With the greatest of respect …
we did not produce this to be an Air Cargo Carriers product ..
There are Several variants included and to be frank .. 90% Of these didn’t have a Gps (of any type) nor even an Autopilot in most cases.
We included what We believed to be appropriate for the Aircraft and its Age and not wishing to offend anyone, Its not a Major task for a user to add whatever they want..
We do NOT Believe that not including a Modern GPS is “ABSURD”
I am pretty sure that someone out there has added a 750 to their Curtiss jenny or whatever because one exists in the real world somewhere and that’s their choice.
It was our choice to omit it and add a more period AS400
In RPN scripting, aka, what AAO and SPAD is using to set variables, you would use the > symbol to set a variable. Because XML can’t handle that, it is written as > instead. RPN syntax of something like 1 (>L:variable_that_does_things) turns into 1 (>L:variable_that_does_things).
I took a look at this plane this morning. Have you tried using the event STARTER1_SET and STARTER2_SET for the starter? It’s a standard MSFS event, not a BVAR. Setting it to 1 seems to activate the starter and 0 stop it. 1 will actually move the switch animation to start but 0 won’t move the switch although it does seem to work. Not sure how SPAD does it, but in AAO I would use:
1 (>K:STARTER1_SET)
1 (>K:STARTER2_SET)
0 (>K:STARTER1_SET)
0 (>K:STARTER2_SET)
Devmode shows that the BVAR should be B:ENGINE_Starter_1, number) but I couldn’t get that to do anything but using the K event above works. I’m still checking the ignition for you.
Fair enough. Valid reasons to stick with the ‘historical’ GPS options. Looks like it’s a favourite plane now for a lot of us. Maybe go ultra-modern next and do the Cessna SkyCourier?
The next step up in the British classic prop line would have to be an HS748, horrible noisy things , but there are still some flying in Canada I believe
PM if you need other planes as this thread is for the Shorts. I have all the things working for the Caribou, Twin Otter, Islander, Blksq 208, Blksq KA and Blksq TBM.
ha, yes !
I suppose they were quite popular in their day, quite a successful export.
I used to fly them years ago, and for a short time I flew them as night freighters in the U.K., and we’d work alongside the shorts 360s.
I’ve been quite surprised flying your 360 in the sim how much more modern it was compared to the old HS748, which shared some parts with the lancaster!
At least the 748 was pressurised, although it didn’t work properly most of the time, you had to manually control the dump valve lever with your foot to slowly let the air out when on approach.
Those night freighters brought a literal meaning to the term “cold and dark” cockpit.
and I’m not aware of anyone working on one.
ha, yes !
