Help: Gauges fail at 10,000 feet!

**Aloha717200** · 05-10-2003, 07:35 PM

Hello everyone,

I'm having some problems with my FS2002 gauges failing when my aircraft gets to 10,000 feet.

It's mostly occuring with the 737-400 panel, which I have on almost all my twin jet aircraft through aliasing.

Anyway, what's happening is that everything functions fine in the plane on the ground, during takeoff, and below 10,000 feet. But when I get to that altitude, all of my HSI gauges fail. That is, the direction indicators. the HSI, the ADF, anything that has a compass rose on it will get stuck in position and no longer function.

The only direction indicator that will still work, is the compass itself.

The other night I tried to do a 737 flight from SNA to LAS, had this gauge failure and had to turn around and land back at SNA, hoping that restarting the sim would help.

Last night, I tried the same flight again. Took off and sure enough, at 10,000 feet, all my direction indicators failed. I was too frustrated to turn back to the airport so I flew the entire flight navigating by compass only...and strangely enough, actually arrived on time! :D

(SWA flight 441 SNA-LAS, this is the flight I was doing, departure 2:10PM arrival 3:10 PM).

Now, I could continue using the compass only but it's really tedious to do so, and I'd like to get my HSI, ADF, and other direction finders working agian above 10,000, so does anyone know a way to fix this? Anyone know what might be causing this problem? I've never had it before. :(

Thanks for any help you can give.

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**greeneg** · 05-10-2003, 07:41 PM

Pitot Heat on? Static tube unblocked?

Ed Green

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bigsky825 · 05-11-2003, 02:07 AM

Still wouldn't explain his problems with the HSI, ADF, etc. Strange.

**Aloha717200** · 05-11-2003, 04:00 AM

I even tried copying the original gauges from FS2002 Disk 1 (Fs2002 cab) and pasting them into the gauges folder, overwriting the existing ones.

That didn't solve the problem.

And I'd really like to avoid reinstalling FS2002 if I can because I've got alot of stuff in my FS2002 folder that I can't back-up, I dont have enough disk space to move and save everything that would be lost if I did a reinstall, including aircraft, scenery, and sound projects I've done. So, a reinstall is out of the question. :(

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**heyer** · 05-11-2003, 07:27 AM

Are your generators running? Else your batteries may go empty...

Regards,

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**baddadnv** · 05-11-2003, 12:21 PM

.........

Or any "failures" set in 2002?

Let us know, never have seen this before?

curious,

Randy Burton

**Aloha717200** · 05-11-2003, 01:57 PM

No, no failures are set. I've checked it over and over again and nothing is armed to fail or set to fail.

I always make sure that both generators are running and almost always my altimeter setting is set to the one ATC gives me. I've never encountered this problem before.

Swtiching between NAV and GPS mode for the HSI and ADF doesn't solve the problem either. Though when failed the letters "NAV" are illuminated in red at the bottom of the HSI. Though those are sometimes there when it's working as well.

Last night I taxied my plane to the maintenance ramp at LAS, as if that'll solve anything. :-roll Extra realism I guess.

I really have no clue what could be causing this, it's just sorta happened.

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**Aloha717200** · 05-11-2003, 07:18 PM

bump

**Aloha717200** · 05-12-2003, 01:06 AM

I've tried more troubleshooting, and I can tell you what is NOT causing the problem:

Panel.cfg

I replaced the b734 panel.cfg with the one directly from the disk, didn't solve the problem.

Panel bitmaps

I also replaced these

Default gauges

These, too, have been replaced by the ones on the FS disk.

Aircraft affected:

This problem is ONLY affecting the aircraft that use the b734 panel, and my L-1011s as well, though I can't figure out why. L-1011 has a 3rd party panel and I think that panel uses a gauge similar, but not identical, to the HSI on the b734.

I'm thinking there has to be a corrupted file somewhere. This didnt start happening until recently, and if it's not the gauges, not the panel config, and not the panel bitmaps, what else could it be?

I also notice the word NAV illuminated in red is always present now, when it wasnt before, and in the L-1011, the word "OFF" in red, also with no explanation.

Strangely, the ADF in the l-1011 is unaffected, only the HSI. While in the 737, it's both.

Please, I'm running out of options here for a solution. I can't reinstall, not right now, not with the stuff I have on my hd, but I'm not sure what to do at this point. Is there ANYTHING else that I should check to see if it could be the problem? I have fsuipc.dll, could that be causing this trouble?

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**pacallen** · 05-12-2003, 01:13 AM

Why can't you just reinstall over the top of your present installation? Very little would be affected (only things like AI) but you can back those up. Otherwise I have no idea...

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