Hi Peter,
Thanks for the feedback and questions! I'm still really new to this so anything that helps me to learn is much appreciated!
dromer1967 wrote: ↑29 Apr 2021, 03:31
Is there a reason why you are not sharing the profile on the aerosoft forum? It was the first place I went looking for a Honeycomb Bravo A2A C172 profile (to discover then that there wasn't one yet at that time).
Mostly because I was hoping to get some feedback on my first profile or two, since I've never done anything like this before. I figured I had a better chance of getting that feedback if I posted them here on a fairly active forum. I'll be posting them over there pretty soon I imagine. I'm (very) slowly working my way through my fleet and will be adding more profiles as I finish them.
dromer1967 wrote: ↑29 Apr 2021, 03:31
Always fun to see how each of us creates his own solution to mapping buttons and such
I see that you have mapped the KAP140 Up and Down buttons to the Yoke. I skipped the KAP140 outerknob functionality and put the up/down on the rotating knob of the Bravo depending on the mode you select so I have all the AP functions in one place. Selecting the altitude with just the inner knob seems fast enough for me since the 172 is not meant to fly that high anyway
I like that solution too! I really struggled with the decisions on a few of those AP buttons and the knobs. The Cherokee was much easier from that perspective! I'm so used to having AP functionality on the yoke with the Cherokee (I probably have more hours in that than in the rest of my fleet combined) it made sense to me to assign a couple of the KAP140 buttons to the yoke as well.
dromer1967 wrote: ↑29 Apr 2021, 03:31
Could you tell me why you turn the low ful pressure annunciator on when either fuel pressure < 0.5 psi or A2A Fuel Annunciator ON? I would say that the latter is enough? Because if the A2A annunciator is not ON then neither should the Bravo light be on?
I went a little back and forth on this one as well. At first I only used fuel pressure < 0.5psi (the same number I used on the Cherokee from the Cherokee manual) and didn't tie in the Fuel Annunciator light at all. My thoughts there were that the LED on the Bravo is specifically a fuel
pressure warning while it is my understanding that the annunciator on the 172 for tied to fuel
level. While low fuel levels can lead to low fuel pressure, you could also conceivably have full tanks but still have low fuel pressure (perhaps a blockage somewhere or a leak). Whether or not such a scenario could actually occur in the sim I don't know.
Then I decided to add the Fuel Annunciator parameter as well since:
a) it's a related issue and there are no other appropriate LED's on the Bravo for low fuel,
b) there is an actual annunciator light for this in the sim, and
c) more chance for an LED to light up = more fun
Of course with both parameters being used there isn't exactly a one-to-one correspondence in functionality between the C172 and the Bravo anymore, and that is usually something I'm aiming for with these profiles (though not always getting there). So it's possible that I will change that at some point. I guess it decides on which side of the bed I wake up on: use the LED for an existing annunciator (low fuel), or use it for it's stated purpose (low fuel pressure). Or continue to use it for both.
Of course I could be completely misunderstanding what triggers the Fuel Annun in the 172 in which case there really would be no need for both parameters.