Simulator - software versions

Hi Klaus,

We just posted the ROW version.  Should be available for download now.  Hope this works out better for you.  If it doesn't, it is likely your combo of processor and graphics processor.  Let us know.

I would like the simulator config  to look like my unit (When I get it) 

The same confusion would exist when I want to try something on the Sim before I do it for real.

I have got lots of practice changing the data on the screen in the set up menus.

Ed

Do the sales people have the same problem with the custom datablocks when demonstrating using a real unit?

Agreed.  Please make the simulator behave like the actual flight units, and accommodate demo needs either via a preference setting or a demo-specific reset utility.

Okay, the datablock retention is going back in.  We'll post an updated sim version early in the week that has that change and the traffic thumbnail fix.

Thanks a lot Steve!

Thanks for the datablock retention fix although it has been good practice setting them up over and over again. Initially I was a little disappointed with the sim since my only previous experience with a simulator was the G600/530W product with synthetic vision which you could fly like a video game. However, after flying the 540 sim around north Florida and south Georgia yesterday with all the weather data displayed and approaches loaded in the dual sim configuration I got really excited about the capability of the unit and the sim. I have found that when running the dual version for a while the program gets out of sync whereby one unit is maybe 10 seconds ahead of the other before it ultimately freezes but nothing a restart won't fix.  

Are you still having performance issues with your sim software server setup? I have tried for a couple weeks without success to download the ROW version (1.56GB). I can't seem to get much past 300MB.

Sort of.

Two days ago, we posted the updated sim version (traffic shield selectable, datablocks persist across power cycles, and LP approaches are selectable) but we had an issue with links on the mirror server.

The Rest-of-World option is still using the mirror server for fast downloads however the Americas version is not and takes longer.    I got over my IT head in trying to fix that and gave up in favor of waiting for the IT guy to get back from vacation early next week.

So R-O-W guys should have good luck but I'm not optimistic on Americas guys for a few more days.

ROW and America's were both updated a few days ago.   As of today, we also got the mirror server working again for the America's version.  So, both should be "quick" downloads.

I was going to install the new simulator, and tried to uninstall the old version. The uninstall function in the Control Panel provided a dialog box asking if I wanted to uninstall the program, but after answering in the affirmative, nothing happened. This is with Windows 8.1. Any words of wisdom will be appreciated.

Hi Steve-

Hi Glassanza-

Edited by PA20Pacer - 27 Apr 2014 at 9:51am

I may have answered my own question regarding traffic. When I displayed the traffic thumbnail and changed the traffic alert mode to either ABOVE or BELOW, the "ghost" traffic seemed to disappear. I am still not sure what I was seeing.

Getting to spend some quality time with the simulator this weekend.

Questions about Nav frequencies:
1.  Is it true that VLOC is not simulated?  (I think you posted this before, but I can't find it.) 
1a.  If so, any chance this will be added to the simulator? I'd like to familiarize myself with the VLOC-related features.
1b.   Is the "check navaid" message simulated correctly?  The long text is"Decoded navaid Identifier did not match approach navaid".  The wording of the message implies " I tuned a real signal, it just wasn't expected", vs. "no signal found".  And the description in the manual supports the former.  Suggest at least clarification in the manual if the message long text can't be updated to something like "Approach Navaid ID not found."

2.  Simulator does not autotune the localizers.  Seems like even if the signals aren't simulated, the autotune behavior should occur.  I verified that it is configured for autotune on the Setup page.

3.  The only mechanism I've found to tune navaids (besides explicit frequency entry) is entering the three-digit ID of VORs.  This doesn't seem to work for localizers (For I-SEE, I tried "ISEE", "SEE", and I SEE").  Is there a means to quick tune localizers? 

4.  Similarly, I expected the "Freq" button to work for navaids when the NAV frequency entry was selected, but no joy there either.    Any way to quickly find and tune nearby VORs? 

A question and a suggestion:

When was the PC simulator last updated?  With my IFD 540 shipping next week, I want to make sure I get the most out of my sim-time.

Suggestion:
Add a version, date, or release notes for the current simulator download to the simulator download page.  That will save us time and Avidyne bandwidth since we'll have a means to see if the latest version matches the one we already installed.

Jon

We'll try to do that with the 10.0.2.0 version in a few weeks.