DU Selectors

[Pim van Vrijaldenhoven]

As many of you probably know, you can make the DU selectors operational with the Expanded F6 mode. Since the PM manual hardly spends any words on it, I wrote a short tutorial.

You can find it at: http://home.planet.nl/~pvrijald/flightsim/expandedf6.htm

Have fun,

--pim

[carlos hermida]

Hi Pim,

Nice tutorial like the other ones from you, thanks to share with us !

[Melnato]

Thanks Pim!

Nice little website there with some nice solutions!

Nat

[Oter3]

Hello.
I have tried to use the F6 mode with help from your tutorial and it works exelent.
Only one questation whic PM-offset are you using to operate the ENG and SYS buttons and what does the "sys" button acctualy mean in this case?

Regards
Nils

[Pim van Vrijaldenhoven]

The SYS button shows two system pages - the lower EICAS page and a page showing the actual positions of the rudder, ailerons, and elevator. Since I use the CPFlight MIP interface board, I don't have to deal with offsets here.

--pim

[Joe Cygan]

Great information Pim! Thanks for sharing.

Joe

[Oter3]

Hello.. pim
Thanks, a quick and good answer. It makes the completion of my "Brake-panel" many steps closer. You inspired me to place a question on this Forum instead of trying and trying! Thanks again and good luck.
(By the way: PM-offset could be $04F4-2, value 336, system page.)
Regards
Nils

[ADW]

I am new to PM and have found getting the PFD and ND positioned correctly a bit 'challenging'. You mentioned in your very useful script about how to move the PFD and ND apart by editing the GCSET.TXT.

This is exactly what I needed but when I looked in the txt file there was no '/captain ND' block to edit the 'posX' value. There was only a block about the '/chrono'. This had an id number associated with it so I assume it had been placed there by the application.

There doesn't appear to be anything mentioned in the manual about how to do it but I might have missed it :-D

[Pim van Vrijaldenhoven]

Hallo Andy,

This is the file for the upper DU:

/element positions
/Chronometer
ID= 20
PosX=-30
PosY= 210
Zoom=0.000
Hide=Off
Active=Off
/Expanded F6 Positions
/Captain PFD
ID= 61
PosX=-280
PosY=-100
Zoom=1.000
Hide=On
Active=Off
/Captain ND
ID= 62
PosX= 180
PosY=-105
Zoom=1.000
Hide=On
Active=Off
/Upper EICAS
ID= 63
PosX= 480
PosY= 260
Zoom=1.000
Hide=Off
Active=Off
/Lower EICAS
ID= 64
PosX= 480
PosY=-230
Zoom=1.000
Hide=On
Active=Off
/First Officer ND
ID= 65
PosX= 180
PosY=-555
Zoom=1.000
Hide=On
Active=Off
/First Officer PFD
ID= 66
PosX=-280
PosY=-550
Zoom=1.000
Hide=On
Active=Off

As you can it is in Expanded mode. You should see a similar configuration. I am using the latest build 464.

Best regards,

--pim