Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2015 12:31:03 GMT -5
You guys have listened to me bitch ad nausuem about Carenado/Alabeo (read "Crappybeo") and I'm sure are sick to death of my complaining. But I just ran across something that has been driving me nuts for a long time now, and this even has me shaking my head, given I don't expect much from these guys.
I've been complaining royally about how their EHSI's drift with time. EHSI's are slaved - they don't drift. But not with Carenado. I complained about this on the Avsim Forum and Bert Pieke actually came up with a mod in the XML file for one of the airplanes to stop this from happening. I have complained directly to Carenado (yeah, like they ever listen!) and all I've ever got was a, "We're looking into this." Once I got the famous, "It's an FSX limitation" answer. Really?? I mean, REALLY?
Well, I was poking around in a couple of aircraft.cfg files today and I found something interesting. There is a setting for EHSI's so they won't drift. To confirm, I looked in the default 172's aircraft.cfg file and found the following:
[direction_indicators]
//1 Type: 0=None, 1=Vacuum Gyro, 2=Electric Gyro, 3=Electro-Mag Slaved Compass, 4=Slaved to another
//2 Indicator number of slaving indicator if Type = 4
direction_indicator.0=1,0
You'll notice that for your primary direction indicator (Directional Gyro) for the 172, it is listed at type "1". If you look at the legend above, which is part of the entry, type "1" is a Vacuum Gyro. That is very correct for that type of airplane. You'll know which is a vacuum or even an electric gyro DG because it will have an adjustment knob (that's not the Course or Heading knobs by the by) for it. If it doesn't have one of those, it is a SLAVED gyro. If you'll look back at the legend once again, you'll notice that the number for a slaved unit is "3".
Thinking that Carenado may have missed this because they didn't include the legend in their cfg files, I went and looked up both the PC 12 and the B200 aircraft.cfg direction_indicator entries. Both of those DG's are slaved units, yet drift like crazy even with the option turned off in the FSX settings/realism window (and I'm not going to adjust those settings based on each aircraft I fly!). Here is the one for the B200 (both are essentially the same)
[direction_indicators]
//1 Type: 0=None, 1=Vacuum Gyro, 2=Electric Gyro, 3=Electro-Mag Slaved Compass, 4=Slaved to another
//2 Indicator number of slaving indicator if Type = 4
direction_indicator.0=2,0
direction_indicator.0=4,2
If you'll notice, they have BOTH the primary and backup DG's set as "Electric Gyro's" (#2)! Excuse me? Of course those are going to drift!! FSX Limitation? Only if you can't read (or can't be bothered reading) and that is NOT an FSX limitation, that is an IQ limitation, of which Carenado are incredibly short on apparently.
Now just to be sure I was barking up the right tree, I changed my entry in the B200 to the following:
[direction_indicators]
//1 Type: 0=None, 1=Vacuum Gyro, 2=Electric Gyro, 3=Electro-Mag Slaved Compass, 4=Slaved to another
//2 Indicator number of slaving indicator if Type = 4
//direction_indicator.0=2,0
direction_indicator.0=3,0
direction_indicator.0=4,2
I commented out their code and changed the EHSI gyro to a slaved unit (#3). I didn't touch the second one as I don't look at it. I then went and flew an hour long flight. In that time I would normally correct the DG about every 5 minutes (on a GPS course it won't make a lot of difference if the DG is out, but if you are in HDG mode, God help you if you don't update it pretty frequently!!). I hit the "D" key about every 5 minutes per usual, except once I let it go 15 minutes to make sure there was no drift. It didn't drift so much as a single degree the entire flight. Unbelievable.
Every single Carenado airplane with an EHSI has the wrong code in for the DG. They have been told about this by many on the forums and personally by me emailing them with each release. Not once have they ever bothered to address this, even though it is a 30 second correction in the cfg file. They even have the code in their header to tell them what this parameter does, and still they won't change it. There is no adjustment knob to change reset the DG in the airplane (correctly) and they haven't even clued in that there is something wrong. Actually, let me amend that. They know there is something wrong. Even if they can't see it with their own two eyes, they have been told about it over and over and over again. Yet they won't fix it. Why? Because they are only interested in making the $$$ and they don't give a rat's ass about their customers. I'm quite sure with each release they thumb their noses at us and say to themselves, "Don't worry, they'll buy it anyway," and have a hearty laugh. I won't be very popular with this opinion, but I hope they go under. They don't deserve to be a part of this community. But then Don did predict this very type of thing when things went all payware, and once again I'm here to say he hit the nail right on the head.
Sadly.
End of rant.
I've been complaining royally about how their EHSI's drift with time. EHSI's are slaved - they don't drift. But not with Carenado. I complained about this on the Avsim Forum and Bert Pieke actually came up with a mod in the XML file for one of the airplanes to stop this from happening. I have complained directly to Carenado (yeah, like they ever listen!) and all I've ever got was a, "We're looking into this." Once I got the famous, "It's an FSX limitation" answer. Really?? I mean, REALLY?
Well, I was poking around in a couple of aircraft.cfg files today and I found something interesting. There is a setting for EHSI's so they won't drift. To confirm, I looked in the default 172's aircraft.cfg file and found the following:
[direction_indicators]
//1 Type: 0=None, 1=Vacuum Gyro, 2=Electric Gyro, 3=Electro-Mag Slaved Compass, 4=Slaved to another
//2 Indicator number of slaving indicator if Type = 4
direction_indicator.0=1,0
You'll notice that for your primary direction indicator (Directional Gyro) for the 172, it is listed at type "1". If you look at the legend above, which is part of the entry, type "1" is a Vacuum Gyro. That is very correct for that type of airplane. You'll know which is a vacuum or even an electric gyro DG because it will have an adjustment knob (that's not the Course or Heading knobs by the by) for it. If it doesn't have one of those, it is a SLAVED gyro. If you'll look back at the legend once again, you'll notice that the number for a slaved unit is "3".
Thinking that Carenado may have missed this because they didn't include the legend in their cfg files, I went and looked up both the PC 12 and the B200 aircraft.cfg direction_indicator entries. Both of those DG's are slaved units, yet drift like crazy even with the option turned off in the FSX settings/realism window (and I'm not going to adjust those settings based on each aircraft I fly!). Here is the one for the B200 (both are essentially the same)
[direction_indicators]
//1 Type: 0=None, 1=Vacuum Gyro, 2=Electric Gyro, 3=Electro-Mag Slaved Compass, 4=Slaved to another
//2 Indicator number of slaving indicator if Type = 4
direction_indicator.0=2,0
direction_indicator.0=4,2
If you'll notice, they have BOTH the primary and backup DG's set as "Electric Gyro's" (#2)! Excuse me? Of course those are going to drift!! FSX Limitation?
Only if you can't read (or can't be bothered reading) and that is NOT an FSX limitation, that is an IQ limitation, of which Carenado are incredibly short on apparently.Now just to be sure I was barking up the right tree, I changed my entry in the B200 to the following:
[direction_indicators]
//1 Type: 0=None, 1=Vacuum Gyro, 2=Electric Gyro, 3=Electro-Mag Slaved Compass, 4=Slaved to another
//2 Indicator number of slaving indicator if Type = 4
//direction_indicator.0=2,0
direction_indicator.0=3,0
direction_indicator.0=4,2
I commented out their code and changed the EHSI gyro to a slaved unit (#3). I didn't touch the second one as I don't look at it. I then went and flew an hour long flight. In that time I would normally correct the DG about every 5 minutes (on a GPS course it won't make a lot of difference if the DG is out, but if you are in HDG mode, God help you if you don't update it pretty frequently!!). I hit the "D" key about every 5 minutes per usual, except once I let it go 15 minutes to make sure there was no drift. It didn't drift so much as a single degree the entire flight. Unbelievable.
Every single Carenado airplane with an EHSI has the wrong code in for the DG. They have been told about this by many on the forums and personally by me emailing them with each release. Not once have they ever bothered to address this, even though it is a 30 second correction in the cfg file. They even have the code in their header to tell them what this parameter does, and still they won't change it. There is no adjustment knob to change reset the DG in the airplane (correctly) and they haven't even clued in that there is something wrong. Actually, let me amend that. They know there is something wrong. Even if they can't see it with their own two eyes, they have been told about it over and over and over again. Yet they won't fix it. Why? Because they are only interested in making the $$$ and they don't give a rat's ass about their customers. I'm quite sure with each release they thumb their noses at us and say to themselves, "Don't worry, they'll buy it anyway," and have a hearty laugh. I won't be very popular with this opinion, but I hope they go under. They don't deserve to be a part of this community. But then Don did predict this very type of thing when things went all payware, and once again I'm here to say he hit the nail right on the head.
Sadly.
End of rant.
