Hello all INS simmers.

Re opening this thread.

I recently d/l the Civa Carousel.

Set up as per the first posts in this thread.

Had a series of failures. Main issue being, the Civa install does not work with the "V" gauge add on.  When "V" gauge is opened the INS displays get badly corrupted along with some VC gauges?

However, I used the download panel.cfg for dual installation and had a little more success. (Thanks CoolP)

Took the best part of 6 hours and still having mixed results. Minus the "V" gauge, so far.

The Civa web site has the following interesting features listed:-

Additional features:

- Induced, per-INS, NAV time based, random "drifting" error
- Induced, per-INS, random unit "hardware" failures


I wonder if those "random" hardware failures are influencing my growing disillusion with the Civa INS?  Its failing to command the heading bug to the first ins waypoint.

Also, the "quick align" counts down to 6:9 and halts there.

I have the "INS/Doppler" set to INS and NAV AP set on? Also follow CoolP's instructions...Well still practising!

Will try some more today.

The loss of the "V" gauge is a greater loss then the INS gauge, so I wll revert back to the V install, if I have more failures today!

Like has been said on this forum, the INS Carousel was state of the art back in the day. ART being the operative word! The modern FMC is very easy to use compared to the INS. Perhaps the totally non-intuitive INS system input is the culprit.  Also we are on a simulation platform known for its quirky behaviour with VAS etc. and we are installing gauges by hand, over different FSX installs.... :-/

Aw well, it may be back to VOR/Doppler NAV ::)

Cheers
David