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Message started by Barb. on Sep 21st, 2010 at 8:13pm

Title: Civa Double INS Integration
Post by CoolP on Oct 1st, 2010 at 10:56pm
General Civa items:

- The Civa INS on the 707 needs a manual installation of the current (1.51) Civa INS gauge. Get it here http://www.simufly.com/ins/

- To convert a normal FS9/FSX flight plan to one which the Civa ADEU reader can read, you need this tool
PlanConverter http://darkc.no-ip.org/trac/planconverter

- You need to activate the other panel.cfg file in SimObjects\Airplanes\variant's name\panel. Just rename "CIVA_panel.cfg" to "panel.cfg" to activate it. Backup first!

You won't receive any official support on this because this is a user made modification.



Civa Double INS Integration

(updated to 1.3 and all variants of the 707 because some values changed)

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/4226/allpanels.th.jpg
http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/4223/allpanelsnight.th.jpg

(don't worry, this only shows the panels, not an active navigation in progress)

Captain Sim did some remarkable job on this nice plane and on the VC integration of one unit too (although function here is an item to come in a future service pack, so currently, this is a VC dummy).
I felt free to mod the given panel.cfg for the Civa integration to enable the second unit (as 2D only) and some additional bells and whistles.

In detail:
- modification on the simicon panel (only two buttons now, because I've combined MSU and ADEU in one window instead of two)
- backlit buttons all the way (can easily be changed, if you like)
- quick Civa access on the default Autopilot popup
- two CDUs, two MSUs, one ADEU reader (if you need two, tell me and I will change the setup), twin Nav switch, double update flags for visual verification of a DME update in progress
- quick open/close buttons on all panels


I hope you like it and I appreciate any comments about this small text work.

Here's how it's done

[edit]For the guys who don't want to go through the manual steps here, you can download a complete set of the necessary panel.cfg files. They include all current 707 variants and work with 1.3. http://www.mediafire.com/?449zzlmmy9dpmpl[/edit]

1. First, as we are going to use the panel.cfg with the default Civa integration (named "CIVA_panel.cfg"), make a backup of it and open with notepad or another text editor.

We are talking about the 707 Version 1.3, please make sure to install the update first.


2. You should have the Civa INS installed. Version 1.51 was used here. It's free and all docs come with it. Enjoy!


3. Working in the panel.cfg, [Window Titles] section

Delete all entries after #05 and replace them with these two

Code (]
Window06=INS Control Display Units
Window07=INS MSU+ADEU[/code):


This will give us only two windows for the INS were MSU+ADEU are combined in one and the CDUs with the flags and switches in the other


4. Look at the [Window00] section and delete everything (in that section) after ;CIVA

Replace it with
[code]gauge04=../civa/INS!CduPanelIconB,   0,  652, 24, 24, 11041
gauge05=../civa/INS!AdeuPanelIconB,  0,  676, 24, 24, 11042

This sets up the new buttons for the following windows.
Caution: You will have to alter the gauge numbers (04 and 05 in this example) if you are using the Freighter, since he already has a gauge04 there, so Civa must go to 05 and 06.

On the VC-137, the icons look "stretched" (which doesn't come from my mod though). You can change this back to normal with replacing 144

Code (]gauge02=Captain_Sim.x703.tools!icons, 0,508,24,144[/code):
with 96 on the final number.
To make the Civa buttons fit then, change 652->604 and 676->628 in their lines then.


5. Delete the [Window04] section completely (this is the 2D AP popup) and replace it with this one

[code][Window04]
size_mm=405,100
window_pos= 0.300, 0.020
;position=2
background_color=0,0,0
visible=0
ident=11004
nomenu=0
gauge00=..\..\CS_B707-300\panel\Captain_Sim.x707.P11!P11_ap,0,0,384,100
gauge01=../civa/INS!CduPanelIconB,    385, 0, 20, 20, 11041
gauge02=../civa/INS!AdeuPanelIconB,    385, 20, 20, 20, 11042


This gives you another placement of the AP popup and two backlit buttons on its right side for quick access to CDU and MSU+ADEU.


6. Delete [Window06], [Window07] and [Window08] completely and replace those old three windows with our new two ones


Code (];CIVA
[Window06):


size_mm=420,223
background_color=0,0,0
window_pos=0.300, 0.160
position=0
visible=0
ident=11041
no_luminous=1
gauge00=../civa/ins!Cdu1,   0,  0, 200, 158
gauge01=../civa/ins!Cdu2, 200,  0, 200, 158
gauge02=../civa/INS!UpdateFlags, 150, 160, 115, 63
gauge03=../civa/INS!CduPanelIconB,      400, 0, 20, 20, 11041
gauge04=../civa/INS!NavModeDual,      270, 160, 50, 45
gauge05=../civa/INS!AdeuPanelIconB,      400, 138, 20, 20, 11042

[Window07]
size_mm=420,158
background_color=0,0,0
window_pos=0.300, 0.450
position=8
visible=0
ident=11042
no_luminous=1
gauge00=../civa/INS!Msu1,   0,  0, 200, 57
gauge01=../civa/INS!Msu2, 200,  0, 200, 57
gauge02=../civa/INS!Adeu1, 0, 60, 250, 101
gauge03=../civa/INS!AdeuPanelIconB,      400, 0, 20, 20, 11042


This defines the new combined windows as described above.


7. Go to the [VCockpit01] section and add
[code]gauge27=../civa/INS!Config,         0,    0,  0, 0, CS707 // this gauge will initialize the Civa units, "CS707.Isd" is the file name of the config file in the Civa folder[/code]
after the last gauge (26)


8. Last step, save the panel.cfg as "panel.cfg" (you might want to backup the default one first) to make sure it's active and fire up FSX together with the 707.
It should look like the screenshot above and it works like the Civa integration before with the additional units and flags.

[edit]The INS/Doppler switch has to be in the "INS" position, battery and avionics must be turned on, the DME switches on the radios should be on and the AP will follow the INS commands when in NAV mode only.
How to warm up and align the Civa INS is described in the extensive documentation that comes with this free gauge. Just look into the "Civa" folder.
[/edit]

Sadly, I won't take any responsibility for harming your system or installation with these text changes, neither does Captain Sim of course.

Do this at your own risk and hopefully enjoy the now enhanced INS experience.



Feel free to comment here.
I'm no programmer, I'm just a guy that has read the Civa manuals and started working on the modification after getting the idea from Cthulhus.

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