of processes for Prepar3D, the list of programs may not show Prepar3D running so the process list below programs must be checked as well.

The only difference in Preview 25 is that the plan includes the full <appversion> block with four entries as previously described. Earlier versions only had two items in the block as they do in P3D v2/3, P3D v4/5 plans include four items.

I'm not sure if your aircraft looks for a certain appversion value in that block for the desired operation of the attitude gauge. That might be a possible cause of the problem.

[Steve Waite]

...I wondered if you had made a plan with the Simulator and tested that. Also try an IF plan without the computed approach and IDF (Mission page) which represent waypoints that do not exist in the navigation data.

Also if still a problem, can you try testing an IF plan made from the stock scenery, e.g. without fsAerodata set in the sim and no AIRAC included in Ideal Flight.

[Steve Waite]

There was one other change in v5 whereby the AceXML version changes to 5,0.

<SimBase.Document Type="AceXML" version="5,0">

This is pretty much unimportant to the operation of the gauges but I've updated that just in case in 26b:

Preview 26b interim version:

Ideal Flight Professional P3D v4/5

So now the plan output is strictly identical in P3D v5 and Ideal Flight.

(If this interim version becomes unavailable, that will be because Preview 26 proper is uploaded and will be found in the normal locations.)

[Steve Waite]

...I wondered if you had time to test your Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 by loading a sim generated plan?

I've not found problems with any plans in any aircraft, although I've not tested your model I don't have a demo. There was an update 18th May 2020 and some new features also a new manual came out 12th June 2020.

[Steve Waite]

6/August/2020:

Preview build 26:

Ideal Flight Professional P3D v4/5

[reecemj]

The problem may be with the rxp 750 gtn. I will do more testing this weekend.

[Steve Waite]

OK!