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RLBJr.
Joined: 26 Mar 2004
Posts: 93
Location: Washington, D.C.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:37 am Post subject: My aircraft headings are 90 degrees off course. |
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| How do I "re-set" my aircraft headings? When I'm on the ground, sitting on the runway, prior to taking off, and the runway heading is North, I'm showing a heading of East. No matter which aircraft I'm in. No matter what city or airport I'm departing from. This heading discrepancy persists during the flights too. How this mistake began, I don't know, but for the last few days, I've been noticing it. What can I do to restore accuracy, ( as a default ), to all my aircraft headings? I'm using FS2002Pro. THANK YOU...... |
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Max
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Posts: 673
Location: LQSA
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| Press V...that is for reseting you HSI (Heading Situation Indicator) to the normal value...or use the trimming know ob the side and do it manually...it's done in real aviation. |
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RLBJr.
Joined: 26 Mar 2004
Posts: 93
Location: Washington, D.C.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:52 am Post subject: Thanks Max for your response. |
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| Do you have any idea how this might have happened in the first place? What I may have done to cause this problem, without realizing I'd done it? Let me know what you think. Thanks.........and, since all my aircraft exhibit this problem, I'll have to re-set the heading indicators in each one of them, individually. That's what I'm trying to avoid. Is there a way to solve the problem all at once? Apparently, I caused it all at once. |
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RLBJr.
Joined: 26 Mar 2004
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Location: Washington, D.C.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:16 am Post subject: One more thing, Max....... |
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| Even when I re-set the heading indicator, ( using your suggestion ), my magnetic compass, ( the "wet" compass ), remains 90 degrees off course. There's no knob available for resetting the magnetic compass. There's a central problem that I must have caused. Whatever it is, ( whatever I've done ), has effected the headings of all the aircraft. That's the problem I need to solve. Can you help me? Can anyone out there PLEASE help me? Maybe I inadvertantly re-aligned my flight sim's world by engaging the slew selector, and then turning it off again, but with my flight sim's world out of alignment. Is that a possibility? I don't know how to properly use the slewing, and I'm not knowledgeable of all the potential of slewing. So, I don't know. Has anyone out there got any ideas? |
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groundsquirrel
Joined: 10 Mar 2004
Posts: 3685
Location: Navarre,Florida-USA (KVPS,KHRT,KPNS)
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:23 pm Post subject: Hmmmmmmmm, |
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| Are you using the default flight to start up with, or have you saved a new default flight? Also, check your key assignments to see which one is used to correct the magnetic variation, in 2k4 it's the "D" key, I dont remember which one in 2k2 as it's been awhile. As to the default flight issue, if you saved a new default flight with the error in place, that would explain it. Another option is to delete the Fs2002.cfg file and then restart FS to generate a new default configuration file and see if the problem went away. Usually, I just rename the .cfg file to .cfg.old so I still have it in case that wasnt the answer and I want to return to my tweaked .cfg setup. |
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Virgin
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| ;) maybe you need a compass swing hehehe |
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peebee
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Joined: 14 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:23 pm Post subject: 90 degree turn |
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Hi RLB
My system: FS2002 pro
I feel for you, as I have the same problem but in my case it is 180 degrees. I re-installed (pain) but that fixed the problem temporarily and I will live with it untill I get it fixed.(90 degrees would drive me batty though)
I also installed 3D glasses recently and played around with the slew gismo so I may have to look in that direction. If I come up with something I'll contact the forum. Rest assured you are not on your own cheers, peebee |
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