FMS issue?

[rlawrence]

I had an issue tonight that was interesting enough, I decided to create and account and post. I apologize if this has already been mentioned. I did look through the forums first though. 

Tonight I did my first Vatsim flight the 733. All was fine,but quite a few things happened that prevented me from finishing. It's newly released plane and these things happen. 

Flight SFO-PHX 

Flight plan  WESLA1 LOSHN BOILE BLH HYDRR1  FL330

The first strange thing happened was on take off. I hit my PTT button and the landing gear went up. I hit it again and it went down. I looked at the button mapping. Everything was fine . This only happened that one sequence. Maybe this was X-plane acting up.

I went for flaps retraction  and now nothing happened, but X-plane yoke mapping were fine. I manual moved the flaps. 

Decent is where things got really interesting!

I contacted ABQ center and was told to expect 7R instead of 26 to PHX.  I also could jump a few waypoints ahead since there was no traffic and no ATC to PHX. I push nav point HYDDR and then L1 to put it up top. Nothing happened.I tried another way point and it looped me back as if the waypoint was behind me, but it wasn't it. This way point was one before HYDDR and it was about 20NM away. I tried it again  to get this mess cleared up and nothing happened. . My VNAV and suddenly didn't work and I couldn't switch it back on. I did a manual decent and continued. I went to switch my approach from 26 to 7R and then the Gizmo Box comes up. All I could do was close X-plane because this box kept coming up every time I hit 7R. I've completed a flight with no issues, but I was not making changes in flight. Maybe this is an isolated incident. I thought I should post it though. I looked through the logs and nothing indicates a problem.  I'll try again tomorrow and report if needed. Any ideas? 

Thanks for a wonderful product. I'm sure there's more great additions to come on the 733.

 

Richard 

 

PS: Are you planning on adding the classic AP to go with the steam gauge set-up? Sorry if it's in a list and I missed it. I haven't read to many threads 

 

 

[Litjan]

Hi Richard,

sorry to hear about your troubles! We had some reports where X-Plane key mapping went south - for example people reported that the B key will not only apply brakes, but also toggle the Beacon on and off... I think it is an X-Plane quirk, remapping usually helped.

If you get a gizmo-soft-crash (window pops up), the code has failed. At that point we would love to get the gizmo_log.txt file and the IXEG_FMS_debug.txt files (available after next update to 1.0.6) from you, so we can find the reason and cure the crash. After that event, the code will not work right, anymore, and your best bet is to continue with conventional navigation (like you did).

1.0.6 is pretty imminent, and I would suggest waiting for that one before you go through the trouble of reporting any further code-crashes, that one should fix up quite a few of those again.

We don´t have plans to add the older "paddle" type AP panel at this point - the current combo (new panel, steam gauges) is in use in real life, and the old panel with it´s constant clicking of the lockouts would drive people nuts .

Cheers, Jan

 

[rlawrence]

Thank you for quick response. It shows dedication to make a great product even better!

I see the Gizmo log, but not the other. I don't know if I should attach here or if I should send it on an Email.

The Gizmo window did pop-up and the FMS was locked-up, but the sim was still in a usable state. All other function of the plane worked minus the FMS and VNAV. I did select reboot on Gizmo before I closed X-plane. I don't why I thought it would only reboot the crashed script

 

Richard