–I downloaded to 208 Mod and cannot get it to work. First there is a file for the working title g1000 that has to be subsituted. I could not find the path which I believe was to be found in the community folder. It was not there and could not find the file anywhere. I then decided to try the mod anyway and when I went to engage the fuel levers they would not move. Here is the pertinent read me instructions.
Download
Latest Release v2102.3
How to install
- Delete any previous versions.
- Copy the C208B-mod folder into the Community Folder.
WT G1000 v0.3.4 - To enable annunciations you will need to replace the following file with the one included with this mod (wt-g1000-0.3.4-fix):
workingtitle-g1000\html_ui\WorkingTitle\Pages\VCockpit\Instruments\NavSystems\SharedCommonPFD_MFD.js
Perhaps this mod is outdate and not functional with the current state of msfs?? If anyone could clarify this for me, I would be most grateful.
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I can’t get it to work either, but this one should.
A few others have reported it does, I haven’t tried it out yet
https://www.workingtitle.aero/packages/nxi/
That’s a very old mod version and things changed a lot for turboprops in the SUs since then. Try this mod, https://flightsim.to/file/16350/cessna-208b-grand-caravan-ex-improvement-mod which was only updated yesterday and is the one I use as a baseline mod for my own tweaks.
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I did copy the file and put it in the community folder, but there another file called the wt g1000 that has a java script subfile that is supposed to be replaced into the main working title g1000. I cannot find the path to be able to replace the file. Perhaps you can help me understand this process.
The mod is in my community folder and I can start the aircraft with no problem. Just wondering now about the java script. Thanks.
BW
If you are still talking about the mod in your original post, stop using it as it is incompatible in a few areas with SU7, not just fuel switches and G1000 annunciations.
Just use a newer mod like the one I posted, which uses the WT G1000NXi you obtain and download in the MSFS Marketplace. With these two item, there is no need for an additional javascript anything and the aircraft mod is great.
The folder structure for the mod should look like the following:
tree C208B-mod
Folder PATH listing for volume Games
Volume serial number is 68C0-5CC1
D:\FLIGHT SIMULATOR\COMMUNITY\C208B-MOD
├───Effects
│ └───texture
├───SimObjects
│ └───Airplanes
│ └───Asobo_208B_GRAND_CARAVAN_EX
│ ├───model
│ ├───panel
│ └───TEXTURE
└───texture
├───AS700
└───GAUGES
Also I second the notion of ditching the WT G1000 mod you have, and use the NXi via the Marketplace instead.
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I have copied the file to the community folder. The fuel levers are frozen.
I also extracted the zip file to the community folder…same result.
I do have the NXI from the marketplace.
If you mean the ZIP file, that won’t work. And even if you did this it would have no effect on the sim at all, so its doubtful that is the cause of frozen fuel levers, unless the un-modded C208 has this issue, and I haven’t read that.
Extracting it should work, as long as you have the folder structure I described above. Be careful how you extract it though. If you simply do that “Extract here”, it should create the “C208-mod” folder inside the “Community” folder. However if you extract to a folder, as in the image below, then it again it won’t work:
You need to “Extract here”. You can also safely delete the “wt-g1000-0.3.4-fix” folder it creates if you are using the NXi.
I went back did the extraction of the zip to the community folder and deleted the “wt-g1000-0.3.4-fix" file.
The fuel levers are now unfrozen. Thanks.
By the bye, how do I know that the yaw is working? The button seems to move when clicked but there is no identifying white vertical slash showing that it is active. I have not yet tried a full flight with the mod. I will tomorrow and let you know my experience. Thanks to everyone for your help.
BW
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Do you mean rudder trim, or yaw damper?
Sorry. Yes, I meant the yaw damper.
I still need a answer concerning the yaw damper in the 208 mod. There is no indicator that it is working.
I thought this was supposed to be modeled or not??
I am not going to be much help as to why the button doesn’t illuminate.
Are you familiar with what a yaw damper does?
It helps prevent an aircraft from doing a Dutch Roll oscillation.
Here is an explanation of a Dutch Roll from Wikipedia.
Dutch roll is a type of aircraft motion consisting of an out-of-phase combination of “tail-wagging” (yaw) and rocking from side to side (roll). This yaw-roll coupling is one of the basic flight dynamic modes(Aircraft dynamic modes - Wikipedia),. This motion is normally well damped in most light aircraft, though some aircraft with well-damped Dutch roll modes can experience a degradation in damping as airspeed decreases and altitude increases. Dutch roll stability can be artificially increased by the installation of a yaw damper. Wings placed well above the center of gravity, sweepback (swept wings) and dihedral wings tend to increase the roll restoring force, and therefore increase the Dutch roll tendencies; this is why high-winged aircraft often are slightly anhedral, and transport-category swept-wing aircraft are equipped with yaw dampers.
So, since the 208 doesn’t do that, I would presume it must be working.
I just assumed that it should light up if active. Yaw damper is turned on after take off. How do you know it is off during taxi??
Since I have your attention I have a question about the SPD key on the autopilot. I am not sure how it is used. It definitely is not a speed hold. Correct. Thanks for your reply.
It doesn’t need to be active during taxi, and a lot of aircraft do require it to be off in this stage.
Spd uses vertical speed (pitch) to control the climb/descent speed of the aircraft in conjunction with your throttle setting.
So, if you set it for 250 kts, it will adjust the vertical speed of the aircraft to maintain that speed.
If you want to climb faster, increase throttle. Opposite on descent!
Correct, it does not move the throttles at all.
