Make sure you have all of the WT options available from the Marketplace, with the possible exception of the TBM enhancement. Then go to your Content Manager and make sure that there are no WT that are not installed. There are a couple of items in there that bridge the newer avionics into 3rd party aircraft.
Thank you very much.
Be careful with the update you may need to check it works because the new G3x suite is really different, WT made a LOT of changes to the G3x touch and now it is really an awesome piece of avionics and that’s why I asked you if the planes were using this avionics and not the old one. It is a day vs night difference!
The W10 with the new G3X will be a beast, looking forward to fly that!
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Yep… I am working on that now. Just chatted with WT on how to configure the new system. Totally different.
Kind of sad that they couldnt just make it retrofit, zero handling, with same name. Here, its renamed, has additional components, model settings in the model XML, etc. A lot of reconfiguring. But at least I have a plane (XCub) as a template to go by to see how its done.
But… Grumbling aside, it looks nice! I look forward to doing some flights with it to see how it does.
Note: I will be updating the Tailwinds and the Tailwind Bush Model as soon as possible. I am presently testing the package in MS. Once in-house testing is done with this new panel, I will then upload and run its MS Store testing and then I can ship it out. Will probably be 3 weeks.
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Thanks a lot for taking the time to upgrade the avionics. Really appreciated.
When you see how well the new G3x touch suits the W10 you will be amazed, it will be a complete different plane.
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Heads up and progress report on the G3X. Adding this new unit has proven to be difficult.
First, it took quite a few battles to get it fully working. It seems they at wt have been changing the way autopilots work. For instance, the settings in the system config changed. If you do not find the new settings, your AP will not work. Copying out the system config / autopilot section got it to work, but if you reload, its broke again.
Second, I found a bug in the system. The Autopilot will not function in the plane if you reload your aircraft or restart the flight. This is grim for developers because thats all we do is reload, reload, reload, reload, all day long, testing, adjusting, adjusting, testing… grim…
I am having to restart testing once again at Microsoft… I just found this newest bug today and have reported it to MS.
(This is why I like the older versions… they work fine… )
Please be patient. Most of you do not ever need to reload the plane or flight, so it usually will not happen to you. On the side of testers and developers, its a huge bug.
Note… When your AP bar turns solid dark blue, with no section separators, your AP system is offline. Sometimes the separators do show, but nothing turns on, nothing shows. Buttons work fine. Thats a clue, besides buttons not working when it goes into its sleep mode.
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I think there are two options, but I forget their names, and I’m not at my sim to check. One is on the “Behaviors” window, something like quick reload. Then I think on the aircraft editor there is an option called “resync” or something close to that. Does the issue occur for both?
@LyonHaart001 Hey. As mentuioned in the Quickie topic, I managed to run the Tailwinds in 2024 (sounds work) but I noticed a few oddities with both of the screens.
Main panel:
- Fuel PSI is awlays at the far right
- Oil PSI is always ion the first orange zone (I reported this before in 2020 and I think you never fixerd it)
- The refresh of the synthetic viision is oddly not smooth - it moves in varying speed “chunks” that I have not noticed in other aircraft. I do have the Glass Cockpit Refresh on Low, but this is something different. SU1 Public.
Engine monitor:
- Initial message on starting is a HIGH CHT warning in red (this was also the case in 2020 but I think you never fixed it?)
- Digital needle on MAP is always at this top poisiton
- No CHT bars (but they are on the main G1000(?) unit!)
- No (2) digital needles on the Oil gauges
- No digital needle on the Fuel Pressure gauge
- WARMUP message stays on here after I cyuclce away the CHT warning using the right button.
- Probably more that I am not noticing (on both hehe)
Thanks for your time!
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I need to make you a test pilot!
I wonder why all the bugs. I wonder if they changed versions and I now have missing bits. You say these (some of them?) werent working in 2020?
Right now I am releasing some other updates, and then I can come back to this. Many many thanks for your documenting this. Will help me out a great deal.
Bill
LHC
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No worries. Yeah I told you about the oil readout before if you remember. Think you said you’d fix it but never did in 2020.