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Majestic Q400 programming
Haven't been flying the Q400 since a few weeks before Christmas and when I come back to it now I have problems.
On one of my T8's 4 of the toggles work and 4 don't. When I research them through detective I am able
to re-establish there function through creating a new bespoke event but it does have different LVar names.
EFIS isn't working at all.
MCPPRO some buttons/switches/ knobs are working and others not.
For example, when I click on the YD button I see "Lvar : AFCS_->outputs.YD_engaged_right_lt Lvar Data: 0" in detective
but this is not the way it was previously written into a bespoke event.
I am in FSX and dead in the water with my Q400. I have the downloads for the Q400 mcppro and efis and Q166
Any thoughts on what has gone wrong would be appreciated.
dave
On one of my T8's 4 of the toggles work and 4 don't. When I research them through detective I am able
to re-establish there function through creating a new bespoke event but it does have different LVar names.
EFIS isn't working at all.
MCPPRO some buttons/switches/ knobs are working and others not.
For example, when I click on the YD button I see "Lvar : AFCS_->outputs.YD_engaged_right_lt Lvar Data: 0" in detective
but this is not the way it was previously written into a bespoke event.
I am in FSX and dead in the water with my Q400. I have the downloads for the Q400 mcppro and efis and Q166
Any thoughts on what has gone wrong would be appreciated.
dave
Comments
Hi Dave,
Any updates to the Q400 potentially will cause LVAR name changes. However fake LVar's are hard coded into GIT and never change. The example you have given is a fake LVar. What was the LVar used before?
Thx
Steve
I don't know what the LVAR was before. I guess what I meant to say is that I have never used or seen this type of LVAR when I have created bespokes for switches and knobs not covered by the available download.
On the EFIS nothing currently works. Here is one of the bespoke events for the BARO knob
AFCS_-> outputs.HSI_right_lt = 1
AFCS_-> outputs.HSI_left_lt = 167545
...and for the MCPPRO the YD which is also no longer working
AFCS_-> outputs.HSI-right_lt = 12
AFCS-> outputs.HSI_left_lt = 33470
Are these correct?
Any ideas what I can do to get things working again??
thanks
dave
Hi Dave,
Do you have any other GoFlight devices other than the MCP and EFIS configured for the Q400? If you have you must not use any fake LVars as this will mess up the MCP PRO and EFIS config done by Slayer. If you haven't, use the import wizard to reload the MCP PRO and EFIS config making sure you delete the existing bespoke events when prompted.
Best wishes
Steve
Yes have a bunch of goflight devices with switches and knobs that I have setup with bespokes for my Q400 and I have not used any fake LVars for them. As I say, I had never noticed these fake lvars until I had this problem.
I was afraid you were going to say that I had to reload the MCPPRO and EFIS because it requires deleting the existing bespoke events. Is there a way I can delete the bespoke events done by Slayer and required for his download without losing all the bespoke events I have created?? Perhaps I can just delete them all one at a time leaving the ones that I created???
thanks for your support!!!!!!
dave
Hi Dave,
Yes you could do that, but make a backup of My Documents\GoFlight Interface Tool in case you make a mistake.
To prove if its a fake LVar issue, disable all your devices in GIT other than the MCP PRO and EFIS. Quit GIT and then reload it and see if these devices work OK now.
Best wishes
Steve
ALL the bespoke events made with LVARS (mine or Slayers) have somehow changed.
Every one is now made of up with either of the following with different numbers after the equal sign.
AFCS_-> outputs.HSI_right_lt = XX (different numbers)
AFCS_-> outputs.HSI_left_lt = XXXXXX (different numbers)
or
AFCS -> outputs.YD_engaged_right_lt = xx
AFCS -> outputs.YD_engaged_left_lt= xxxxx
Any idea what might have happened? This is gonna be ALOT of work to get back. Maybe it's time to ditch the Q400.
Any suggestions?
dave
The bespokes that I made with EVENTS are OK. That's why some switches work and some don't
I would manually remove Slayers bespokes and reload using the Wizard.
Best wishes
Steve
Did as you suggested and removed Slayers bespoke events and reloaded using the wizard. I deleted the bespokes manually so I could keep the ones that I made. Learned the hard way that the wizard appears to automatically delete everything so I lost all my bespokes anyway.
Nevertheless, it appears to have brought the EFIS and MCPPRO back to life. I will go to work rebuilding my events.
I started to make my bespoke events and I notice that the Light Data pull down has hundreds of fake LVARS in it now. I don't remember seeing them there before. Is that normal?
The Switch Event pull down menu appears as it always has with no fake LVARS.
Would love to figure out how this happened so I can prevent it occurring again.
Thanks
dave