jimbim Posted May 18, 2016 Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 Hello together, I am wondering if the transponder works correctly. Unfortunately I was not able to find any documentation for that specific transponder panel in the IXEG. What does the position 'AUTO' of knob #2 mean? Is it ON and TRANSMITTING using either Transponder 1 or 2 (automatically)? If that is the case, the dataref 'sim/cockpit/radios/transponder_mode' would have the wrong state. It should be set to 2 and not to 1. From the specification, the transponder_mode dataref has four states: (off=0,stdby=1,on=2,test=3) I would also prefer to have have this knob initialized to position 'STBY' or knob #1 in position 'OFF'. That avoids people (like me) Connection to VATSIM with a transmitting Transponder :-) Everything else works great. If I turn knob #1 to 'OFF' the dataref gets 0. Knob#2 at position 'ON' sets it to 2. OK, you could set the dataref to 3 during the test but I think none of the exitsing Network clients (VATSIM, IVAO, ...) supports this state. Maybe I am totally wrong :-) Just a thought. Greetings, Sebastian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_nerdrage Posted May 18, 2016 Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 Auto will start squawking mode C/switch to ON/set the dataref to 2 when airborne (aka the landing gear struts extend). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbim Posted May 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 Thank you very much dr_nerdrage! Than another case where it works as designed :-) Sebastian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodeo Posted May 18, 2016 Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 Yes, the FlightFactor A350 and QPAC A320 have a similar "AUTO" transponder feature. For quite a while, BTW, the A350 had a bug (now fixed) where the transponder would always behave as though it were on AUTO, even when forcibly set to ON or STBY… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Stian Posted May 18, 2016 Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 (edited) As far as I know you can see if the transpoder is active when the display show ATC 1 or ATC 2, depending what you selected. Screenshot when airborn. Edited May 18, 2016 by Tom Stian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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