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wims Full Member Offline Posts: 118 Joined: Jul 1^st, 2010	Re: Cannot tune in the ILS at any airport Reply #15 - Jul 10^th, 2010 at 9:11pm	Print Post
	You can also edit fsx\Flights\other\FLTSIM.FLT with notepad and change the line AvionicsSwitch=False to AvionicsSwitch=True This will ensure that the avionics switch is on whenever you start a plane in FSX EDIT: added the correct filename, I originally called the file 'FLIGHT.FLT', should have been 'FLTSIM.FLT'. whoops


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airbumps Full Member Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Mar 10^th, 2010	Re: Cannot tune in the ILS at any airport Reply #16 - Jul 11^th, 2010 at 1:51am	Print Post
	Thanks for the help guys! Heres what I tried today. Loaded up the Captain Sim 757 defualt flights for Engines Running at KSEA and flew down to KPDX. Tuned in the ILS and it all worked fine. So I thought it must be something to do with the default flight I have set, which is for everything to be cold and dark. Then I logged back on here and discovered you blokes had already discussed making sure the avionics switche is set to on. Well, I opned up my aircraft.cfg and made the electrical adjustmented that was metioned above, and I set a shortcut for the avionics master switch as well. Then I flew KORD (FSDreamTeam) to KJFJ (FSDreamTeam). All seemed to go well. I set the ILS, and as I approached the field I got the DOTS displayed on the ADI (which was never happening before) but the magenta intercept bar never appeared, either for the localizer or the glideslope. I tested switching the master avionics on/off with my shortcut CTRL/SHT/A and sure enough, with the avionics OFF, the DOTS disappear (but nothing else goes off, no radios or anything). When I turned the avionics back on, it appeared again, but still no magenta BAR. More testing is needed I think. Thanks for you help tho guys, much appreciated.


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airbumps Full Member Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Mar 10^th, 2010	Re: Cannot tune in the ILS at any airport Reply #17 - Jul 11^th, 2010 at 2:19am	Print Post
	Just did another test flight with the same results. Got the dots on the ADI but the locasiler never appeared. How do you guys load your flights up? Ive always wanted to start cold and dark, but obviously that is causing me a problem. Do you guys start with the defualt CS flights Cheers, AB


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Tim Capps Senior Member Offline Defense Lawyer & US Navy JAG (ret), Writer Posts: 1070 Location: Southern Illinois Joined: May 21^st, 2009	Re: Cannot tune in the ILS at any airport Reply #18 - Jul 11^th, 2010 at 3:55am	Print Post
	I have the default Cessna with everything off except for the avionics master as my default, i.e. load-at-the-start flight. That works for me. The CS loads will work, too.

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ozflyer Full Member Offline Posts: 17 Location: YTRE Australia Joined: Jun 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Cannot tune in the ILS at any airport Reply #19 - Jul 11^th, 2010 at 6:20am	Print Post
	wims wrote on Jul 10^th, 2010 at 9:11pm: You can also edit fsx\Flights\other\FLIGHT.FLT with notepad and change the line AvionicsSwitch=False to AvionicsSwitch=True This will ensure that the avionics switch is on whenever you start a plane in FSX That sounds a neat solution, my problem is I do not have a FLIGHT.FLT �in fsx\Flights\other\ - should I have ?

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Markoz CS Team Offline Posts: 12373 Location: Victoria, Australia Joined: Apr 24^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Cannot tune in the ILS at any airport Reply #20 - Jul 11^th, 2010 at 7:29am	Print Post
	ozflyer wrote on Jul 11^th, 2010 at 6:20am: wims wrote on Jul 10^th, 2010 at 9:11pm: You can also edit fsx\Flights\other\FLIGHT.FLT with notepad and change the line AvionicsSwitch=False to AvionicsSwitch=True This will ensure that the avionics switch is on whenever you start a plane in FSX That sounds a neat solution, my problem is I do not have a FLIGHT.FLT �in fsx\Flights\other\ - should I have ? I don't have a FLIGHT.FLT anywhere on my computer either. I searched ALL of my Hard Drives and their partitions. Mark

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wims Full Member Offline Posts: 118 Joined: Jul 1^st, 2010	Re: Cannot tune in the ILS at any airport Reply #21 - Jul 11^th, 2010 at 7:51am	Print Post
	Ooops, that should be 'FLTSIM.FLT', not 'FLIGHT.FLT'


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airbumps Full Member Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Mar 10^th, 2010	Re: Cannot tune in the ILS at any airport Reply #22 - Jul 11^th, 2010 at 12:22pm	Print Post
	FIXED IT!!!! Here was the problem. Firstly, as we discovered above, i had the Master Avionics Swithc off by defautly. So, creating a shortcut for that (and putting it ON in the defautlt flight) fixed half the problem - that is, that the DOTS appeared on the ADI, but no magenti intercept bar. Second half of the problem, as that I had the radio in the default flight set to NAV. It turns out that it needs to be set to GPS. I created a toggle switch for NAV/GPS and found that switching it made the magenta intercept bars disappear. So, in the defautly flight I've now got the Master Avionics ON and it set to GPS. Thanks for all your help guys, MUCH appreciated.


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Markoz CS Team Offline Posts: 12373 Location: Victoria, Australia Joined: Apr 24^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Cannot tune in the ILS at any airport Reply #23 - Jul 11^th, 2010 at 1:57pm	Print Post
	airbumps wrote on Jul 11^th, 2010 at 12:22pm: So, in the defautly flight I've now got the Master Avionics ON and it set to GPS. That seems really strange airbumps. I would expect that you need to have the NAV/GPS Switch set to NAV mode (not GPS mode) to get it to follow the ILS and G/S. You can load an FSX Flight Planner plan into the CDU so that the FMC will follow it in NAV mode. It would act just like the A/P in the default 737-800 following that same plan set in GPS mode. Mark

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