Project Airbus – Talk

hvw

Hello Francois,
Unfortunately I will have very little time or no time at all for the period to come to do some testing. However, I will try whenever possible in that period to do some Airbus FMC testing. Will keep you posted.

Best regards,
Hans

hvw

Hi Francois, Thanks for getting back so swiftly. I have installed the new DLL and very briefly have given it a go. With this new DLL installed I can now enter values into the fields of the FMS. I unfortunately haven't had the time, yet, to do some test flights, will do so the coming days. Thanks for...

hvw

All previous versions (P3Dv2.2 and earlier) worked correctly. It's only with the latest version (2.3) that the discrepancies showed up.

hvw

Hi Francois,

As suggested by you I reinstalled the C++ libraries, but unfortunately that didn't help. I'll be hearing from you when you heard from Tom Aguillo then.

Best,
Hans

hvw

Yes, XMLVars.dll was in the folder, however, it wasn't included in my dll.xml yet. After including it, it appeared that P3Dv2.3 doesn't like XMLVars.dll at all as it immediately aborts.
Unfortunately after many attempts I can't get xmlvars.dll to load successfully.

Hans

hvw

Hey Francois,

Yes, LoggerX is in the modules folder. To make sure, I refreshed it with a new copy. Still can't enter any numbers in the FMS. (Contrary to what I mentioned before, the flightplan is being displayed).

Hans

hvw

Francois, No, I am not sure that the problem is caused by FSUIPC 4.36. The reported phenomenon only started with P3Dv2.3, previous versions of P3D didn't have this problem at all. It indeed might be the LoggerX.dll, as I installed P3Dv2.3 in another folder. WIll check later or tomorrow and inform yo...

hvw

Hello Francois,

Bad news! The FMC doesn't work in P3D v2.3 and FSUIPC 4.36. The flight plan is not being displayed and it is impossible to insert data into the FMC:(
I suspect that one or more hooks in FSUIPC don't work, perhaps you can contact Pete Dowson on this matter?

Hans

hvw

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

Hans

hvw

Thank you very much for all your efforts, Francois. What to do with the FD_FMS folder? Can that one deleted now?

Best,
Hans

hvw

Hi Francois, >> I think that you had a change of atmospheric pressure just before land.<< You may very well be correct here. I'll pay extra attention to this on my next flights and check if the pressure just before touchdown still is the correct one. >>It is a problem in FSX<< I don't use FSX, in P3...

hvw

It only occurred to me first with version "j" that doing auto lands are pretty hard, unlike with previous versions. The plane doesn't follow the glideslope anymore as of >= 50ft AGL, I blamed the disconnection of the A/P for that being disabled at the same time as A/THR is being disabled. Did you al...

hvw

Hi Francois,

I have noticed that both autopilot and auto throttle are being disabled some 50 ft AGL while on approach (auto land). Did you include this as a new feature in version "j" ?

Best regards,
Hans

hvw

Hi Francois,

Unfortunately I only was able to make a very short test flight using version "j", but so far all looks very good.

Best,
Hans

PS: On July 16 all still working fine.

hvw

Hi Francois,

>>Code is modified. DH and MDA can now set to 50ft minimum.<<

Very good ! Thanks.

Hans

hvw

Thanks, Francois. According to A320's FCOM the minimum decision height for a CAT3 landing is 50ft. It would be great if you could set the minimum to that value and upwards, too.

Best,
Hans

hvw

No problem, Francois, take your time. Would be nice, though, if one can enter DH himself in those cases where no data in your database is available or in those cases where no data from your database is being used.

Hans

hvw

No, I didn't use the left/right mouse button, but I used the mouse wheel. Minimum value for DH to achieve by using the mouse wheel is 200ft. But thanks for letting me know, anyway. And hey, no need to SHOUT at me, I am only human

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Hans

hvw

Hi Francois,

Would it be possible, if you've got time for it, to lower minimum DH from 200 ft to 50 ft? (CAT III)

Thanks,
Hans

hvw

Good to hear that you solved the DES thingy, thanks. Now, I don't know XML, but allow me to give a suggestion to "split" the STAR in two in an "easy" way. If you can determine where a STAR ends and a APPR begins, then just add the entire STAR to the flight plan and after having done that, delete the...

hvw

Hi Francois, >>You will see what I can do about the DES reading on the Upper ECAM (this is because you didn't load an approach)<< It's no problem at all, I just observed that the upper ECAM wasn't in sync. No problem at all. >>Load an approach without a STAR is difficult to do. << And here, too, no ...

hvw

Hi Francois, Just finished a EGSS-LIRF flight and all went well, the FMC is functioning correctly so far. Only discrepancy I found is that the Upper ECAM keeps displaying "DES' while I am on approach, the lower ECAM displays correct data. Just another question. Would it be possible to split up the S...

hvw

Thanks, Francois, later today I'll report back to you on my findings.

Hans

hvw

I am running Francois's FMS on WIndows 8.1 x64 without a glitch. No problems in regards to operating system functionalities.

Hans

hvw

fdd_fr wrote:
I think that I have solved the bugs in end of descent without STAR/Approach.

That's great news, Francois !!

Hans

hvw

Francois,

Just for your information, the workaround by disabling FMC works perfectly.

Hans

hvw

Hi Francois, No apologies whatsoever are necessary, I am glad that you found the cause of the problem. Perhaps the loss of speed also can be caused by the bugs that you found. Let's just wait and see what happens after you changed the code and we pick it up from there if this "speed loss" still exis...

hvw

Francois, Good to hear that you found something that might point towards a solution. It is only in most cases that the speed drops drastically when in selected mode, sometimes the speed is just maintained on a value not determined by me, but by other means. Don't know which. I do need to descend in ...

hvw

Hi Wulf, >>Hans@looking into your last pic I found, that - under THR IDLE mode no speed range (magenta colour) is indicated in the PDF. Below one pic, which highligths this. - DES and CZS indications are superimposed. In the case of panel updates and to avoid panel fragment mixtures from different v...

hvw

Francois, I don't understand this either. I just can't think of a cause why the plane don't want to go from THR IDLE to SPEED mode. As you can see in both screenshots I uploaded, the speed obviously is not getting managed in any way. At the EDDC approach the speed keeps at 160 knots where it should ...

hvw

Yes, Francois, both CFM and IAE are version 0.77h.

Do you want me to change anything in those files?

Hans

hvw

Hi Francois, Yes, I do have this issue since a couple of versions, I think but am not sure, that all this started since you made some modifications after Wulf's ILS problem. I don't think P3D is to blame, as other FMS-equipped aircraft that I have are performing flawlessly where approaches and landi...

hvw

Francois, I do know that an Airbus is not intended for short flights, if I want to do short flights, I rent a Cessna :) Anyway, at EHAM it is not rare not to use any STAR but use radar vectors, also it is common place that ATC will ask you to expedite descent so breaking out of managed mode is quite...

hvw

And here's the screenshot:

hvw

Francois, I reached my descent altitude som 35 nm before my destination. The aircraft simply didn't get out of DES. I waited and waited to no avail. I didn't attempt to correct anything and so the plane crashed. Below you'll find the generated .csv file. In a separate message I will paste a screensh...

hvw

I will do a quick EGSS-EHAM flight, and send you the required data right after that.

Hans

hvw

Thanks, Francois, here comes the screenshot:

When you scroll to the right you see the remainder of the cockpit.

Hans

hvw

Francois,

I do have a perfect screenshot, showing all relevant information, for you, but I do not know how to upload this screenshot. Can you please inform me how to upload/paste a screenshot in a message?

Hans

P.S. I have FMS!debug gauge activated for the next flight (tomorrow)

hvw

Hi Francois, A few minutes ago I finished yet another EGGW-EDDC flight. It indeed now is possible to control speed below 20,000ft. Well done. But...I still have a problem to control the speed below 10,00ft, as a matter of fact the speed is quite uncontrollable and slows down almost to enter stall co...

hvw

In my opinion setting TOD is not all that important when you are using ATC, either on- or offline. ATC will inform you when to start your descend, no matter how far away you are from your destination. Bear in mind that ATC will not let you descend from your cruise level straight to the user designat...

hvw

Hi hans, Your Autopliot and A/THR was disabled : "Autopilot engaged : ","0." "AutoThrottle engaged : ","0." "Autopilot Hold Altitude : ","0." "Autopilot Altitude Lock : ","0." "Autopilot heading value : ","250." "Autopilot Heading Lock : ","0." "Autopilot GPS Drives NAV1 : ","0." "Autopilot Nav Loc...

hvw

Hello francois, Today the "loss in speed while on approach" phenomenon happened again on a EGGW-EDDC flight. Below I'll paste the contents of the .csv file. Hans "Aircraft Ident","Airbus","A320" "Save Flight Plan","1." "Departure Aircraft Position","1.","26" "Flight Plan File",,"C:\\users\\hans\\doc...

hvw

fdd_fr wrote:
And I try to add a function to a user select target altitude of the end of the descent when no STAR loaded.

I hope that will content you.

Francois

Sounds great, Francois !

Hans

hvw

OK, Francois. No problem at all on the ALT function. Now the reason that my selected speed below 10,000ft doesn't work as expected might be the fact that I inserted some waypoints between the last generated flight plan waypoint and the destination runway. I don't use a STAR because for my destinatio...

hvw

Hi Francois, Thanks for getting back to me with this information. Now that we know that the coding in managed mode is incorrect, it all makes sense. It is the cause of my questions about ALT :). OK, as far as I am concerned you do not need to change the code, as longs as we know how to handle the ai...

hvw

I need to know more information : Is the aircraft that decrease its speed, but the speed bug on the ASI has a higher value ? or the speed bug on the ASI was at 140 kts ? Francois, The descent was in speed selected mode. After I set the speed to 180 kts (and pulled the speed button) the aircraft dec...

hvw

Great news, Francois. You know, sometimes even giving "full throttle" (TOGA) didn't help and I reached 140 kts very closely while descending. Passengers started to panic and looking for their parachutes

Hans

hvw

Francois, Did you perhaps change something in the latest version that makes controlling speed while descending lower than 10,000ft more difficult? I did some flights with this latest version and while descending below 10,000ft (speed in both selected or managed mode) the aircraft's speed is going lo...

hvw

Hello Francois, Here's my understanding of the ALT thingy. (As it was in A310-200, but things might have been changed since the FBW-age). When flying in managed mode, no matter whether you are at cruise level or not, FMS takes care of your altitude. When you pull the button, you no longer are in man...

hvw

Francois, Your work is very much appreciated, you have done a great job. And really, if something is too complex to be altered, don't worry, leave it as it is. All is working fine now, and I am sure everybody will like your FMS. I don't have Notepad++ but you really don't want me to fiddle with your...

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