Hello Gents

I have just started with the INS and was already busy  for one day .
Came up with a situation of which I don't know how to handle.
Did the TUT flight (KBOS - KMIA) in the B737-400 - FS9, had to save the flight and cont. it  this morning. Now after several hours I am still not flying for I keep getting a Red Warn light and codes 2 63. Whatever I do I can not get them out.
I found out that when saving the flight the info of the INS is not saved at the same time, so that has to be done separately.
So I continued the flight from an intermediate airport, in this case ORF.
This means I have to align the INS again using this airport coordinates.
Here is where the trouble starts.
I even started all over again but with no results.

Then there is also the situation of putting the gauges at some place on the panel. How do I find the coordinates for the spot where I will have the gauges.?????

Is there some one who can help me out.

Regards

Carlos

I have seen those videos titled "INS Tutorial" on YouTube.com and I must say that, although they're not totally incorrect, they're far from representing a good, informational, visual guide. They have not been made by us, nor they are officially "endorsed" by us.

I never had the chance to discuss about these videos with Gianfranco but I'm sure his verdict would be even more negative than mine  

Regards
Marco

Trying to answer original Carlo's questions...

If you look at the docs, 02 63 is a (fatal) randomly generated failure, which could in fact be triggered also by some unusual situations (so wrong conditions) of the INS.

If the 02 63 you experienced was in fact triggered by the random failure generator then you were simply not very lucky , the virtual hardware you had on board failed, it may happen!

> I found out that when saving the flight the info of the INS is not
> saved at the same time, so that has to be done separately.

There is a specific procedure to save INS state, see SituationSaveAndReload.pdf

> This means I have to align the INS again using this airport
> coordinates.
> Here is where the trouble starts.

Are you sure you entered them correctly?

> Then there is also the situation of putting the gauges at some place
> on the panel. How do I find the coordinates for the spot where I will > have the gauges.?????

There is a "trick"! You should locate the panel main bitmap, which is generally in the same folder where the panel.cfg is. If you edit it with any image editing or viewing software, you could easily find out the coordinates of the UPPER RIGHT corner where the gauge you want to place should stand. You could also, from that point, open up a selection as a rectangle, to find out height and length you'll have to specify, in panel.cfg, as gauge's dimensions. You will for sure not get them right at the first try, you'll need some more tries to refine the coordinates, but it is quite easy. Otherwise you can buy FS Panel Studio.

Regards
Marco

Hello Steveric

When I do a CTRL + ; I get a reset of the FS9.
Anyhow after a good nights rest IO started fresh this morning and having the engines out and waiting for 5 min to warm th INS up everything wnet smooth.
I even did a save and reload and DME updating without troubles.

Question: " Why should we have DME cards". Does that mean all the waypoints are VOR/DMEs, and what is it used for????
Can't we insert waypoint and DMEs together?
Say point 2 is a fix and point 3 is a DME etc.
In most cases the flightplan will have far more fixes than VOR/DMEs.

How do I get the LAT/LONG of a VOR/DME??
If the DME is at an airport, do I take the airprt LAT/LONG???
The map in FS9 doesn't gives the LAT/LONG of a DME at an airport.

Anyhow this was a good start and now I will try the TUT of the SSTSIM Concorde, which will even be a bigger job to accomplisch.
Thanks to all of you, helping me out.
Sure I will have some more questions later.

Kind regards

Carlos