PMS50 GNS530 mod

N6722C · February 14, 2021, 1:10am

Most likely cause of this is something overriding your plane’s Panel.cfg, or a corruption.

Easiest way to fix it is to:-

Delete the C172 Classic aircraft via the CONTENT MANAGER (do not manually delete files in Official !!)
Shut down MSFS
Temporarily remove all content in COMMUNITY ( copy it and save it somewhere OUTSIDE of the MSFS folder structure)
Re-Start MSFS
Re-download and install the C172 Classic via Content Manager
Test it and make sure radios now act independently.

Then you can start adding back other content into Community (while MSFS is not running !!)

FlyingsCool5650 · February 14, 2021, 9:02pm

You may not be using a GPS mod that affects the 530 mod, but you are using a Livery for the C172 Classic. It’s because the Livery does not have the appropriate panel.xml file it needs. You can get the panel.xml file from the MSFS Aviator’s livery. Don’t forget to add the file to the livery’s layout.json.

N6722C · February 15, 2021, 4:12pm

Excellent point !!! (Of course !! )

N6722C · February 17, 2021, 1:09pm

Look like the UK Update (2/16/2021) has done nothing to affect the GNS530 Mod ?

Still appears (to me) to run as before.

Looking at the Asobo “Brief” Update notes, it does not like anything done in the update “should” affect the GNS530 or the GNS530 Mod, good or bad.

Maybe “Sim Update 3” ( sometime March 2021 ?), will address some of the issues still restricting some functionality of the GNS530.

Sometimes it is difficult to get a “Big Picture” of all these MSFS Updates, because each one is posted in a different thread.

To help myself keep track (any anyone else interested), I have made an “Unofficial” Thread listing all the MSFS Updates that occur each year.

If nothing else, it makes searching for a particular update item, far easier, as they are all, in one Post.

ScorpionFilm422 · February 17, 2021, 1:29pm

The main changes will probably occur with the sim update 3 in march.

hobanagerik · February 17, 2021, 1:39pm

I used it for a few flights yesterday in the 172, and it worked flawlessly.

N6722C · February 17, 2021, 1:47pm

Anyone with the C172 Steam Gauge version, GNS530 Mod and “YourControls” interested in testing the GNS530 Mod with “YourControls”

(USA Eastern time, evenings or weekend) Discord Voice Coms really a must for this.

dfl1010 · February 18, 2021, 1:02pm

Getting a CTD on loading up.
Seems to be a conflict between the 530 mod and navigraph - remove one or the other, and it’s fine, but both together causes a CTD.
So far only tested with the Carenado Seminole and Asobo C172, as I’ve run out of time to test with others today.

Latest version of the mod (downloaded from github earlier today).

hobanagerik · February 18, 2021, 5:33pm

Both were working for me the last few days.

GNS530 V 1.0.27
Navigraph AIRAC Cycle 2101 rev.2

I’ve flown the steam 172 a lot with both of those, and the Seminole was spawned just to test something for another user, but it did not CTD all the same.

dutchsim010 · February 18, 2021, 5:37pm

You are sure you did download the correct version? I once downloaded accidentally the source code. So maybe check that… For me I have no problems at all with the latest version and the C172 and Mooney. Seminole I do not have.

dfl1010 · February 18, 2021, 5:55pm

Yeah, got the .zip off GitHub. Works fine without the navigraph folder in community. With it, it gets as far as the Garmin splash screen then ctd. Will try the Mooney when I get back from work but I suspect the same outcome

ScorpionFilm422 · February 18, 2021, 6:05pm

Are you sure you have downloaded the release and not the source code?
You have a link in the documentation where you are sure to get the proper version (not the github one).

dfl1010 · February 18, 2021, 6:11pm

Almost certain. Will check when I get home

dfl1010 · February 18, 2021, 6:13pm

It’s this link I’ve got
https://pms50.com/fs2020/gns530/pms50-gns530.zip

Under latest release on the gh

ScorpionFilm422 · February 18, 2021, 7:57pm

This is the correct link.
Could you give more information in order to reproduce the issue: airport, initial flight plan, etc…
Do you have some other Mods installed?

PistonSeaplane · February 19, 2021, 5:26pm

Just learning about this - very excited to try it out in the Mooney, thank you!

dfl1010 · February 19, 2021, 10:06pm

I’ve tried to recreate again, and now I can’t. Navigraph updated to a newer version of the AIRAC data (rev.3 vs rev.1), but otherwise no changes.

Don’t know if it was a glitch in the previous Navigraph data, or maybe a symlink went wonky (I backed up the Community folder and emptied it for the world update), but I’ve done three or four long flights, both from C&D and spawned on the runway, in various planes, and it won’t crash on me. Strange, but better than the alternative.

N6722C · February 20, 2021, 12:58am

NEXT version of LNM will create .pln file that have the required airport assocaited with fixes (if applicable), so they will then load correctly in MSFS ( ie load correctly in GNS530 Mod)

Just tested a Pre-Release – works great …

fpl2.pln (9.6 KB) generated for MSFS by Pre-Release.

MSFS 2020 Flight plane exported from LNM (pre release, next update), with correct airport associated with fixes – Loads correctly now into GNS530 Mod !!

This flight plan includes both fixes associated with airports, as well as fixes that are not associated with airport.

Both type now are generated correctly for MSFS by LNM (thanks albar965 )

KevyKevTPA · February 20, 2021, 6:23pm

Now if only I had even the first clue how to use LNM in the first place! I have it, it’s installed, and I’ve even turned it on a handful of times, but haven’t found a good source of how to use info anywhere. Then again, I shouldn’t complain too much because I haven’t looked all that hard, either.

BachFrosch85590 · February 20, 2021, 6:49pm

There is a great user manual: Little Navmap User Manual — Little Navmap User Manual