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stretch1365 Full Member Offline Posts: 56 Joined: Jun 27^th, 2013	Radio knobs and autopilot Mode switch! Jun 30^th, 2013 at 5:36pm	Print Post
	Hi all, I only bought the 707 the other day, what a great looking plane! but I have a couple of issues with it. Firstly I can't seem to change the frequencies of the radios, either the Comm's ones or the Nav ones. I have turned on the power, turning the top part of the knob to the right, and have ground power on, power selected to ground on the busses too. I can select comm's radio frequencies using the fsx atc window but not using the radio knobs in the VC. Also I have noticed the autopilot mode selector doesn't seem to change out of "Man" mode, it makes the clicking noises but the knob doesn't move. I only found this out after setting up the Ceva INS and then taking off and finding I couldn't select INS nav mode. Also the autopilot switch on the same panel doesn't seem to move either. I think it's the main master on/off switch, next to the elevator release switch.............I apologise as I'm typing this away from my sim. I did look on the forum here, before typing this and did find a similar problem where you suggested running the installer again, this I have done and nothing changed. I have windows7 64bit and have the 707 running with administrator rights, as is all my flight sim programs,, I also have trusted status in my Norton set so that it isn't scanned when running either. I'm interested in any comments anyone has here, as I have a few nice flights planned for this wonderful bird once I can get it to start homing onto the VOR's! Thanks for any advice. David Phillips.

	Happy Flying,&&&&David Phillips
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Markoz CS Team Offline Posts: 12445 Location: Victoria, Australia Joined: Apr 24^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Radio knobs and autopilot Mode switch! Reply #1 - Jul 1^st, 2013 at 11:01am	Print Post
	Quote: Hi all, I only bought the 707 the other day, what a great looking plane! but I have a couple of issues with it. Firstly I can't seem to change the frequencies of the radios, either the Comm's ones or the Nav ones. �I have turned on the power, turning the top part of the knob to the right, and have ground power on, power selected to ground on the busses too. I can select comm's radio frequencies using the fsx atc window but not using the radio knobs in the VC. Also I have noticed the autopilot mode selector doesn't seem to change �out of "Man" mode, it makes the clicking noises but the knob doesn't move. I only found this out after setting up the Ceva INS and then taking off and finding I couldn't select INS nav mode. Also the autopilot switch on the same �panel doesn't seem to move either. I think it's the main master on/off switch, next to the elevator release switch.............I apologise as I'm typing this away from my sim. I did look on �the forum here, before typing this and did find a similar problem where you suggested running the installer again, this I have done and nothing changed. I have windows7 64bit and have the 707 running with administrator rights, as is all my flight sim programs,, I �also have trusted status in my Norton set so that it isn't scanned when running either. I'm interested in any comments anyone has here, as I have a few nice flights planned for this wonderful bird once I can get it to start homing onto the VOR's! It sounds like your Avionics are OFF! One way of fixing this is to make sure that your default flight for FSX has the Avionics master (on/off) switched ON. My default FSX flight is the C172 in a cold and dark setting with the Avionics switched ON. Another thing you could do would be to make a keyboard command for the Avionics master (on/off) by going to Settings > Controls > Buttons / Keys, change Event category to Radios, highlight Avionics master (on/off), click on New Assignment, then add you key-presses. As you can see in the image below, I'm using CTRL + SHIFT + A. For any problems with the CIVA-INS, there is lots of help in this topic CIVA INS - THE ONLY THREAD PLEASE. Hope this helps

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stretch1365 Full Member Offline Posts: 56 Joined: Jun 27^th, 2013	Re: Radio knobs and autopilot Mode switch! Reply #2 - Jul 1^st, 2013 at 8:46pm	Print Post
	Hi Mark, Thanks for the quick reply, I did a quick ten minute flight this morning, and the radio's weren't working on the ground but after taking off I was playing around with switches in the cockpit and got radio's and autopilot all working, but don't know exactly what I switched on to achieve this, typical! I do start off with a cold dark cockpit as a default so might set up a hot key to switch avionics on, but is there not an avionics switch in the VC that would be more realistic? Regards,

	Happy Flying,&&&&David Phillips
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stretch1365 Full Member Offline Posts: 56 Joined: Jun 27^th, 2013	Re: Radio knobs and autopilot Mode switch! Reply #3 - Jul 2^nd, 2013 at 7:52pm	Print Post
	Hi, Just to report back on your advice above. set up a Avionics Switch through FSUIPC on my throttle quadrant and all now works fine. Thank you so much, and the INS is working too so all problems sorted. Looking forward to some great 707 flights now

	Happy Flying,&&&&David Phillips
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Markoz CS Team Offline Posts: 12445 Location: Victoria, Australia Joined: Apr 24^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Radio knobs and autopilot Mode switch! Reply #4 - Jul 3^rd, 2013 at 2:17am	Print Post
	Glad it's all working now. Have fun.

	Mark Fletcher PC: i7 10700K @3.8/5.1GHz \| 64GB DDR4 3200 \| 12GB RTX 4070 Super \| 32" LCD Monitor \| 1TB SSD + 2TB SSD + 2TB HDD \| Win 11 Pro
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sieggie Full Member Offline Posts: 59 Location: Melbourne, FL Joined: Sep 9^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Radio knobs and autopilot Mode switch! Reply #5 - Jul 3^rd, 2013 at 3:13pm	Print Post
	You can also use FSUIPC to create an autorun macro that sets the Avionics Switch on when the plane loads. That way you won't forget to hit the switch. Dave


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