Latest VisualPSX and FSX Lock

[United744]

Hi,

I downloaded the latest suite yesterday, and was unable to get VisualPSX to put FSX into position lock mode.

I placed PSX at a gate prior to connecting to FSX, and FSX slewed correctly, and the runway even appeared to be aligned correctly between FSX and PSX, but I'm unsure if that was a fluke for that airport.

The aircraft was shutdown, the parking brake was OFF, I toggled the beacon on/off but to no avail. The FSX model correctly followed the PSX config.

Any ideas?

[United744]

VisualPSX appears to be unstable - FSX is locking up after only a few seconds of motion. PSX frame rate drops to 4 FPS, and the network module crashes requiring a restart of PSX to get it working again.

[United744]

Hmm - I think it was vPilot traffic proxy that was killing things. Seems to be OK so far without it.

[Garry Richards]

Sorry, my mistake. I checked the manual and discovered an oversight. The conditions for VisualPSX to go into lock mode are actually:

PSX is stationary;
The park brake must be ON;
The Nav lights must be on;
The beacon must be off.

The next version will also require that the runway turnoff lights be off because they will be used to activate a new feature.

Cheers,

[United744]

Ahh! I'll try it with the park brake ON. Thanks!  

[cagarini]

What's that "Lock" mode ?

[brian747]

@ José

See p.13 and thereabouts of the VisualPSX Suite Manual.    

@Garry

Many thanks for the clarification on the conditions for entering lock mode. However, with my PSX aircraft at a stand at Heathrow EGLL, selecting runways 09L or 09R results in the VisualPSX message "No matching FSX runway found". (Although runways 27L & 27R perform as expected).

(I'm using the Aerosoft version of Heathrow, incidentally, just in case it makes any difference).

[Later edit]:

Apologies, Garry, I've only just found your reply to Avi here:
http://aerowinx.com/forum/topic.php?post=27654#post27654

So evidently this is happening at EGLL as well as LLBG.

Cheers,

Brian

[kiek]

@ José

See p.13 and thereabouts of the VisualPSX Suite Manual.    

I've never managed to get the Lock mode... Tried Beacon, Nav, Parking brake, ... no luck.

Nico

[brian747]

@Nico

> "I've never managed to get the Lock mode...".

Neither had I — until I tried Garry's amended list of conditions (earlier in this thread):

* (Stationary aircraft)
* Park brake and Nav lights ON
* Beacon (and runway turnoff lights for the next version) OFF

That did it for me....    

Cheers,

Brian

[kiek]

Thx Brian, I've tried all that, but probably not 100% correct...

* (Stationary aircraft)

What exactly is a stationary aircraft?

[brian747]

Sorry, Nico —

Garry said:

> "PSX is stationary"

(http://aerowinx.com/forum/topic.php?post=27648#post27648)

By which I assumed he meant that the aircraft isn't moving. Although if it's got the parking brake on (as is required), *hopefully* it's not moving anywhere, anyway.    

Cheers,

Brian

[Edit: typo].

[brian747]

Comment from Garry in the main thread:

"I have found and fixed an anomaly in VisualPSX that prevents it from assigning runway offsets in some circumstances. I refer to it as an anomaly rather than a bug because I am not sure if it is due to some change I made to VisualPSX or that Hardy made to PSX. In any event it was a one line fix that will appear in the next update to VisualPSX."

...

"I have now cleared all known bugs from the VisualPSX suite and have finished adding new features. I will be able to release it shortly after I have updated the manual and other documentation."


See his full post at:

http://aerowinx.com/forum/topic.php?post=27757#post27757

B.