C172 GPS operation

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jinyong.pan
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C172 GPS operation

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Hello,

A question regarding GPS for C172 trainer. It's quite small. So I clicked the GPS panel the "2D" GPS panel popped out. How do I type in say the airport code? The knob doesn't work and I can't use keyboard.

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John

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Nick - A2A
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Re: C172 GPS operation

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Hello John,

In both 3D and the 2D pop-up gauge you can use the scroll wheel on your mouse to rotate the inner and outer GPS knobs and the left click action to press the inner one.

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Just to add to Nicks post, once you get the cursor in the GPS in FSX and P3D you can then use the keyboard to type ICAO's etc.

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jinyong.pan
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Re: C172 GPS operation

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awesome. what about the other avionics. How can I bring the 2D up? The most avionics i'm using is GPS and autopilot.

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John

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Nick - A2A
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Re: C172 GPS operation

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Hello John,

In terms of the avionics, it's only the GPS gauges which have 2D pop-up equivalents. However, by default you can move through additional cockpit views including a close-up of the radio stack by using the 'A' key.

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Nick
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