Then I’m missing something … no problem with stock livery or the add-on black/red livery. But supplemental MS Asobo FS2020 liveries boot up with only the stock AP/PFD with the exact same files in the Community folder.
I know some other Working Title apps have trouble with MS’s supplemental liveries.
Any thoughts appreciated.
The black livery (and a bunch of others) is included in the livery megpac (https://liveriesmegapack.com/manager) and was created by SeeRyFly#2310
I have to qualify my comments on such things as I am not a real pilot and I have never been in a real Icon landing on water. I just have a fantasy dream of owning a seawind some day and the Icon is as close to that as it gets.
That said, I have spent a lot of time on the water in various sizes of boats. In the real world, water drag is a highly variable entity that depends on speed, wave size, hull shape, and weight. Small and medium waves (ripples) on the water are like ball bearings. A boat fast enough to plane on them experiences VERY LITTLE friction as the small waves cause bubbles of air to roll under the hull. They make this cool ripply buzzing sound too.
All that is to say that it might be a real challenge to replicate all that complexity in a simulator meant for flight. Personally, I’m quite happy with the way that Pharough’s model works as is.
Cheers!
As mentioned above, this is going to be a problem for you. Water drag is quite variable. It depends on speed, wave size, and also the extent to which the hull drops into the water. Skimming along the surface on plane will have much less drag than a hull that has dropped down into the water. I’d describe it more like a braking effect than a drag effect. Unlike drag, the slower you go, the MORE braking you get.
If you have ever water skied or pulled off the throttle on a boat fast enough to plane, you would have a better understanding of what I mean. As the hull slows, it sinks further into the water which increases the braking effect. The transition from planing on the surface to plowing through the water is somewhat abrupt. It’s not a gradual transition like landing on a runway at all.
I tried various ways to land on water in your model playing with speed and flaps. My sense and my personal opinion is that your model is just fine as it is.
Cheers!
The key is in the panel.cfg directory. The source of the AP is in the panel.xml file. The files may be the exact same names, the contents of the files will not be.
Also some cool liveries at the following links:
https://flightsim.to/file/7309/icon-a5-red-and-black
https://flightsim.to/file/6429/icon-a5-black-and-yellow-w-gold-rims
Thanks, but I can live without messing with those files. If the Working Title folks couldn’t figure out the livery conflicts, I will not try, though I appreciate your assistance.
It’s actually quite easy to fix. You just need to replace the panel.xml file in the livery with the one from this mod. The one from the livery is overwriting it in memory when it loads. There’s nothing the workingtitle people can do about what people load in their community directory. It’s not that they couldn’t figure out how to fix it. They can’t control what people install.
Thank you. I’ll venture forth…
Ok I am at my witts end, been trying to get this to work for a week. I click on the three blank black boxes in the left hand panel and nothing happens. Nor does the Nearest or Direct to buttons on the right hand edge on the window. Click them and nothing happens, so can’t select Nearest or direct to Help me please?
I have placed the two folders into the community folder. Performance and workingtitle
You mentioned only (2) folders, did you also download the required working title package?
The old Icon A5 buttons do not currently work, I want to restore that ability in a future patch but that requires a bit more coding than I have time to do currently - I’ve actually had this exact problem in a car before when changing out the head unit.
Thank you so much, it was that 3rd file you gave me a link too, working fine. Is there a way to get to the Nearest and direct too screen?
Glad that worked! No functionality in the side buttons…yet.
The way the coding is right now we just transplanted the avionics and it’s like the buttons on the side had no matching wires in the new unit. I personally want that functionality badly so hopefully it’ll be in a future update.
Well thank you. You have done a wonderful job, makes the plane much more enjoyable:)
I can live without the Nearest and direct too for a while:)
Thanks
Man , first i want to thank for this mod. I dreamed about it. Now , i have a small pb which i do not understand . the ap works thru my joystick but i can’t find the buttons , i tried to click in the ap area but nothing . something i have missed ?
Welcome to the forums!
Can you actually see the AP buttons, as shown in this screenshot?
If not you may be missing one of the required folders, or have it in the wrong area. A screenshot of your community folder would be helpful for me 
Thank you so much.
i did put the fix folder over the gx but that is not correct.
we need 3 folders in the community folder for the new icon:
Hello, I have installed the mod, and it seems to work ; cruise speed now listed as 95 Kts and it feels more powerful. I am unable to invoke the second screen for the AP by clicking in the indicated area. I can invoke the AP using the Z key, and also the nav control using ctl N. Also not seeing the grayed out symbol on the aircraft selection screen.
Any thoughts?
I am missing * Aircraft-workingtitle-gx-v0.1.0-dev5-workingtitle-gx . Where can I find it?
Thanks for trying it out!
Usually when AP doesn’t work the user is missing a folder, did you download the working title GX mod?
If so, can you give me a screenshot of your community folder? You should have our mod, working title fixes and the original working title package.
