Post by Tom Goodrick on Nov 25, 2008 11:46:21 GMT -5
I just want to alert current readers of this Forum of a common problem we run into with radios that don't seem to be tunable. It happened to me yesterday flying my Baron 58P.
If you put your mouse on the frequency display for one of the radios and click to change the number and see no result, the solution is in the aircraft.cfg file. Any .cfg file is just a text file. teach your computer to read them like any other text file.
Look for the section:
[Radios]
// Radio Type=availiable, standby frequency, has glide slope
Audio.1=1
Com.1=1, 0
Com.2=0, 0
Nav.1=1, 0, 1
Nav.2=1, 0, 0
Adf.1=1
Transponder.1=1
Marker.1=1
This is just an example I grabbed quickly and happens to be already set for direct clicking on the frequency. The key is the second number in each row. If it is a 1, then you must put the radio in standy by mode before you can change the frequency. If you cannot put it in such a mode, you are out of luck.
The only fix while flying is to pause, load in another aircraft and then edit the aircraft.cfg changing the 1 to a 0. Save the aircraft.cfg file with the change and then load your aircraft back into the sim and resume flight. There will be a slight disruption in flight as the sim starts with zero pitch trim. Also the flight timer will reset to zero.
This problem occurs when absent-minded people (like me) change the panels and then forget to clean everything up.
If you put your mouse on the frequency display for one of the radios and click to change the number and see no result, the solution is in the aircraft.cfg file. Any .cfg file is just a text file. teach your computer to read them like any other text file.
Look for the section:
[Radios]
// Radio Type=availiable, standby frequency, has glide slope
Audio.1=1
Com.1=1, 0
Com.2=0, 0
Nav.1=1, 0, 1
Nav.2=1, 0, 0
Adf.1=1
Transponder.1=1
Marker.1=1
This is just an example I grabbed quickly and happens to be already set for direct clicking on the frequency. The key is the second number in each row. If it is a 1, then you must put the radio in standy by mode before you can change the frequency. If you cannot put it in such a mode, you are out of luck.
The only fix while flying is to pause, load in another aircraft and then edit the aircraft.cfg changing the 1 to a 0. Save the aircraft.cfg file with the change and then load your aircraft back into the sim and resume flight. There will be a slight disruption in flight as the sim starts with zero pitch trim. Also the flight timer will reset to zero.
This problem occurs when absent-minded people (like me) change the panels and then forget to clean everything up.
