Hans Krohn
02-09-2007, 05:13 AM
Hi all,
last night I was shooting some approaches in Gander to check out the new autoland features of the PM suite. The first two landings went ok, but on final approach for the third landing Gremlins started to tore into the guts of my simulator.
With other words, weired things started to happen for absolutely no reason I can think of:
2 minutes from touchdown I suddenly observed data corruption on the PFD! Right on top of the PDF's artificial horizon GS, TAS and windspeed / -direction info appeared. It was a copy of the numbers that are displayed in the upper left corner of the NAV display.
I did not want to interrupt the approach, so I did nothing. Some seconds later the PFD went blank. Basically all flight information and the art. horizon were lost and only the frame of the instrument remained.
A restart of the PDF did not remedy the problem. What did was to use the F keys to set some other display mode, for examle with PDF and NAV on the same screen. I could then zoom in on the PDF and it worked normally for a while. But then it blanked out again!
Anybody has observed similar behaviour?
The only change I recently did to my PFD was to get the analogue clock displayed left of the PFD. That clock btw it now totally gone, since the first display blanking incident. I have not been able to get it to display again.
Looks like the ghost in the machine is raising it's ugly head again...
Regards and a good weekend to you all,
Hans
last night I was shooting some approaches in Gander to check out the new autoland features of the PM suite. The first two landings went ok, but on final approach for the third landing Gremlins started to tore into the guts of my simulator.
With other words, weired things started to happen for absolutely no reason I can think of:
2 minutes from touchdown I suddenly observed data corruption on the PFD! Right on top of the PDF's artificial horizon GS, TAS and windspeed / -direction info appeared. It was a copy of the numbers that are displayed in the upper left corner of the NAV display.
I did not want to interrupt the approach, so I did nothing. Some seconds later the PFD went blank. Basically all flight information and the art. horizon were lost and only the frame of the instrument remained.
A restart of the PDF did not remedy the problem. What did was to use the F keys to set some other display mode, for examle with PDF and NAV on the same screen. I could then zoom in on the PDF and it worked normally for a while. But then it blanked out again!
Anybody has observed similar behaviour?
The only change I recently did to my PFD was to get the analogue clock displayed left of the PFD. That clock btw it now totally gone, since the first display blanking incident. I have not been able to get it to display again.
Looks like the ghost in the machine is raising it's ugly head again...
Regards and a good weekend to you all,
Hans