Landing and Taxi Lights

[Trevor Hale]

To describe it easy

It works like the relationship with a wife! What ever you do will be reseted if you didn't asked before that it will be Okay to do.

I completely understand now

[Thomas Richter]

In FS9 if you remove the panel.cfg or its folder, FS uses a panel.cfg from the closest A/C then.
You should use in any case a Panel folder with a panel.cfg, e.g. we use ever a panel.cfg where are only the views defined, nothing else.

[VIEWS]
VIEW_FORWARD_ZOOM= 0.70
VIEW_FORWARD_DIR= -7.5, 0, 0
VIEW_FORWARD_RIGHT_ZOOM=0.70
VIEW_FORWARD_RIGHT_DIR= -8.0, 0, 50
VIEW_RIGHT_ZOOM= 0.70
VIEW_RIGHT_DIR= -8.0, 0, 90
VIEW_REAR_RIGHT_ZOOM= 0.70
VIEW_REAR_LEFT_ZOOM= 0.70
VIEW_LEFT_ZOOM= 0.70
VIEW_LEFT_DIR= -8.0, 0, 270
VIEW_FORWARD_LEFT_ZOOM= 0.70
VIEW_FORWARD_LEFT_DIR= -8.0, 0, 310

[Trevor Hale]

Perfect, Thanks I will try this right now.

Thanks Thomas.

Trev

[Trevor Hale]

Ok, Well that didn't cure the issue. Made no difference at all.

Only the Taxi and Landing lights do it. Is it possible this is a battery drain issue?

Where Pmsystems is telling the lights there isn't enough batter juice to light them? I have confirmed that when PMSYSTEMS is shut down, my lights stay on.

Any ideas Thomas?

Trev

[Thomas Richter]

What logic do you use for the lights?

[Trevor Hale]

I am using Build 109 737 default logic. Modified for 3 engines.

fsLogoLight = LogoLight
fsBeacon = Beacon
fsLandLight = LandLightR or LandLightL
fsLogoLight = LogoLight
fsTaxiLight = TaxiLight
fsWingLight = WingLight
fsNavLight = WingLight

fsStrobe = Strobe <> 1

[Thomas Richter]

Should not be the problem.
Just show with FSUIPC these values via "Logging" and check "AdvDisplay".
D0C as U8
2834 as FLT64

What values do you see when the Lights
- are switched ON
- when they go OFF by itself

[Trevor Hale]

K.

It might take me a bit to figure that out, SO I will post back here with my findings.

LOL Just frustrating because as you said, Logic should be fine, but as long as pmsystems is off they work.

Thanks for your help So far Thomas.

Trev

[Thomas Richter]

iIn the Aircraft.cfg (FS) there is under electric the setting when the differend systems are switching to OFF because of low power. May be in your logic the GEN's switches not correct to ON and the Battery in FS will be discharched.

[Trevor Hale]

I checked the aircraft.cfg and everything appears to be ok.

What I suspected was that my stupid interface (which is crap) was changing the fslandlight and fstaxilight different then Pmsystems changes it.

so by commenting out the pmsystems variables

//fsLogoLight = LogoLight
//fsBeacon = Beacon
//fsLandLight = LandLightR or LandLightL
//fsLogoLight = LogoLight
//fsTaxiLight = TaxiLight
//fsWingLight = WingLight
//fsNavLight = WingLight


Everything works swimmingly. now.

Anyone want to sell their old interfaces, let me know. This one is going out the window so I can drive over it a few hundred times.

Thanks for all your help

Trev