Jump to content

Artificial horizon inits tumbled


Recommended Posts

After many great flights, this morning, once the FMS went through its initialization time and the artificial horizon appeared, it appeared "tumbled", i.e. rolled about 45 degrees and with a slight nose down pitch. While sitting at the gate. I did not know how to cage it (if even possible), so I aborted.

Is this a built-in failure mode or a failure in FMS init?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

21 hours ago, mraviator said:

After many great flights, this morning, once the FMS went through its initialization time and the artificial horizon appeared, it appeared "tumbled", i.e. rolled about 45 degrees and with a slight nose down pitch. While sitting at the gate. I did not know how to cage it (if even possible), so I aborted.

Is this a built-in failure mode or a failure in FMS init?

Hi,

I have never seen this - but you should check your X-Plane "failure" settings, it could be that you have random failures on (which is the default setting)...

The only time you would see this otherwise is if you moved the display selector on the IRS unit to TEST, but that is a momentary hold knob, so it should flip back when released...

Jan

 

 

Edited by Litjan
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 1 month later...

I had this happen and the issue for me turned out to be Saitek Panels. I try to turn off the hardware before loading up the IXEG because i love working with the modeled cockpit, but I had forgotten to disable the plugin and my starter was in the off position. Once I switched it to both/all, everything started working. Same with making sure the battery switch and avionics switch are on if the panels are connected.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
 Share

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...