Keyboard and Accessing Flight Plan Catalog not working

[Thx1137]

The keyboard in the centre console doesn't do anything when trying to create a flight plan so I have to use the jog wheel. I have to create one manually because I cannot bring up the Flight Plan Catalog (FPC) on either G1000. Note that I am able to bring it up fine on the default Cessna 175 with G1000.

What is interesting is that in the default Cessna I can only display the FPC in the right G1000 unit. I can't bring it up on the unit in front of the pilot. When I try it with the TBM 900 I try using the pilots G1000 and it doesn't come up (same as the 172) but using the Centre console doesn't bring it up either. Also, when I use the centre console the flight plan windows change on all three PFDs. I would expect that the centre console would only update the centre PFD.

I have tested this with no plugins other than Gizmo installed. Log is attached.

Log.txt

Edited February 23, 2019 by Thx1137

[Goran_M]

When in sim, can you go to the top drop down menu, click on View->Show Click Regions.

Are there green click regions on the keypad?

If there are, and it still doesn't work, try a reinstall.

[Thx1137]

All the click regions are there and clicking on a keyboard buttons removes the other regions only highlighting the keyboard key I clicked.

I reinstalled from scratch IE: Uninstalled then manually removed the left over files in the TBM-900 folder. The problem still occurs.

 

[Thx1137]

Are the buttons on the middle MFD supposed to change the options for all three?

I've uploaded a video to show what I am seeing. When the FP window is in edit mode (has a cursor where I can enter letters) I am pushing the buttons on the centre console.

 

[Thx1137]

When I reloaded just then I noticed the centre MFD displayed a map screen for about half a second before being replaced with that as shown in the video. No idea if it means anything.

[RobW05]

You are in revisionary display mode. 

Press the red button on the bottom of the left intercom panel to get back to normal display mode. That will resolve all your other issues too. 

[Thx1137]

Bloody hell. Good job :-)

I've no idea when I would have clicked anywhere near there but it did the job!

Thanks.

[Muchimi]

I find loading a flight plan exceedingly difficult.

The FPL menu usually goes poof by the time I get to click the knob to switch to "load" flight plan.  Very annoying.  Takes me 20 times before I can get to a flight plan menu page.
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong:

Hit the FPL button twice (brings up the second menu), then inner knob clockwise (that's the one I have a heck of a time hitting) to switch to the second line in the menu (flight plan catalog menu).

Not having a lot of luck with the mouse, I mapped the G1000 MFD inner knob up/down on joystick buttons and even when hitting that it doesn't work for me half the time.  

Is there an easier way to do this starting with the FPL menu not going away so quickly so I have the time to switch to the load catalog page?

Edited March 15, 2019 by Muchimi

[Muchimi]

Update...

I went into a deep dive on this yesterday with the dataref tool in x-plane to spelunk through the various functions of the TBM surrounding the flight plan loading.  I gave up with the mouse because it's just too tedious, especially with Trackir or headshake enabled - can't hit the side of a barn with that mouse in the time you have to click the inner knob to change the menu to the line you need to load flight plan from the catalog.

At least with some real buttons, there's a chance.   I ended up mapping two rotary buttons and  push buttons to commands in the keymapper.  The items in bold are the commands to map the button to in the keymapper.

The FMS control knob located to the left of the PLN button and above the keyboard:

OUTER KNOB function (not really used with the flight plan but included here for completeness) - note the description is a misnomer as in this case, the up button scrolls menu down, and the down button scrolls the menu up which I guess makes sense, but not as much sense as clockwise/counterclockwise to my engineering head.

G1000 MFD FMD FMS outer ring tune up    
G1000 MFD FMD FMS outer ring tune down  

INNER KNOB function (That's the one you want for the flight plan activate menu to move up and down between menu options)
G1000 MFD FMD FMS inner ring tune up
G1000 MFD FMD FMS outer ring tune down

FMS BUTTON PUSH function  

G1000 MFD FMS cursor   

ENTER function (some flight plan screens)
G1000 MFD FMD ENT.

You can also map these functions to the FPL button

G1000 MFD FPL    

and for the PROC button:

G1000 MFD proc.

It's quite manageable now as there is time to switch the menu before it goes away while you're hunting for the click spot on the knob (and hit the wrong thing - usually I either get the push function of the outerknob).  Mapping buttons works all the time now.

Edited March 17, 2019 by Muchimi