Classic British Flight Sim

Lars Fors asked me to leave a note for Fraser McKay
Lars and Degsy are refurbishing the Alphasim Valiant - Lars reports that it had a rotary start panel very similar to the argosy's....What lars wants to know is can he (with due acknowledgement of course)

Here is his request

The starting panel have a Master Switch, a Rotating Engine Selector and a Start Pushbutton.

The Master Switch is no problem, the Rotating Selector is functioning, But I can't connect the selector
with the pushbutton to commence the startsequence for one engine at a time.
The selector uses "<Value>(L:ENG_SEL,enum)</Value>, 1--4 to step thru.

Anyone having any useful XML coding idea hidden about??

Anyone help at all he and Degsy are about ready to release the refurbished Valiant and this is about all thats holding it up.

Thanks for any and all help
Leif

Hi Leif,

I'm not at home at the moment, but can't they just copy the code off the overhead panel gauge? I can't remember if the Argosy has a Systems Process gauge or not as it might be in there. Basically it works on four arguments along the lines of

(L:Starter_Button,number) 1 == (L:Start_Selector, number) 0 == (L:Start Master,number) 1 == && &&amp if{ 0 (>K:TOGGLE_STARTER4) }
(L:Starter_Button,number) 1 == (L:Start_Selector, number) 1 == (L:Start Master,number) 1 == && &&amp if{ 0 (>K:TOGGLE_STARTER3) }
(L:Starter_Button,number) 1 == (L:Start_Selector, number) 2 == (L:Start Master,number) 1 == && &&amp if{ 0 (>K:TOGGLE_STARTER2) }
(L:Starter_Button,number) 1 == (L:Start_Selector, number) 3 == (L:Start Master,number) 1 == && &&amp if{ 0 (>K:TOGGLE_STARTER1) }

Where the start selector has 4 positions and the default value (0) is engine 4. This is simplified as there are other arguments specific to the Argosy in there too. They will also require a piece of code to make the starter button disengage at a specific RPM . This will only work in FS9 of course.

Cheers

Fraser

Fraser

Cheers Fraser

Lars and Degsy didn't want to half inch the code without asking first -- The Valiant Cockpit will be a nice upgrade -- and Having seen Degsy's work on the Vulcan FDE it will make a totally new aircraft out of the Alphasim one.


Thank you again I will pass the info along to Lars -- he is almost done with the cockpit.


Leif