TreeTops wrote: ↑29 Nov 2022, 06:37
My bad. I got too interested in the radios part.
Styggron wrote: ↑29 Nov 2022, 03:23
Also how do you have both ADF's on, there is only a switch that switches to left and one that switches to the right on the panel.
A2A B337 Pilots_Manual_For_COTS.pdf pg 57.
1. Audio Selector Switches (5 in a row) - both left and right ADF switches on for audio monitoring if required.
2. RMI Single Needle Switch (left side) - switch to ADF : set to 394 (Dundee)
3. RMI Double Needle Switch (right side) - switch to ADF : set to 348 (Dyce Aberdeen)
So you see, points 2 and 3 allow the single and double needles to both indicate NDB signals on the Dual RMI gauge.
There is no either/or switch, only ADF/NAV selection on either side.
This allows both NDB, both VOR or an NDB/VOR combination.
If either of the RMI Needle Switches are set to NAV instead of ADF you will not pick up the NDB on that side.
Thank you Treetops.... however.
Sorry but looking at all 3 A2A manuals, page 57 does not correspond to your points. [EDIT: See my edit below re the manuals, it's interesting]
1. Stratocruiser_pilots_manual .pdf page 57 is "Chapter 6: propellars"
2. B377_Accusim_Manual.pdf does not have a page 57
3. Accusim_COTS_Manual.pdf page 57 has the heading "new systems" and has no mention of radios
I do not have one called A2A B337 Pilots_Manual_For_COTS.pdf
Looking at Accusim_COTS.pdf page 52 starts with "Navigator's Station".
Page 54 shows "Navigators Radios" and shows the panel and text pointing to each switch. Is this the page you mean? Page 57 is "Chapter 6 Propellers"
There is no visible Version control on the document so either you made a typo or there is a different version of the files.
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EDIT: I just went to the A2A shop, went to B377 and they had a single manual download whose file was different to mine, it was called "B337 Pilots_Manual_For_COTS.pdf". Just like you said.
Sure enough, scrolling to page 57, it was the same as page 52 of the manual I had. I got this manual at the time from the website. I did not think to check the manual installed in the FSX directory was different, I had no cause to think that but they are different. The FSX installed one had the name you said above and was 160 pages.
Looks like they updated the manual but did not update the website at the time.
Therefore, we were actually both right. It is page 57 for your manual but page 54 on my manual. I have adjusted my text below as well.
Again, no version control I can see in the document but different filenames. No version control makes it hard to be consistent in matching manuals.
From what I can see, all they did is combine the three manuals I listed above into 1. I had a look at the APU section hoping there was more info (see my point about APU below) but it was just the same as my previous manuals unfortauntely so I still don't know what some switches there do).
The manual in the shop right now (I just checked) is the 160 page one, the same as is installed in the FSX directory. A2A B337 Pilots_Manual_For_COTS.pdf
The reason I had the other manuals is that before I bought A2A products, I downloaded every manual they had on the website in 2015 when I first discovered A2A.
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With your next point
On page 54 (the manual I had but 57 on the new manual), bottom centre. l It says "ADF Signal selector Switch"
If your frequency tuned on the left ADF and the right ADF should both turn up on the RMI, what is the point is the "ADF Signal selector Switch"?
**Is it to perhaps engage the "ADF Tuning Meter" shown in the centre? There is only 1 meter so maybe the switch indicated which ADF the meter is using? This would make sense.
**if so, it is really the kind of thing that should be added to the manual.
**To me in seemed to imply it needs to be left to receive left and right to receive right but you said that was not the case.
Unfortunately the manual still needs a few little updates for things like this and also the APU portion
**it does not say what the 3 position power switch does entirely, run obviously runs the APU, off turns it off but what does A.P.P position do?
** Also the voltage selector on the APU what do all the other positions do? another thing the manual does not cover at all, sure it tells you on the check list what to have it as, but if a switch has multiple positions, I believe a manual should at least tell you what they all do).
Audio selector -odd issues.
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I usually put the audio selectors on which is why I revisited this issue.
When they are on you should get the morse code when the NDB is in range and by extension, the RMI needle should move.
Well for me this is not the case, often I hear the audio but that RMI needle does not move, then sometimes all of a sudden it **might** change. Seems to be inconsistent.
The B377 was released in 2011 and I bought it in 2015 and updated it several times, so it can't be something that is still a bug everyone would have picked up on it if it was.
What I will try next
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Thanks to our kind reply, at least I know
*** if both ADF's are tuned to the frequencies, it does not matter what the centre "ADF selector switch" is set to, left or right, when the NDB is within range, the RMI needle **should** turn.
So next up.
1. Put in both frequencies in the ADF's left and right
2. Ensure BOTH RMI single/double needle selector switches are set to ADF
3. It will not matter what the bottompanel centre "ADF selector switch" is set to, as hopefully my guess is what I wrote above, probably for the meter.
4. Fly North East toward Dundee and Dyce and ......... see what happens.
I will try to do this flight in the next 48 hours and report back.
Thank you again for jumping in to help TreeTops, I much appreciate it.
I love the B377 and my A2A/Air Craft Fleet so much....... I'm not leaving FSX.
I would only ever swap to FSXI (I call it this because it is flight sim 11) if there was a way to get my FSX ones into FSXI.
NEVER giving up my A2A planes. The planes are more important to me than the sim itself and their performance on FSX is second to NONE.