Navstax Option

[Les Parson]

Will the Navstax option include a GPS (Milviz G430 or otherwise) for the VC?

[Krazycolin]

Hi Les,

the Navstax option isn't, as far as I know, even released yet. Not sure when they will release it either. I've asked Mike but... no joy yet. (www.navstax.com for info).

Bill? did we put a gps unit in? I think we had initially but it was removed... Not sure.

[Les Parson]

Thanks Colin,

I checked out their website and while it's not yet released, the pictures look promising and an excellent complement to the Milviz C310R.
As I recall, there seemed to be an almost perfect place for a single G430 to the right of the avionics suite.

[Krazycolin]

I know we DID have one but I think, we decided to remove it for some (dumb) reason...

Bill will let us know if it's possible to add it.

[Les Parson]

Ok, many thanks. By the way, on a different topic, I'm just curious what the bug was/is? I flew it yesterday for recurrent training and it was absolutely flawless.

[Krazycolin]

Three bugs. WXR in FSX SE was throwing incompatibles, there were some navstax errors, and the rain... oh yes... the rain... it was going backwards.

[Les Parson]

I see said the blind man. I'm in Texas and we have lots of backward rain here, among other things.

[N4GIX]

I know we DID have one but I think, we decided to remove it for some (dumb) reason...

Bill will let us know if it's possible to add it.

At your request Colin, I disabled the GNS430 in the NavStax options. However, it is still available by a simple edit of the console_NavStax.xml scripts in the ..\panel\console sub-folder. Changing the zero (0) to one (1) will re-enable the GNS430:

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      <Value>
        (L:Init,bool) !
        if{
        1 (>L:NavStax,bool)
        0 (>L:MV_GNS430,bool)
        1 (>L:MV_KAP140,bool)
        2 (>L:KAP140_GTX330_Move,bool)
        1 (>L:Init,bool) }
      </Value>

In fact, a truly clever person could easily substitute a F1 GNS430, F1 GTN650, or even an RXP GNS430 in that same position by simply editing these files, and copy/pasting the necessary panel.cfg entries.

[Krazycolin]

There ya go! PIE!!!

[Les Parson]

Thank you so much Bill and Colin. I've got the C310 setup just the way I want it and am just waiting on Navstax to release; they (Kevin) said within about one week.

[Les Parson]

Hi Bill,

It looks like Navstax has just released their Bendix/King Avionics package. My question is will the MVAM selection of 'NAVSTAX WX' include the single GNS 430 or should I perform the manual adjustment you described a few posts prior to this one, back in March?

PD - At the moment there is a minor PayPal payment issue on their end which should be corrected in a few minutes.

[Les Parson]

I have now installed the Navstax Bendix package and used the GPS fix (RXP430) as Bill has listed in the earlier post. The package looks great in the C310 Redux with only a display issue on the Bendix #2 NAV/COM. I have described that issue on the Navstax forum.

[ificratis]

Hello,

I also ordered the Navstax today and I'm intersting in integrating my RXP GNS430 GPS unit.

I followed the advice of Bill above, but for some reason the RXP 430W does not work properly. My edit is the following:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Gauge Name="console_freeradio" Version="1.0">
  <Element>
    <Select>
      <Value>
        (L:Init,bool) !
        if{
        1 (>L:NavStax,bool)
        1 (>L:NavStax_WX,bool)
	1 (>L:RXP_GNS430,bool)
        1 (>L:MV_WX,bool)
        1 (>L:MV_KAP140,bool)
        2 (>L:KAP140_GTX330_Move,bool)
        1 (>L:Init,bool) }
      </Value>
    </Select>
  </Element>
</Gauge

Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I guess I'm missing the panel.cfg entries, however I can't make it work even after altering these. Any help would be appreciated

[N4GIX]

The only thing that will do is instruct the model to show the mesh object and textures for the GNS430. You must also edit the required entry for the actual gauge in the [VCockpit01] section of your NaxStax_Panel.cfg file to use the RXP rather than the default FB_GNS430_2 gauge:

gauge08=C310_XMLGauges!FBS_GNS430_2, 0,451,640,262

[ificratis]

Thank you very very much Bill!

It works perfect now.