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As many of you probably know, you can make the DU selectors operational with the Expanded F6 mode. Since the PM manual hardly spends any words on it, I wrote a short tutorial.
You can find it at: http://home.planet.nl/~pvrijald/flig...expandedf6.htm
Have fun,
--pim
Hi Pim,
Nice tutorial like the other ones from you, thanks to share with us !
Thanks Pim!
Nice little website there with some nice solutions!
Nat
Hello.
I have tried to use the F6 mode with help from your tutorial and it works exelent.
Only one questation whic PM-offset are you using to operate the ENG and SYS buttons and what does the "sys" button acctualy mean in this case?
Regards
Nils
The SYS button shows two system pages - the lower EICAS page and a page showing the actual positions of the rudder, ailerons, and elevator. Since I use the CPFlight MIP interface board, I don't have to deal with offsets here.
--pim
Great information Pim! Thanks for sharing.
Joe
Hello.. pim
Thanks, a quick and good answer. It makes the completion of my "Brake-panel" many steps closer. You inspired me to place a question on this Forum instead of trying and trying! Thanks again and good luck.
(By the way: PM-offset could be $04F4-2, value 336, system page.)
Regards
Nils
I am new to PM and have found getting the PFD and ND positioned correctly a bit 'challenging'. You mentioned in your very useful script about how to move the PFD and ND apart by editing the GCSET.TXT.
This is exactly what I needed but when I looked in the txt file there was no '/captain ND' block to edit the 'posX' value. There was only a block about the '/chrono'. This had an id number associated with it so I assume it had been placed there by the application.
There doesn't appear to be anything mentioned in the manual about how to do it but I might have missed it :-D
Hallo Andy,
This is the file for the upper DU:
/element positions
/Chronometer
ID= 20
PosX=-30
PosY= 210
Zoom=0.000
Hide=Off
Active=Off
/Expanded F6 Positions
/Captain PFD
ID= 61
PosX=-280
PosY=-100
Zoom=1.000
Hide=On
Active=Off
/Captain ND
ID= 62
PosX= 180
PosY=-105
Zoom=1.000
Hide=On
Active=Off
/Upper EICAS
ID= 63
PosX= 480
PosY= 260
Zoom=1.000
Hide=Off
Active=Off
/Lower EICAS
ID= 64
PosX= 480
PosY=-230
Zoom=1.000
Hide=On
Active=Off
/First Officer ND
ID= 65
PosX= 180
PosY=-555
Zoom=1.000
Hide=On
Active=Off
/First Officer PFD
ID= 66
PosX=-280
PosY=-550
Zoom=1.000
Hide=On
Active=Off
As you can it is in Expanded mode. You should see a similar configuration. I am using the latest build 464.
Best regards,
--pim