Re: Avionics power up

[manises]

Hiya,
Anybody help me on the following?
When using some aircraft downloaded from Flightsim, the artificial horizon
indicator appears to be off. ie it just skews over to one side of the display
and refuses to move. This does not affect the backup instrument and only
affects some aircraft. Do I need to switch something else on? Thanks

pghfd,
If I've understood your problem right, you need to operate the "backup electric
vacuum pump", which is activated (on default settings) by CTRL + U.
Several applications of this keyboard combination should cure the problem.
If you want to assign this function to some other key, key combination or
joystick button, go to OPTIONS, CONTROLS, ASSIGNMENTS and scroll down the list
(quite a long way) until you reach:
Backup electric vacuum pump on/

Hope this helps,
Peter Preston

[artburke]

Hiya,
Anybody help me on the following?
When using some aircraft downloaded from Flightsim, the artificial horizon
indicator appears to be off. ie it just skews over to one side of the display
and refuses to move. This does not affect the backup instrument and only
affects some aircraft. Do I need to switch something else on? Thanks

Look in the menu for your ASSIGNMENTS. There's a backup vacuum system. Assign
something not currently being used (like CTRL+ALT+V). If the vacuum system
fails, just press your magic keys and watch the AI right itself!
Art

[artburke]

Hiya,
Anybody help me on the following?
When using some aircraft downloaded from Flightsim, the artificial horizon
indicator appears to be off. ie it just skews over to one side of the display
and refuses to move. This does not affect the backup instrument and only
affects some aircraft. Do I need to switch something else on? Thanks

Look in the menu for your ASSIGNMENTS. There's a backup vacuum system. Assign
something not currently being used (like CTRL+ALT+V). If the vacuum system
fails, just press your magic keys and watch the AI right itself!
Art

P.S. When you post or reply PLEASE ONLY PRESS THE DAMN SEND BUTTON ONCE! It's
like pressing the elevator button over and over - the elevator doesn't get
there any faster.

You now accidentally have posted your request for help about 25 times. Press
the SEND button once and please wait patiently for the return to the read mode.


At your earliest opportunity, please go back and KILL (only you and the
webmaster can do it!) the extra messages so everyone else won't have to look at
them unnecessarily -please!
Art

[olbobf]

Hiya,
Anybody help me on the following?
When using some aircraft downloaded from Flightsim, the artificial horizon
indicator appears to be off. ie it just skews over to one side of the display
and refuses to move. This does not affect the backup instrument and only
affects some aircraft. Do I need to switch something else on? Thanks

It's run by a gyroscope that is powered off of the vacumn pump! If the engine
isn't running, the vacumn pum p won't be either. If the engine is running and
it still doesn't work, go to the Options-Controls-Assignments menu. Scroll down
to close to the bottom to find a line reffering to the Vacumn pump backup being
on or off. Assigh a key combination to it (I use Ctrl-V). Now you can turn it
on if it isn't working.
Gee I hope all the ensuing messages by you aren't repeats!

Bob F.

[joewatson]

Hiya,
Anybody help me on the following?
When using some aircraft downloaded from Flightsim, the artificial horizon
indicator appears to be off. ie it just skews over to one side of the display
and refuses to move. This does not affect the backup instrument and only
affects some aircraft. Do I need to switch something else on? Thanks

I wouldn't answer this if I could!....Don't need but one post!
Joe W.

[oldtimepilot]

Hiya,
Anybody help me on the following?
When using some aircraft downloaded from Flightsim, the artificial horizon
indicator appears to be off. ie it just skews over to one side of the display
and refuses to move. This does not affect the backup instrument and only
affects some aircraft. Do I need to switch something else on? Thanks

Look in the menu for your ASSIGNMENTS. There's a backup vacuum system. Assign
something not currently being used (like CTRL+ALT+V). If the vacuum system
fails, just press your magic keys and watch the AI right itself!
Art

P.S. When you post or reply PLEASE ONLY PRESS THE DAMN SEND BUTTON ONCE! It's
like pressing the elevator button over and over - the elevator doesn't get
there any faster.

You now accidentally have posted your request for help about 25 times. Press
the SEND button once and please wait patiently for the return to the read mode.

At your earliest opportunity, please go back and KILL (only you and the
webmaster can do it!) the extra messages so everyone else won't have to look at

them unnecessarily -please!
Art

Art, I may have mis-counted, but I counted 37 repeated posts.
Jesse

[artburke]

Hiya,
Anybody help me on the following?
When using some aircraft downloaded from Flightsim, the artificial horizon
indicator appears to be off. ie it just skews over to one side of the display
and refuses to move. This does not affect the backup instrument and only
affects some aircraft. Do I need to switch something else on? Thanks

Look in the menu for your ASSIGNMENTS. There's a backup vacuum system. Assign
something not currently being used (like CTRL+ALT+V). If the vacuum system
fails, just press your magic keys and watch the AI right itself!
Art

P.S. When you post or reply PLEASE ONLY PRESS THE DAMN SEND BUTTON ONCE! It's
like pressing the elevator button over and over - the elevator doesn't get
there any faster.

You now accidentally have posted your request for help about 25 times. Press
the SEND button once and please wait patiently for the return to the read mode.

At your earliest opportunity, please go back and KILL (only you and the
webmaster can do it!) the extra messages so everyone else won't have to look at

them unnecessarily -please!
Art

Art, I may have mis-counted, but I counted 37 repeated posts.
Jesse

Ironically, when I signed on last night I got kind of excited. It looked like
there were a bunch of posts! There were - but that was a lot of BS wasn't it?
Art