Blackbird Sims / Milviz Forum Archive

I really enjoy this plane and is now the plane I fly most often.

I am using a Saitek Multi Panel with Spad.next and most of the functions work quite OK and I can set heading etc on the panel.

However, the altitude display shows 40000 at start-up and does not respond to changes I make in the VC.

I am not that up to speed with all the Spad.next functions. Is there a profile for the 301 Redux that I can download somewhere or a variable that will read the alt setting of the autopilot in the 310 Redux.

Thanks.

Johan Pienaar

Hi John,
I am another user/customer like you. I too have the Multipanel and it works well with most of my aircraft models. This model is an exception. I too have had difficulty like you describe. I wore myself out trying to get the two to cooperate. This AP is modeled very close to real world. More so than others have done. It may be that real world complexity that causes use of the variables that are difficult to call from Spad:Next. My system/FSX installation also does not like something regarding LVAR in Spad:Next, which is also a barrier.

I finally gave up as I found that if I just unplugged the Multipanel when flying this Redux I could very easily perform all of the autopilot functions in the VC with my mouse. That's the way I fly this model.

At this point I use the Multipanel for models like the Carenado C90B where the AP is out of sight low on the quadrant console.

Frank P