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Post by beeker46 on Jun 13, 2019 18:39:45 GMT -5
I see the gauge on the throttle quadrant, with the two switches...I throw both switches and nothing changes. I look in the aircraft.cfg file and see the entry that enables supercharging, and click the switches off and on repeatedly (out of frustration) and still nothing happens. Am I to understand that the supercharging gauge simply does not work in FSX? On the same subject, is the fuel planner notepad. In FS9 when I had the parking brakes on, I would hear that low rumble and could click the entries on the notepad and the fuel amount would be set. In FSX, under the same conditions (parking brake set and all switches turned off), there is no low rumble and the fuel notepad does not seem to work. Pity, I really liked that feature, too...
Is this just something FSX won't allow, or is there something, somewhere I need to tweak to get both of these systems to respond appropriately in FSX as they did in FS9? The view and panel problem was easily solved, perhaps this is another case of number manipulation that I am unaware of...?
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Jun 13, 2019 19:26:43 GMT -5
Hi,
Have you downloaded a recent copy of the 240 CA-18 and installed both the FS2004 Base Pack (Setup.exe) and then the FSX Overlay (Setup_FSX.exe)? They are both installers now.
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Post by beeker46 on Jun 13, 2019 19:45:25 GMT -5
I have done that, a few days ago. I ran the FSX setup twice, once while the fs9 -240 was still in the 'aircraft' folder, and then ran it again after I moved the -240 to the proper location in FSX... Is there a specific order to the process? ie. run the 2004 setup, move the files to the proper location, run the FSX setup, or something else? But since I ran the FSX setup twice would have hit the FS2004 files both times, so it should have 'stuck' on either installation....
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Jun 13, 2019 20:28:47 GMT -5
Currently you run the FS2004 setup (manually browsing to the main FSX folder), then run the FSX setup, and finally move the folders to the SimObjects/Airplanes folder.
Do you have FSUIPC installed? The freeware version should be fine.
I just installed the 240 into FSX, and loaded the AAL 240 (the CalClassic version). The superchargers increase the MAP and the fuel loads/unloads.
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Post by beeker46 on Jun 13, 2019 21:35:04 GMT -5
I just downloaded and installed the -240 with the process you described... I will check and make sure FSUIPC is installed, I think it is, but I can never be sure these days... and try again.
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Post by beeker46 on Jun 13, 2019 21:52:57 GMT -5
FSUIPC (freeware) IS installed, double checked that, and still the fuel planner does not automatically load/unload fuel. When I first load up the -240 is reads that I have no fuel at all onboard. I have not done anything with the aircraft.cfg file, either. The fuel planner does give me to required amounts that I should have for a given flight, but it does not automatically adjust the fuel load on its own (like it did in FS9). I have every switch turned off, parking brakes set, and nothing happens with that. Not any more tonight, but tomorrow I will take it for a spin and see if those supercharger switches work, or not...
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Jun 13, 2019 23:39:36 GMT -5
The supercharger switches will work on the ground, just rev up the engines a bit and throw them.
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Post by beeker46 on Jun 14, 2019 12:33:25 GMT -5
Still no luck on the fuel planner (other than displaying the amount of fuel needed, and not adjusting itself-a minor point), the supercharger switches still do not work (no change in MAP at all) and now the prop reverse will not work (it did yesterday, I backed the -240 away from the terminal with them). Puzzling, to say the least, but the aircraft still flies wonderfully, just have to watch the speed decay and level off earlier than I used to. Now, would fiddling with the panel and some of the gauges (as in '/' them out) affect these things I am having trouble with? I do not think I removed anything of importance, but I might have...so more testing. I will again download a fresh install of the aircraft and remove any and all previous -240 files and see if that changes anything... In my zeal to tweak the panel I might have 'disengaged' something important...
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Post by beeker46 on Jun 14, 2019 13:20:29 GMT -5
alright, fresh install and everything works as intended...I must have screwed up something before, typical of me... so, all is good after all. Now, just to apply a few 'fixes' (ie. the panel/view issue) and see how things shake out. Thanks, Tom for all your patience with my usual ham-fisted tendencies to 'fix' things...
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Jun 14, 2019 14:32:56 GMT -5
Hi, Glad to hear it.
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