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View File Hot Start Challenger 650 - C-GFHS (Nav Canada Flight Inspection - Fictional) Fictional rendition of Nav Canada's CRJ-200ER Flight Inspection aircraft for the Hot Start Challenger 650. Submitter ois650 Submitted 11/17/2022 Category Hot Start Challenger 650 Livery For https://www.x-aviation.com/catalog/product_info.php/take-command-hot-start-challenger-650-p-212  

O.M.G.. I got it to work! The profile example had different cc values than the .toml, so I edited a few to match the .toml file and lo and behold, X-plane 11 responded! One quirk, the cc set function in loupdeck live appears to send two values, you can't send just one. The first is in a dropdown list, the second is typed by hand. I assume that the first, having labels, are intended to make selection easier because the labels would guide that value, presumably specific categories of actions, while the second selects values within that action. In the case of CMidiCtrl, the commands appear to use only one of these values, so I selected 127 as the second value and x-plane seems to respond fine. It receives both values but ignores the second. Seem right? Next step will be to modify the spreadsheet that shows the B737 commands and select the cc values, types, and commands it for what I want to do with the Loupedeck, which is to control the knobs of the G1000. I have the Honeycomb yoke and throttle quadrants that work fine for most things, including the autopilot, but controlling the G1000 knobs with head tracking on and in real time (e.g. flying IFR with PilotEdge) is too much of a pain, as is changing comm frequencies. I have been dreaming of control knobs I can program and it seems that I can finally get my way!!!

The course will never appear in preset nav, that’s one of the oddities of nav-to-nav transfer (the name for FMS to ILS auto-transition), and why I recommend setting it manually if radar vectors are expected. I found this weird too, and not how I would have designed it, but it’s just how the Challenger is. When nav-to-nav transfer is able to work, you’ll see blue indications of localiser and glideslope deviation, both as blue diamonds on the deviation scales in the attitude/svs part of the PFD, as well as the CDI at the bottom with blue dashed “ghost” needles. You should have FMS1 as the nav source on the left side, and FMS2 on the right side. Make sure baro settings are sync’d too. Press the approach mode on the autopilot and you should see white LOC1 and GS indications on the FMA strip at the top of the PFD. Even then, it will hang onto FMS nav for as long as it can, until nearly established on the final approach track, then it will swap to LOC navigation. If you’re not on the glideslope, you may need to adjust VS or pitch to capture the glide properly. Normal pilots rules apply : if it’s not doing what you expect, don’t just sit there, make it do it! Change nav source manually and fly the ILS. This is why, personally, I always set the course on preset nav as part of approach preparation. Hope that makes sense.