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C5testplt 
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 Topic: Wind data block emptyPosted: 02 Nov 2020 at 8:22pm |
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Well I finally dropped the big bucks (after doing an IFD 540/APX 340/ AMX 240 upgrade 4 yers ago).
I now have an EI MVP 50 and Dual G5’s installed. The extra integration is great I see the winds displayed on the UTIL-CALCULATOR page, but when I select WIND VECTOR for display on the left data block, it always shows up as dashes. I installed the latest IFD 540 software in May 2020. Any ideas?
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paulr
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Posted: 03 Nov 2020 at 8:08am |
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To get the wind vector, you need both TAS and heading data. TAS depends on OAT. You didn't say whether your G5s include the OAT probe; if not, that's probably the problem. If you do have OAT on the G5, then I'm out of guesses.
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c17testplt
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Posted: 12 Nov 2020 at 10:22pm |
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Thanks for the reply. You may have skipped the details. The IFD already is showing the winds and TAS on the UTIL CALCULATOR page --my OAT is coming from the MVP-50. It seems odd that the IFD 540 will calculate and show the data on the UTIL pages but NOT when i set them for display on the left data blocks. Wierd
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Posted: 13 Nov 2020 at 8:18am |
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You're right-- I thought you meant that you could use UTIL-CALCULATOR to figure the winds, which is totally not what you actually wrote.
Since one of the things I most want to work after my Aspen upgrade is the wind vector block, I'm very interested in seeing what you find out.
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