GNS 530 problem, and DME too

[diamonddriller]

Mac OS 26 Tahoe on a Mac Studio - X-Plane in Mac silicon mode.

Both 530s won't recognise any VORs.  They don't identify any. The radials - if they show anything at all - are wrong - usually displays 180, and the distances are wrong too.  That bit of the display may not even show a radial or distance.  The DME sometimes agrees with the GPS derived distance, but I may have to click its button once or twice. Often the ground speed and time is 0, but it may show some value which is way off.  I can be doing 140kts, and it will say 25 or whatever.....

My X-Plane is running in 12.3.0 b2.   Could that be it?

 

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Edited September 22 by diamonddriller

[EGT]

There is a problem with the DME system. It only reads correctly when flying directly away from the DME. If you fly perpendicular to it, it correctly shows zero, but if you fly towards it, it will still read zero. It's only correct when flying within 180 degrees of azimuth away from the station.

The nav heads (HSI/CDI) themselves are also weird/wrong. The CDI that should show NAV2 information shows NAV1. There are also some oddities with the course pointers and which knob controls which.

X-Plane itself has problems with nav source selection and the HSI knobs. You can see this in the Citation X when switching between NAV1/NAV2. I wonder if the 525 is using the X-Plane radios and thus experiencing this same problem?

[diamonddriller]

@EGT   Interesting....  I haven't tried the 525 (with the 530s) on an ILS, and I wonder whether the GPSs will identify the localisers, as they certainly don't recognise the VORs.  

Are you (EGT) running in Windows, and do your 530s identify the VORs?  As I'm on a silicon Mac, I wonder whether this is a Mac only problem.  Coop has not come in on this yet.

[diamonddriller]

No reply from the developer after a week......  I'll try Discord again

[diamonddriller]

Well, it's now quite a time since I reported my problem with the 530s.  I have also tried the plane on an Intel based iMac, and had exactly the same thing happening, so I doubt that I am an isolated case....

I'm somewhat surprised not to have received any comment from either Cameron or Coop.    Very unusual.   Also, no reaction from anyone in Discord.