OK, thanks … Asobo still have a lot to learn about aviation !!!
You can’t prevent aging, but you can act immature for as long as you want. 
(BTW, almost 50 myself).
And to remain on topic. YAY GNS530!!! It’s awesome!
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As we go into 2021, would you care to share with us your thought on where you want to take your GNS530 mod this year.
In particular, how close you want to make it to the RW unit, or if you just want to make what is there in MSFS , function correctly.
Are you interested in making the Pages that you do have, look like the RW unit, or instead be a MSFS designed SIM version…
For example, nearest airport. FREQ
The MOD does not have freq displayed in same way.
Mod has variable DP, Real unit always display to 3 DP
Mod Flashes 2-3 time faster than RW unit, with equal mark space.
RW unit is about 3 times slower, and the Reverse Video is on for about twice the time of the normal non-reversed video.
(Easy code values change if that is where you want to go )
I do not think the RW unit distinguishes between CTF and uni, but whatever is there, uni, twr is always in lower case.
So, is this the sort of thing you would like reported to you, or only major BUGS. like Crashes, and text formatted outside of its allocated area.
What you have done with the GNS530 is amazing, and I;d like to take time to support & send in feedback, – just would like a better idea where you want to take the GNS530 MOD, and how much detail you want to try to reproduce,
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The most important is functionality.
The sim still has some issues. The workarounds may solve them in much situation but not completly (ex adding waypoints sometimes not working or waypoints removed after activating approach).
This is priority.
Missing functionality is also a top priority (ex OBS if the kernel gives me the functionality).
Cosmetics things are importants but less. This stays a simulator. Now I’m happy if they are reported and I can fix them also as soon as it doesn’t require changing too much code (risk of side effects). For example changing the font is a no go for now.
For airport frequencies, I can fix the 3 digits display and the uppercase issue. The data itself (ex CTF) comes from the kernel and I cannot change that (by what?).
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Here is a Formatting issue ( I mentioned a few weeks ago, but at the time, did not give specific details)
Reproduce:
Place aircraft at KMTN and look at “Nearest Airspaces”
Unfortunately, some airports have VERY LONG names … !!
Little Navmap has a database of the MSFS airports. Mine is located in:
C:\Users<yourr name>\AppData\Roaming\ABarthel\little_navmap_db\little_navmap_msfs.sqlite
You would need a sqlite reader to translate this to a CSV file, and then you can parse that CSV file for the data you’d like.
The fields are Name, City, state, region.
Strange that Baltimnore - Martin State is showing both CITY & NAME
Thanks.
You earned 5 stars for bug reporting!!!
Perfect information for me to reproduce and fix your issue in less than 2 minutes.
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Well, thank you – if only I could fix all MY own bugs that quickly 
It ironic … I have started to compare your GNS530, with the Garmin Trainer, side -by -side, in some detail, and in most case, when I find any significant difference, I prefer your GNS530 version over the official Garmin one !!!
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Just curious if it’s a known bug or me simply not doing something…but sometimes, the vnav just won’t activate for me. I’ll enter all my parameters and then press enter, and nothing happens. Most of the time it works just fine, however sometimes I just can’t get it to activate and start a countdown.
First of all great job ! thank you for this wonderful mod !
Also got a question… Is there any plan to incorporate weather and traffic in to this mod ?
Thank you
They are both in it, in as much as the GNS530 supports both. In fact he extended it further than the actual one does by adding weather radar if you turn on an option in the config file. You can also get a key so it will download the latest METAR from the web (crapshoot, however, it matches ATIS at the airport, however 
Make sure you scroll through the pages. Turn the right little knob for the current page type (like route, maps, elevation maps in the maps page), and turn the right big knob to choose between different types of pages (Maps, Waypoints, Config/METAR I think it is).
I don’t believe anyone has implemented TCAS (for multiplayer traffic) yet.
SDK to date has no support ?
The VNAV has no physical action. It’s just a software tool to help you define your top of descent. It’s up to you to physically descent to the target WP.
The target VNAV waypoint must be part of your flight plan and it must be the next waypoint or any waypoint after it.
If you are already at the target altitude (±100ft) or below it, the VNAV will do nothing.
If your ground speed is less than 35 knots, no action too.
You can consult the GNS530 official documentation section 11 for further information about VNAV.
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Please can you confirm that there is no TCAS ( AI planes or Multiplayers Planes) currently implemented in the Asobo GNS530, or your Mod.
I think someone is seeing things ? (To much Egg Nog over the Holidays ? )
That aside, it looks like the SDK does support AI Planes, but not MP Planes (yet).
Is TCAS on your future “maybe” to do list ?
OK…maybe it’s because I’m trying to set it up too early with waypoints that are 4 or 5 away then.
No, it should work as soon as your waypoint is a future waypoint in your flight plan.
If you think you have an issue, please read the “reporting bug” section in the readme file and give me the required information.
Original GNS530 have TIS instead of TCAS (but the display result should be the same).
TRAFFIC information is available in the Sim and TCAS indicator is used only in the A320. Now the A320 seems to just display TCAS conditions based on proximity (altitude and distance) but not on a collision perspective (no heading analysis). I can see that in the code but didn’t test it in the A320.
The second map page of the MOD gives real traffic but with no collision information. I just ask the sim for that by a flag and I don’t know what kind of traffic we have really here (real, other users, AI).
Anyway, I think I should be able to implement some kind of TRAFFIC page as described in section 14 of the 530 documentation. The problem is that it requires a new map instrument and we’ll reach the maximum number of map instruments per aircraft(4). Now, this map doesn’t display a map but just a range circle around the plane, so maybe it will work. I have to test that.
Another solution can be to turn the map page traffic info into TCAS mode by the menu. At this time, we use the same map but only display aircraft that meet the TCAS collision criteria.
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Thanks … ( so not too much Egg Nog !!)
That’s something I can do to help … I’ll check it out with AI Planes, MP Planes, and RW Injected Planes, and let you know what it does.
If it does MP traffic, that will be very interesting to see how !!!
Is there any way to access the Group/Page knob to control it with something besides the mouse?? FSUIPC? Offset?
Would you consider updating the ASOBO “PROCEDURES” page to have the screen split, and show the Loaded Approach, Arrival, and Departure.
Would greatly help when on that page, seeing what Procedure is already loaded, and is available for potential activation.
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ASOBO (current)
Real World
Theoretically, this should be possible from a simconnect external software since the events for selecting groups and pages are part of the SDK documentation.