INS Alignment time

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INS Alignment time

Post by dggoofy » Sat Sep 03, 2016 2:13 pm

Hi,

I read in this forum that it seems that the INS Alignment option has an issue. What ever the slide is set, it takes about 10 minutes. Is it always so ?

I just try a flight. With slide full right, the alignement is immediate. No wait time. But I try with just a little to the left, and had to stop FSX without having received any alignement confirmation.


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I know I do nothing wrong because with the slide set to the right, it works without problem.

Cheers.

Daniel

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Re: INS Alignment time

Post by JonathanBleeker » Sat Sep 03, 2016 8:22 pm

I will investigate myself again but you do need to let it warm up in standby mode first before you move it to align. The heat light must go out by itself.

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Re: INS Alignment time

Post by dggoofy » Sun Sep 04, 2016 9:16 am

JonathanBleeker wrote:I will investigate myself again but you do need to let it warm up in standby mode first before you move it to align. The heat light must go out by itself.

that's exactly what I did... Warm up. Orange light off, then ALIGN... but 10 min. at least, even if set nearly to the full right.

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Re: INS Alignment time

Post by JonathanBleeker » Sun Sep 04, 2016 9:23 am

You were standing dead still I hope? Sometimes FSX gets a bit of a bug where the aircraft jitters with the parking brakes set which messes with the alignment. I find that releasing the chocks and holding the aircraft still with brakes only works better.

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Re: INS Alignment time

Post by dggoofy » Mon Sep 05, 2016 7:36 am

Yes, still no move. No chocks, parking brake set. I move the controls in all direction before alignment... so it should work.

I tried today again. 15 minutes to align... in the opposite direction!

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Re: INS Alignment time

Post by JonathanBleeker » Mon Sep 05, 2016 8:22 am

The Chocks and parking brake in FSX are one and the same. I meant ordinary brakes.

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Re: INS Alignment time

Post by dggoofy » Fri Sep 09, 2016 7:16 am

Hi,

Yes, try it by maintaining brakes... was long. 15 minutes without success : INS shows opposite direction to the target!

Well, hopefully, you'll find a solution to shorten a bit the wait time and solve this odd issue. Meantime, I set the INS time alignment to the right, which works.

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Re: INS Alignment time

Post by Enrico Bj » Fri Jul 28, 2017 6:24 pm

I know that this is an old topic but... I had encountered the same problem, then I found out to be the turbulence generated by the wx engine that caused eternal alignment times, now I inject the weather after the alignment procedure.

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Re: INS Alignment time

Post by JonathanBleeker » Sat Jul 29, 2017 5:27 pm

Interesting. ASN/AS16?

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Re: INS Alignment time

Post by Enrico Bj » Sun Jul 30, 2017 9:53 am

REX 3+OD ;) I've set the configuration sliders in order to have a high turbulence/shear/icing, if there are severe wx conditions while parked the AoA aural beeps like crazy.

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Re: INS Alignment time

Post by JonathanBleeker » Sun Jul 30, 2017 10:33 am

I see...Interesting. Will see what I can find.


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