EA Release: Working Title G3X Touch Discussion Thread

I will start by saying that I’m an old timer and still prefer my sixpack to the glass era cockpits and I am struggling to shift my sorry butt into the 21st Century. One of the poorest elements of MSFS, for me at least, is the paucity of aircraft that I would want to fly, so I am very grateful to the Bush League Legends folks for the work that they have done on the XCub. That is what I fly almost exclusively, although the Savage Cub is coming onto the menu a wee bit now too. I enjoy predominantly bush flying and rarely, if ever, fly navaid to navaid or direct airfield to airfield. I find that this limits the usefulness of the MFD on the Garmin, in fact once I have taxied out of a departure airfield I usually go to full screen PFD and use G-Plan on a separate screen to execute any flight plan, if I don’t have physical charts to work with. However, there is one feature of the real life Garmin G3X Touch, that I have failed to function in the Sim so far, that would make it far more useful to me and that is creation and storage of User Defined Waypoints. The Garmin G3X Touch Manual describes several methods of doing this, but they don’t seem to translate onto the Working Title MOD. Am I missing something? If that is not a current feature is it planned to include it at some point in the future? Finally, the Working Title improvements to the G3X Touch have added hugely to my enjoyment of the XCub and to my determination to master modern magic – for me a ‘work in progress’

With the latest update (dev5), I sometimes get the message “TAWS TEST” coming up randomly in the PFD. Anybody else?

Also when I turn the Autopilot off, the AP symbol in the PFD flashes red and doesn’t go off.

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I got the latest version installed in my Community Folder (Working Title GX 0.1.0 dev5) but it does not show up in the default King Air. Am I missing something here?

I don’t, as a rule, use the autopilot and I haven’t flown for almost a week because of broadband problems. I did manage to get loaded up last night and I tried switching the AP on in the XCub and I had the same - a red flashing AP light on the PFD that would not go out. Sadly the broadband connection dropped out again before I could get airborne :angry:

Is this mod for B350i KA?

Just a shot in the dark here…
Have you had any issues with AP engagement on any other aircraft? The first thing that jumped to mind is that the light you mention is the “AP Disengaged” light. It should only come on if the AP is connected and you disconnect. If it comes on when you try to turn on the AP, I would guess that the sim is getting either the “AP DISCONNECT” command from a binding error or the “TOGGLE AP” is repeating when you click it. Check bindings.
Of course, if you don’t have this problem with all aircraft, I just wasted your time.

Thanks for the reply willisxdc. You are correct and I mis described the symptom. I switched the AP on and it was only when I switched it off again that the red flashing light illuminated. As I said I don’t use AP and I only fly XCub and the Savage Cub and mostly through the mountains not over them :wink: I only tried switching the AP because of the post above by Giannino2. Should that AP disengage light continue to flash forever then, or until it is re-engaged anyway, or is there a way to cancel?

You certainly didn’t waste any of my time - there’s plenty of it with very limited broadband - but I may well have wasted yours with my poor description.

:thinking: erm, no idea.

Yes it will continue to flash until re-engaged.
I have not used that system in real life but in general there would be a way to dismiss a warning once it has been acknowledged. I haven’t found it on the Garmin yet. It’s purpose is to notify you if the AP is disengaged by accident.

It works for me in B350

I have the same as @AbsenteeEagle35 and I don’t get the same AP issue with other aircraft, neither default or w/ WT G1000.

Anybody else also seeing the TAWS TEST message?

Hi all,

Must say I’m very much impressed with all the nice mods of Working Title! Keep up the good job!
Just a question / request about the G3X Touch and the Synthetic Vision. Is there a way to turn it off just like in the G1000 and G3000? If so how? And if not, is it possible to implement it?
This is what the Garmin G3X Touch manual says:

“Activating and deactivating synthetic vision:

  1. Touch the Attitude Indicator or HSI to display the PFD Options.
  2. Touch More Options.
  3. Touch and drag to scroll down.
  4. Touch Synthetic Vision to toggle on and off.”

Many thanks in advance!

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Hello guys,

is the G3X still being worked on? As soon as I install the mod (for the VL3) my other WT devices (G1000 AND the G3X) turn black. I can see the instruments but the background map is completely black.

This has happened since the World Update 3

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Mine are full black since the last update :frowning:
No more instruments in VL-3 … deleted to retrieve the base ones.

There has not been an update to the mod yet since the Sim Update 3. Delete this mod and wait for the new version.

I am sure WT will release an update to this mod soon. They already released one for CJ4

i use this mod for the king air, and it still works for me after the update.
wonder what the difference is with the vl-3 (i haven’t tested it).

Thanks interesting, it can’t be in the units code in that case.

There is an update to this after Sim Update 3. It was out yesterday

I can’t see anything new on GitHub. The latest release there ( gx-v0.1.0-dev5) dated from December.