"incorrect heading indicator"

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Hello everbody
Happy first day of FS2020! :smiley:

I had quite a good start with the sim but I constantly get a message of the assistant that I don’t understand.
“incorrect heading indicator: to set the heading indicator, press D”

What is that?
I can press D as much as I want, this message pops up about every 2min during a flight and drives me nuts ^^
What is it?

Also, maby as a related question, I don’t know: All my planes tend to tilt to the right while flying. I always have to counter it slightly to the left. Is that normal?

Thanks a lot,
Oliver

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Hi
Be careful D mean shift+d not just the d key
I had the same problem with altimeter B key

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Yeah it is annoying, and can you turn it off?

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Most likely your heading indicator is misaligned to your compass. This is a common instrument error in the real world and requires correcting before every flight. There should be a small round knob near your heading indicator. Find your magnetic heading from your compass and align your heading indicator to that reading using the knob.

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Wow, thanks!

You see, that’s the kind of thing I’d like the game to teach me!

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I still get the message. Do you need to fix both screens GPS or are thir heading synchronized?

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What aircraft are you flying? This shouldn’t really apply to G1000 planes since they use electronic instruments (people refer to it as AHRS system). For something like a steam gauge 172 there should only be 1 heading indicator. Another easy way pilots correct is to align with the runway and twist your gyro to match the RWY (RWY 14 = 140 degrees magnetic = “14” on the heading indicator)

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cessna 172

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There’s 2 172s. If it’s the non-G1000 version then twist the knob to the runway heading. If it’s the G1000 version I got no idea.

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I was flying the DN40NG when I had this problem… does it make sense? Or why does this happen with this plane?

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What’s weird though, is that during a 10 min or so flight with a Cessna 172 (w gauges) it keeps drifting all the time, and I need to reset it with “D” every 1-2 min.
Even though I have “gyro drift autocalibration” on in the assistance menu

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Edit: I found it massively starts drifting (like I can see it moving even) when using Active Pause. During flight it stays normal

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Hi, same for me, drift when use active pause.

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I am experiencing the same with a Cessna 172 (G1000). It doesn’t matter what position I keep my heading the message keeps appearing. Maybe I’m missing something… I didn’t try pressing SHIFT + D, but manually changing the heading. I am navigating with the GPS.

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Active pause plays havoc with the compass drift. I resync my compass whenever resuming from active pause.

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How do you resync the compass then? “D”?
That usually does not help me…
But yeah I also got the feeling it’s active pause that causes these problems.

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I get the same message. The strange thing is I am in “Easy” mode. In “Easy” mode there should be no indicator drift.

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Man, they think we are all retarded…how come press D means press shift+D ??? Beyond my comprehension…tks for the tip

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I’m not so sure about the “Shift + D”, I think it’s cleary just “D”.
The problem is “active pause”.
As soon as you enter that mode once during a flight, the heading indicator goes nuts in many planes.
I noticed that when you just go into the normal, “real” pause mode, it works just fine.
Funny enough though you have to assign the normal real pause mode to a key. Because it does not have a short cut preset.
So, as someone else wrote here in the forum somewhere, set “p” and “ctrl p” to the actual pause function (and to end it).
Avoid “active pause”, it cause things to go crazy.

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Does anyone know of a way to turn this off?