A320 FMGS beta 26

[dcutugno]

I would like to thank in public Jeehell for the time and effort spent on making this module for the new g3 FCU of the FDS.
It is a great job! we are just ironing out the last few thing but almost complete, free to try it and report!

[kikigey89]

Perf tool is still running to get FLEX values Nice to see approx. every 10 secs. a value coming out^^

Yep, I will compare them in a picture the next days. Guess it is mainly the font type and size/proportion.
Maybe I can create my own font for the FMGS.

[kikigey89]

Found some minutes I hope you will not hate me for my accuracy
But I love your project and want to support it in every way to get it perfect

• other font (maybe I can create one?)
• blue font and blue symbols have to be brighter (light blue?)
• background in tapes has to be darkened
• no white border on left side of speed and altitude tape and on bottom of heading tape
• values on speed and altitude tape have to be on the left side of the tape
• values on heading tape has to touch the bottom
• 30° values on heading tape (and on ND rose!) have to be bigger (18, 21, etc.)
• VS indicator has to be smaller
• blue triangle for selected speed has to be bigger
• bank triangle has to be smaller
• bank lines are small rectangles
• colors of artifical horizon (blue and brown) have to be darker
• the 4 yellow lines and the radio altitude in the brown part has to be really yellow
• inner vertical part of these yellow/black rectangles in artifical horizon (don't know their name) have to be longer in vertical direction
• wrong proportion of pitch angles on artifical horizon
• numbers on artifical horizon has to be bigger and the distance to the corresponding lines has to be bigger
• short lines on course tape for 5° (185°, 195°, etc.) have to be shorter (just a bit)
• I think most lines have to be thicker
• vertical line between OP DES and NAV on FMA is shorter than the others
• all FMA lines have to be positioned more to the right

[jeehell]

Found some minutes I hope you will not hate me for my accuracy

Haha too late

Ok I'll try to correct those graphical inconveniences. Just for my info, is that a 330 display or 320? if it's a 330 one are you sure it's identical to the 320?

As for the blue/brown of the artificial horizon, I think there are different colors depending on the DU type (older CRTs and newer LCDs for example). Maybe I'll add an option to set the RGB value of each color? What do you think of that?

For the font, we definitely need a new one It has to be a true type font (.ttf format). If you agree to create one and make it freely available through my software it would be greatly appreciated!!
I could add an option to change the font as well, but I'm afraid not using a preset font might "damage" the overall rendering (i.e. texts not aligned properly, overlapping other part of the display).

Cheers,
JL

[kikigey89]

It's an A330 as I thought both are the same. But now I compared A330 to A320. The only differences are, that the FMA line of A320 is not shorter.
Second thing is that the VS tape differs completely. Your VS indicator looks more like an A330 indicator. Maybe the PFD style is depending on the age of the aircraft. Maybe newer A320 have an other style than older?
But I don't really care at this time how your VS indicator will look like

I tested the PFD on 4 different TFTs and on all the colors looked the same. Are you using a CRT? RGB option would be nice.

Sure, I will try to get a good software for creating fonts.
I will inform you if there's anything new on this.

[kikigey89]

Yep, found some pictures where the A320 VS indicator look like the one of the A330.
So there are different versions of the PFD.

[jeehell]

So there are different versions of the PFD.

That's what I meant with CRT or LCD type of real unit, the LCD are the latest hardware Airbus has produced (on the A320 it is easily recognisable as the corner of the EIS screens are either round or square depending on the display technology, I don't what they did regarding the A330s?)

I think I will change the default colors, but create the possibility to change the RGB of each color used (not that many: black, green, 2 types of blue, gray, white, yellow, red, magenta, amber, and brown I think).
As for the proportions/size I will do my best.
Tell me if you can create a font, it seems to be not that easy ?

JeeHell

[kikigey89]

My A330 is D-ALPI which was build in 2007. It has TFT screens.

Main problem is to get a freeware editor...

[kikigey89]

Hi,

unfortunately I had to cancel Perf tool after approx. 40 hours because my computer had some problems... But no problem with your software.
Perf tool takes definitely too long. After 40 hours it was at 6000 ft and I saw in the files that it increases up to 14000 ft?
I think it will be better if the tool just records every 10 degrees and every second FLEX degree. The values in-between can be created by a spline interpolation.
So it can be 5 times faster!

I found a tool for font creating and it seems that it is working properly. Maybe I can send you a first font file this evening for testing.
It won't be near to the Airbus font but it should be a test if my created font is working with your FMGS. If it works, I will start to create the real font.
Please tell me, where I can send the font!

Chris

[jeehell]

Hi,

For the PERF problem, I know it's long but it's not exactly linear.I actually use the interval they give int he A320 FCOM. I'll see if I can easily add an accuracy setting to increase the interval between 2 measures.

For your font, you can send it to my e-mail "jeehell #at# jeehell.org"

JL