SIMUFLY.COM Discussion Forums

SIMUFLY.COM Discussion Forums
https://www.simufly.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl
Delco Carousel IV-A INS For Microsoft Flight Simulator >> Delco Carousel IV-A INS For Microsoft Flight Simulator >> DME Updating
https://www.simufly.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1188053658

Message started by JohannT. on Aug 25^th, 2007, 3:54pm

Title: DME Updating
Post by JohannT. on Aug 25^th, 2007, 3:54pm

Hi there,

i just go one question about the DME Updating process, although it nearly always works fine for me, if i enter the DME elevation, i first press 2, thereafter i can insert the elevation and press INSERT...but how exactly ( i read the tutorial flight some time ago and it wasn't really clear to me) do i enter the elevation...let's say the DME is at 1500ft ...what do i do? Press 1 5 then INSERT or how is it exactly entered...?

Regards and thanks for your great great addons...at the moment it's getting me across the atlantic on a DC-10 ;) (the only thing that would improve it would be a real CDU unit , like the hardware you can buy for FMC's to use with FS9)

johann

Title: Re: DME Updating
Post by Marco Ravanello on Aug 31^st, 2007, 8:50am

DME Station height has to be specified in thousands of feet. Minimum value is 0, maximum value is either 15 or 16, I don't remember right now. So if you insert "15" the INS will consider it to be 15000 feet ASL, which is not your case.
I'd say (Gianfranco knows for sure) that 0~4 is rounded to 0 and 5~9 to 1 so 1500 should be inserted as 02 (2000 feet)

Regards
Marco

Title: Re: DME Updating
Post by JohannT. on Sep 1^st, 2007, 7:16pm

thanks...