Your videos are so professionally done with such valuable content I can say nothing other than Well Done & Thank You!. Even complex topics are presented in such an orderly and informative way that even us newbies can understand and take value from them. Wish that your channel's subscribers and views multiply exponentially, as they should. Thanks again for your efforts --S
@sparkyholden3977 - Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you're enjoying the content, and fining it helpful and informative. If you haven't watched it already, be sure to check out the video on the Working Title upgrades to the GNS 530/430. They've made a lot of improvements to it with quite of few new features. It is a phenomenal emulation of the real world unit. The videos on it are available here: th-cam.com/video/T4VOBh0W4_s/w-d-xo.htmlsi=GX_3mSg02fXYpItD th-cam.com/video/Q9tR8NjShno/w-d-xo.htmlsi=CPiVviZOBJKb0S0M Thanks for watching!
I do try to make it accessible for those new to aviation or flight sim. Thanks for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed the content, and thanks for watching!
Once again Exceptional explanation. I really am enjoying these tuitorials and look forward to the others. As my son is now a flight instructor I am hoping to surprise him next time we are as to how much I can set up preflight.. Thanks again.
Glad you found the content helpful @Hal_Bundy. Hope you were able to impress your son! I have put out a newer tutorial on this unit that covers the upgrades Working Title has installed in the unit. That's available here: th-cam.com/video/T4VOBh0W4_s/w-d-xo.htmlsi=xp62_QY_FoCfFVSE Thanks for watching!
Glad you found the content helpful, @michaelalleyne7245. I just released a new video covering the upgrades Working Title has made to these receivers with their update. Make sure and check it out if you get a chance: th-cam.com/video/T4VOBh0W4_s/w-d-xo.html. Thanks for watching!
Very nice playlist. Thanks. When it comes to adding waypoints in the MSFS World Map, I have found it best to work backwards from the destination to the arrival. This prevents the MSFS flight planner from putting waypoints in the wrong order, like you were having to deal with several times, such as 1:16:30
@@AlphaHotelFlightSimulation I meant to say, "work backwards from the arrival to the departure." But the key concept is to work backwards along the route of flight. This seems to confuse MSFS less than working forwards.
Glad you enjoyed it, Michael - and thanks for watching. If you haven't already, I recommend picking up the GNS530/430 mod at Github - it fixes a lot of bugs and adds a lot of features not present in the default version in flight sim.
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate and enjoy your videos. While I haven’t flown for 18 years, your tutorials are really helping me get back to it now that I have been using MSFS. Microsoft should be paying you for your extremely high quality content. I can’t thank you enough.
Thanks for the kind words, Marc. I'm glad you're enjoying the content! Flight Simulator is one of the things that drew me into aviation many years ago (I won't mention what edition that was...) I've been blown away with how well done the scenery is in MSFS 2020. I can't help but stare out the window when I'm making videos. It's helped me re-connect with my GA roots - letting me re-visit old stomping grounds, and explore some new ones. And reminding me of why we love flying so much!
Yes, Navigraph charts should work fine. It really shouldn't matter what charts you use, so long as they are current. With the Working Title upgrades, I think the database on the GNS 530 & 430 are now up to date and kept up to date with the current ARINC database - so it should have the most current procedures. Thanks for watching!
On the 430 it will tune in to a VOR and you can use the VOR on number two. However in flight Sim you cannot navigate with the auto pilot using VOR #2. I don’t know if this is the same in the real world but I would think not. The only purpose for dialing in a radial on VOR #2 is to find the cross radial that identifies the published fix or intersection. Some cases necessary for an altitude change due to a published minimum crossing altitude as noted on the chart with a flag that has a “X” in the box. Not really needed if you fly by GPS since the GPS can find the fix if you put it in your flight plan.
Aviation Trucker - all true. I think this is how it would operate on an aircraft configured like this in the real world, as most autopilots configured like this can't be switched between nav radios. In addition to using nav 2 for identifying cross radials, you can also use it to fly feeder routes or initial approach segments on things like ILS approaches, where you would want to use nav one to intercept the the localizer.
Nice video. Dont people like to fly manually anymore? :-) Is there a way to set up the 530 to have GPS disabled and use the CDI? I know you mentioned a mode to associate the CDI to the Garmin but what would it show? I find sitting around as the plane flies to be boring so I'm looking for scenarios that keep me busy. I wouldn't wanna do this for 4 hour flights but ya know what I mean.
@josephbruno6058, that's the beauty of flight sims - you can fly a whatever manner is most enjoyable for you! Pressing the CDI button on the bottom left of the unit will toggle the associated VOR display between VOR/LOC information and GPS information. So you can navigate using the GPS, VOR, NDB, or just visually if you want to. You can also load a flight plan in the GPS and manually fly the GPS course guidance. Just leave the autopilot off.
Glad you enjoyed the content, Richard - and thanks for watching! The 530 does not have an ADF receiver in the unit like the G1000 - but the 172 classic does have a separate ADF receiver. Here is a segment on how to use it from my ADF/NDB video: th-cam.com/video/ialMYJomyZU/w-d-xo.html
steelyerface21, you can use the "CDI" button on the bottom left side of the GPS, or in the 172 you can use the white button that is labeled "NAV GPS" just above the #1 nav radio
Thanks Stan. Glad your enjoying the content & thanks for watching! The headset I use is a Jabra Biz 1500 call center headset. A friend of mine from church used it during zoom church meetings during covid & when I was thinking about starting the channel. I thought the same as you - "That has a great aviation headset sound!" So I picked one up from Amazon. I actually used a different mic for non-flying segments initially, but thought the audio quality was better with the headset - so I just use that for everything now. Jabra Biz 1500 USB Duo Wired Call Center Professional Headset a.co/d/aq6n5TB
Great video thank you! Is there any way that one can find the progress to a defined waypoint? (Rather than manually adding up the individual distances on the FPL legs page). Useful to calculate TOD
I don't think you can see cumulative distance to a defined waypoint on the GNS 430/530 like you can on the G1000, and I don't think working title's upgrades to the units changed this since they are going for accuracy in replicating the units, rather than ease of use and utility. PMS50 (the group that puts out the GNT 750) does have a mod that will allow the unit to do this (as well as allowing it to display DME on a localizer, among other changes,) but I haven't used it since the WT mods were released on the marketplace, and don't know if they are compatible. Glad you enjoyed the video, and thanks for watching!
Thank for video, I hope we will have 3rd party 530/430 soon, I invest in rearsimgear but sometime the software just hang. By the way, in real aircraft,did gns530 and 430 sync their data or acting as separate unit?
Glad you enjoyed the video, JurassicHog. 1 There is actually a 3rd party 530 mod available. Here is the link to it: github.com/pimarc/pms50-gns530#gns530-mod I appears to add a great deal of functionality to the unit, and seems to correct some of the most frustrating bugs - though I just downloaded it myself, and have not yet had a chance to explore it's capabilities very thoroughly.
Thanks Scott, glad you enjoyed the video. I’m planning to make a tutorial on the mod, but don’t know how soon it will happen. I also want to talk to the mod author before I do so.
I find it really difficult and time consuming to use the mouse to try to turn the knobs to enter route/waypoints etc. Is there a setting that makes it easier to turn the knobs or maybe can use the keyboard?
iholland1869, there is a way to use a keyboard to interface - *IF* you are using the working title upgrade that is available through the marketplace (for free, for all users.) I highly recommend installing that mod if you haven't done so already. Here is a demo of how it works on the G1000, but it basically works the same on the WT GNS 530/430. (I plan to do a video on the WT upgrade at some time in the not too distant future, I just don't know exactly when yet.) th-cam.com/video/Pi1KP4NW534/w-d-xo.html
I have a query. With an aircraft running its engine and fully powered up, I then input the flight plan. However after 2-3mins the whole sat nav shuts down and just gives a blank screen. What am I doing wrong or is this a FS2020 bug?
Can you tell me which setting in controls will let me set the push in button on CRSR small knobs to activate the highlighter. I have tried and for the life of me can't get the right button on the mouse to activate this. I seem to have to hit both mouse buttons at the same exact time and that always doesn't work. I'd like to just set it up for the activation to work by pushing in the mousewheel. Thanks.
@Bigg_Driver, you should be able to just click it with your left mouse button, like with most of the other buttons in the cockpit. It may be that your camera view is sligtly off, obscuring the button (or click point,) so you might try moving it so it's directly in front of the GPS.
@@AlphaHotelFlightSimulation I eventually found it. Theres a setting in control panel to go to i think classic for pc and a different one for multiple platform like with controller.
Alexander, On the 172 When in VLOC mode (displaying Vor information) the top cdi is wired to nav1 (which is in the 530) and the bottom cdi is wired to nav 2 (which is in the 430.) When in GPS mode, the top cdi will display GPS course information. This technically comes from both units, as they are linked, and nav entries into one will be carried over to the other automatically. The bottom cdi will always display course information from nav 2 (VOR/Loc) cannot be switched to display any GPS course information.
A few things to check, Brian: 1) Make sure the frequency for the VOR you want to use is in the active frequency position in the 530's VOR frequency box - that would be the top position/white numbers. Hit the button with the V and the up and down arrow to swap the frequencies out. 2)Make sure the #1 nav is set to display VOR info. You can use the CDI button on the 530, or the nav/gps button above nav 1. The 530 should say "VLOC" in the bottom left corner when you are receiving VOR info, the #1 nav green "NAV" indication should illuminate, and the white "GPS" indication will go blank, and the display next to the NAV/GPS button should display a white "NAV" indication. 3) Make sure you are in range of the VOR you are trying to receive. VORs only have a range of about 70 miles at lower altitudes (less if you are lower than 1000 ft AGL or in mountainous terrain.) If you are receiving a VOR signal, the 530 will display the 3 letter of the identifier of the station, the radial you are currently on, and the distance (if the station has DME,) below the frequency box, and the off flag on the right side of the VOR 1 display should disappear.
@@AlphaHotelFlightSimulation hey thanks for the reply. So I figured out that the 430 activates the one CDI and the 530 activates the other one (Seneca, big one right in front of you). I wasn’t looking at the correct CDI.
i dont get it, the new FS has a full featured 530 in it? and what about the database, how current is it. i have the RXP530 for p3d that uses the actual garmin simulator embedded, i know the unit in and out but it is crippled by the outdated database... how does this compare?
Krisztian - I assume you're talking about the Working Title upgrade to the GNS 530/430. I honestly don't know if they load their own database in the system or not - I know several 3rd party FMS mods like the 787 heavy division mod and the FBW 320X do. I can tell you that I've flown a lot of IFR procedures (including SIDS, STARS and approaches,) with the working title products (both 530/430 and G1000 NXI,) and the procedures seem to be accurate and in line with currently published charts. This is for the US, so I can't speak to non-US procedures.
@@AlphaHotelFlightSimulation Hi man working title? I guess it's for the Microsoft flight simulator then, because I never heard of that. I use prepar3d. we just have the RXP or flight one product but the last one is even more outdated. The gist of my comment was that on AVSIM forum basically a copyright\ban terror is going on against anyone who try to implement the new cycles for the GNS and I assumed that this is partly because in real life nobody uses that unit anymore. for the GTN there is a relatively new database made by a difficult hack. unofficial of course. what I do know that RXP The real GNS memory image so if I could get my hand on one from a real unit that is a few months old and not legal to fly I probably could install that on the virtual unit. anyways I would check out this working title what this is all about
As always - thank you for another excellent video.
Would you be able to recommend a resource to help transition from C152 to C172 in terms of speeds and RPMs (relative to the extensive info you provided in your basic flight instruction series)?
Also, are you aware of the great 530 / 430 “mod” that implements a decent number of the features missing from Asobos's rendition of this GPS duo? forums.flightsimulator.com/t/gns530-mod/296598
A long list of added features and usage instructions: github.com/pimarc/pms50-gns530#gns530-mod
Michael - thanks, and glad you enjoyed it. Planning to put together a transition course video for the 172 (among other planes - though that will likely be the first one I tackle.) May be a while, though - as I want to finish up the Private Pilot level training on the 152 first, and still have a few videos to go there. Here are some rough numbers to tide you over: Vy = 55 KIAS Vy = 74 KIAS Vapch = 65 KIAS 2400 RPM works out well for cruise, and will get you about 105 indicated, or about 115 true/groundspeed. Fuel burn is about 10 GPH in flight sim, a little higher than the 8 GPH the book says you should get. It's also not difficult to find a manual for the 172 online to get specific numbers and procedures for that aircraft. Just make sure you get a manual for the 172S, as that's the model in flight sim.
Also, saw your mention about the mod on the 530/430. Had not heard about it before you mentioned it - but will check it out, and see about maybe doing a differences training video on it, if the author has not done so already. Looks like a good mod. The addition of vnav alone probably makes it worthwhile.
@@AlphaHotelFlightSimulation Thank you. In that case - I will just wait for your videos. I am not entirely new to flight simulation, but I am definitely new to trying to do flight simulation correctly ;-) So have plenty of training I can continue doing with the 152 and your existing videos. Just once in awhile it's fun to jump into an airplane with autopilot and let it do some (well, most?) of the work :-)
@@AlphaHotelFlightSimulation yes, some missing functionality and bugs fixed. I'm glad I mentioned it then. I thought maybe you chose to focus on the 'stock' version because, well, that is the default. I have not actually tried the stock implementation as I only got MSFS in March of this year. By which time the mod has gone through many iterations and works quite well by now (and quite a bit better than stock; or so I'm told). I'm sure Asobo will eventually fix and enhance all the avionics, but at this rate it looks like it may take them some YEARS... BTW - if you ever start with videos for G1000, G3000, more advanced planes, etc, there are some massive improvements made by the community to those as well (e.g. Working Title in case of Garmin avionics and Citation CJ4 github.com/Working-Title-MSFS-Mods/fspackages ). So great in fact that Microsoft / Asobo hired that team and is planning on rolling their improvements into the core sim overtime ( drive.google.com/file/d/1Z6mPvucvYgVrEKpzrnJiNb-we7vO1DOb/edit )
@@michaelchomiczewski7937 , I know what you mean. Part of the reason I've enjoyed making this series is that I can use the autopilot and not hand fly everything. I usually focus on the "stock" versions of planes/avionics so folks don't have to go download/install a mod to be able to use the videos - but I will take a look at some of the mods that are out there. Some I may have to use (for example, the multi-engine aerodynamics in FS 2020 are horrible, but there's a good mod for the DA62 that tweaks them to where they are much more realistic. Will probably use that for multi training/DA62 checkout.) I am familiar with Working Title. I don't have their G1000 mod, but I've got their CJ4 mod, and it is excellent. They do good work.
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Finally someone who goes slow enough so I can keep up with what' going on. Also the red cursor helps a lot.
Glad you found the video helpful Tom. Thanks for watching and subscribing!
Your videos are so professionally done with such valuable content I can say nothing other than Well Done & Thank You!. Even complex topics are presented in such an orderly and informative way that even us newbies can understand and take value from them. Wish that your channel's subscribers and views multiply exponentially, as they should. Thanks again for your efforts --S
@sparkyholden3977 - Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you're enjoying the content, and fining it helpful and informative.
If you haven't watched it already, be sure to check out the video on the Working Title upgrades to the GNS 530/430. They've made a lot of improvements to it with quite of few new features. It is a phenomenal emulation of the real world unit. The videos on it are available here:
th-cam.com/video/T4VOBh0W4_s/w-d-xo.htmlsi=GX_3mSg02fXYpItD
th-cam.com/video/Q9tR8NjShno/w-d-xo.htmlsi=CPiVviZOBJKb0S0M
Thanks for watching!
By far the best video that covers the 530/430...amazing job!!
Thanks GVM! Glad you enjoyed it!
This is really incredibly valuable for those of us new to aviation and MSFS. Well done!
I do try to make it accessible for those new to aviation or flight sim. Thanks for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed the content, and thanks for watching!
Once again Exceptional explanation. I really am enjoying these tuitorials and look forward to the others. As my son is now a flight instructor I am hoping to surprise him next time we are as to how much I can set up preflight.. Thanks again.
Glad you found the content helpful @Hal_Bundy. Hope you were able to impress your son! I have put out a newer tutorial on this unit that covers the upgrades Working Title has installed in the unit. That's available here: th-cam.com/video/T4VOBh0W4_s/w-d-xo.htmlsi=xp62_QY_FoCfFVSE
Thanks for watching!
Great job on explaining the flight plan on the 530/430 thanks.
Glad you found the content helpful, @michaelalleyne7245. I just released a new video covering the upgrades Working Title has made to these receivers with their update. Make sure and check it out if you get a chance: th-cam.com/video/T4VOBh0W4_s/w-d-xo.html.
Thanks for watching!
Excellent VID and training. Thank you for taking the time to produce this.
Glad you enjoyed it Tom. Thanks for watching!
Glad you found it helpful, Tom. Thanks for watching!
Excellent verbal and visual instruction - thank You!
Thanks Kerry. Glad you enjoyed the content, and thanks for watching!
Very nice playlist. Thanks.
When it comes to adding waypoints in the MSFS World Map, I have found it best to work backwards from the destination to the arrival. This prevents the MSFS flight planner from putting waypoints in the wrong order, like you were having to deal with several times, such as 1:16:30
Glad yo enjoyed the playlist & appreciate the tip - I will try it out!
@@AlphaHotelFlightSimulation I meant to say, "work backwards from the arrival to the departure." But the key concept is to work backwards along the route of flight. This seems to confuse MSFS less than working forwards.
Excellent instructions on the 530 / 430. Thank you...
Appreciate the effort you put into this!
Glad you're enjoying the content. Thanks For watching!
Great video 👍🏼 going to pick up a Realsimgear GNS 530 for my flight sim panel.
Glad you enjoyed it, Michael - and thanks for watching.
If you haven't already, I recommend picking up the GNS530/430 mod at Github - it fixes a lot of bugs and adds a lot of features not present in the default version in flight sim.
Top notch tutorial. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it Britt. Thanks for watching!
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate and enjoy your videos. While I haven’t flown for 18 years, your tutorials are really helping me get back to it now that I have been using MSFS. Microsoft should be paying you for your extremely high quality content. I can’t thank you enough.
Thanks for the kind words, Marc. I'm glad you're enjoying the content! Flight Simulator is one of the things that drew me into aviation many years ago (I won't mention what edition that was...)
I've been blown away with how well done the scenery is in MSFS 2020. I can't help but stare out the window when I'm making videos. It's helped me re-connect with my GA roots - letting me re-visit old stomping grounds, and explore some new ones. And reminding me of why we love flying so much!
Wow, very nice job sir! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it Gaston. Thanks for watching!
Just discovered your channel and great video and content
Glad you're enjoying it John - Thanks for watching!
Excellent = thank you very much
Glad you enjoyed it Paddy. Thanks for watching!
Very well done...!!
Glad you enjoyed it, Jeremy. Thanks for watching!
Excellent video - good pacing on explanation. You used SkyVector - will it work in similar fashion with Navigraph charts?
Yes, Navigraph charts should work fine. It really shouldn't matter what charts you use, so long as they are current. With the Working Title upgrades, I think the database on the GNS 530 & 430 are now up to date and kept up to date with the current ARINC database - so it should have the most current procedures.
Thanks for watching!
On the 430 it will tune in to a VOR and you can use the VOR on number two. However in flight Sim you cannot navigate with the auto pilot using VOR #2. I don’t know if this is the same in the real world but I would think not. The only purpose for dialing in a radial on VOR #2 is to find the cross radial that identifies the published fix or intersection. Some cases necessary for an altitude change due to a published minimum crossing altitude as noted on the chart with a flag that has a “X” in the box. Not really needed if you fly by GPS since the GPS can find the fix if you put it in your flight plan.
Aviation Trucker - all true. I think this is how it would operate on an aircraft configured like this in the real world, as most autopilots configured like this can't be switched between nav radios.
In addition to using nav 2 for identifying cross radials, you can also use it to fly feeder routes or initial approach segments on things like ILS approaches, where you would want to use nav one to intercept the the localizer.
Thanks for the help! If anyone just wants to learn how to enter a flight plan, check out 52:24
Glad you enjoyed the content, and thanks for the time marker to help folks find that section. Thanks for watching!
Nice video. Dont people like to fly manually anymore? :-) Is there a way to set up the 530 to have GPS disabled and use the CDI? I know you mentioned a mode to associate the CDI to the Garmin but what would it show? I find sitting around as the plane flies to be boring so I'm looking for scenarios that keep me busy. I wouldn't wanna do this for 4 hour flights but ya know what I mean.
@josephbruno6058, that's the beauty of flight sims - you can fly a whatever manner is most enjoyable for you!
Pressing the CDI button on the bottom left of the unit will toggle the associated VOR display between VOR/LOC information and GPS information. So you can navigate using the GPS, VOR, NDB, or just visually if you want to. You can also load a flight plan in the GPS and manually fly the GPS course guidance. Just leave the autopilot off.
Just what I needed! Step by step! Say, can the 530 do ADF?
Glad you enjoyed the content, Richard - and thanks for watching!
The 530 does not have an ADF receiver in the unit like the G1000 - but the 172 classic does have a separate ADF receiver. Here is a segment on how to use it from my ADF/NDB video: th-cam.com/video/ialMYJomyZU/w-d-xo.html
how did you switch from the VOR mode to the localizer mode i didnt see a button pressed ?
steelyerface21, you can use the "CDI" button on the bottom left side of the GPS, or in the 172 you can use the white button that is labeled "NAV GPS" just above the #1 nav radio
Great video. Most appreciated. The audio in much of this sounds like an aviation headset. Sounds great! How did you do the audio?
Thanks Stan. Glad your enjoying the content & thanks for watching!
The headset I use is a Jabra Biz 1500 call center headset. A friend of mine from church used it during zoom church meetings during covid & when I was thinking about starting the channel. I thought the same as you - "That has a great aviation headset sound!" So I picked one up from Amazon. I actually used a different mic for non-flying segments initially, but thought the audio quality was better with the headset - so I just use that for everything now.
Jabra Biz 1500 USB Duo Wired Call Center Professional Headset a.co/d/aq6n5TB
Great video thank you! Is there any way that one can find the progress to a defined waypoint? (Rather than manually adding up the individual distances on the FPL legs page). Useful to calculate TOD
I don't think you can see cumulative distance to a defined waypoint on the GNS 430/530 like you can on the G1000, and I don't think working title's upgrades to the units changed this since they are going for accuracy in replicating the units, rather than ease of use and utility.
PMS50 (the group that puts out the GNT 750) does have a mod that will allow the unit to do this (as well as allowing it to display DME on a localizer, among other changes,) but I haven't used it since the WT mods were released on the marketplace, and don't know if they are compatible.
Glad you enjoyed the video, and thanks for watching!
@@AlphaHotelFlightSimulation ok thanks for the super comprehensive update - really appreciated! Keep up the great videos 👍🏽
Thank for video, I hope we will have 3rd party 530/430 soon, I invest in rearsimgear but sometime the software just hang. By the way, in real aircraft,did gns530 and 430 sync their data or acting as separate unit?
Glad you enjoyed the video, JurassicHog. 1
There is actually a 3rd party 530 mod available. Here is the link to it:
github.com/pimarc/pms50-gns530#gns530-mod
I appears to add a great deal of functionality to the unit, and seems to correct some of the most frustrating bugs - though I just downloaded it myself, and have not yet had a chance to explore it's capabilities very thoroughly.
@@AlphaHotelFlightSimulation Love your videos. Very professional and informative. Any chance of producing a tutorial using the gns 530 mod
Thanks Scott, glad you enjoyed the video.
I’m planning to make a tutorial on the mod, but don’t know how soon it will happen. I also want to talk to the mod author before I do so.
@@AlphaHotelFlightSimulation That’s great to hear. I’m really interested in it’s use with IFR flight plans. Thank you
I find it really difficult and time consuming to use the mouse to try to turn the knobs to enter route/waypoints etc. Is there a setting that makes it easier to turn the knobs or maybe can use the keyboard?
iholland1869, there is a way to use a keyboard to interface - *IF* you are using the working title upgrade that is available through the marketplace (for free, for all users.) I highly recommend installing that mod if you haven't done so already.
Here is a demo of how it works on the G1000, but it basically works the same on the WT GNS 530/430. (I plan to do a video on the WT upgrade at some time in the not too distant future, I just don't know exactly when yet.)
th-cam.com/video/Pi1KP4NW534/w-d-xo.html
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I have a query. With an aircraft running its engine and fully powered up, I then input the flight plan. However after 2-3mins the whole sat nav shuts down and just gives a blank screen. What am I doing wrong or is this a FS2020 bug?
jjsmallpiece9234, make sure you have both sides of your Master (ALT/BAT) and both sides of the avionics master turned on.
Can you tell me which setting in controls will let me set the push in button on CRSR small knobs to activate the highlighter. I have tried and for the life of me can't get the right button on the mouse to activate this. I seem to have to hit both mouse buttons at the same exact time and that always doesn't work. I'd like to just set it up for the activation to work by pushing in the mousewheel. Thanks.
@Bigg_Driver, you should be able to just click it with your left mouse button, like with most of the other buttons in the cockpit. It may be that your camera view is sligtly off, obscuring the button (or click point,) so you might try moving it so it's directly in front of the GPS.
@@AlphaHotelFlightSimulation I eventually found it. Theres a setting in control panel to go to i think classic for pc and a different one for multiple platform like with controller.
is it true that top cdi is hard wired to 530 and lower cdi is hard wired to 430? and you can not switch top cdi to work with 430
Alexander,
On the 172 When in VLOC mode (displaying Vor information) the top cdi is wired to nav1 (which is in the 530) and the bottom cdi is wired to nav 2 (which is in the 430.)
When in GPS mode, the top cdi will display GPS course information. This technically comes from both units, as they are linked, and nav entries into one will be carried over to the other automatically.
The bottom cdi will always display course information from nav 2 (VOR/Loc) cannot be switched to display any GPS course information.
When I type in my VOR frequency and activate it why doesn’t my CDI come alive?
A few things to check, Brian:
1) Make sure the frequency for the VOR you want to use is in the active frequency position in the 530's VOR frequency box - that would be the top position/white numbers. Hit the button with the V and the up and down arrow to swap the frequencies out.
2)Make sure the #1 nav is set to display VOR info. You can use the CDI button on the 530, or the nav/gps button above nav 1. The 530 should say "VLOC" in the bottom left corner when you are receiving VOR info, the #1 nav green "NAV" indication should illuminate, and the white "GPS" indication will go blank, and the display next to the NAV/GPS button should display a white "NAV" indication.
3) Make sure you are in range of the VOR you are trying to receive. VORs only have a range of about 70 miles at lower altitudes (less if you are lower than 1000 ft AGL or in mountainous terrain.) If you are receiving a VOR signal, the 530 will display the 3 letter of the identifier of the station, the radial you are currently on, and the distance (if the station has DME,) below the frequency box, and the off flag on the right side of the VOR 1 display should disappear.
@@AlphaHotelFlightSimulation hey thanks for the reply. So I figured out that the 430 activates the one CDI and the 530 activates the other one (Seneca, big one right in front of you). I wasn’t looking at the correct CDI.
Glad you got it figured out, Brian. "Switchology" can sometimes confuse the most experienced pilots! 😄 Happy flying!
I don't watch anything relating to msfs20- ms had their chance and blew it again.
i dont get it, the new FS has a full featured 530 in it? and what about the database, how current is it. i have the RXP530 for p3d that uses the actual garmin simulator embedded, i know the unit in and out but it is crippled by the outdated database... how does this compare?
Krisztian - I assume you're talking about the Working Title upgrade to the GNS 530/430. I honestly don't know if they load their own database in the system or not - I know several 3rd party FMS mods like the 787 heavy division mod and the FBW 320X do.
I can tell you that I've flown a lot of IFR procedures (including SIDS, STARS and approaches,) with the working title products (both 530/430 and G1000 NXI,) and the procedures seem to be accurate and in line with currently published charts. This is for the US, so I can't speak to non-US procedures.
@@AlphaHotelFlightSimulation Hi man working title? I guess it's for the Microsoft flight simulator then, because I never heard of that. I use prepar3d. we just have the RXP or flight one product but the last one is even more outdated. The gist of my comment was that on AVSIM forum basically a copyright\ban terror is going on against anyone who try to implement the new cycles for the GNS and I assumed that this is partly because in real life nobody uses that unit anymore. for the GTN there is a relatively new database made by a difficult hack. unofficial of course. what I do know that RXP The real GNS memory image so if I could get my hand on one from a real unit that is a few months old and not legal to fly I probably could install that on the virtual unit. anyways I would check out this working title what this is all about
As always - thank you for another excellent video.
Would you be able to recommend a resource to help transition from C152 to C172 in terms of speeds and RPMs (relative to the extensive info you provided in your basic flight instruction series)?
Also, are you aware of the great 530 / 430 “mod” that implements a decent number of the features missing from Asobos's rendition of this GPS duo?
forums.flightsimulator.com/t/gns530-mod/296598
A long list of added features and usage instructions: github.com/pimarc/pms50-gns530#gns530-mod
Michael - thanks, and glad you enjoyed it.
Planning to put together a transition course video for the 172 (among other planes - though that will likely be the first one I tackle.) May be a while, though - as I want to finish up the Private Pilot level training on the 152 first, and still have a few videos to go there.
Here are some rough numbers to tide you over:
Vy = 55 KIAS
Vy = 74 KIAS
Vapch = 65 KIAS
2400 RPM works out well for cruise, and will get you about 105 indicated, or about 115 true/groundspeed. Fuel burn is about 10 GPH in flight sim, a little higher than the 8 GPH the book says you should get.
It's also not difficult to find a manual for the 172 online to get specific numbers and procedures for that aircraft. Just make sure you get a manual for the 172S, as that's the model in flight sim.
Also, saw your mention about the mod on the 530/430. Had not heard about it before you mentioned it - but will check it out, and see about maybe doing a differences training video on it, if the author has not done so already. Looks like a good mod. The addition of vnav alone probably makes it worthwhile.
@@AlphaHotelFlightSimulation Thank you. In that case - I will just wait for your videos. I am not entirely new to flight simulation, but I am definitely new to trying to do flight simulation correctly ;-) So have plenty of training I can continue doing with the 152 and your existing videos. Just once in awhile it's fun to jump into an airplane with autopilot and let it do some (well, most?) of the work :-)
@@AlphaHotelFlightSimulation yes, some missing functionality and bugs fixed. I'm glad I mentioned it then. I thought maybe you chose to focus on the 'stock' version because, well, that is the default. I have not actually tried the stock implementation as I only got MSFS in March of this year. By which time the mod has gone through many iterations and works quite well by now (and quite a bit better than stock; or so I'm told). I'm sure Asobo will eventually fix and enhance all the avionics, but at this rate it looks like it may take them some YEARS...
BTW - if you ever start with videos for G1000, G3000, more advanced planes, etc, there are some massive improvements made by the community to those as well (e.g. Working Title in case of Garmin avionics and Citation CJ4 github.com/Working-Title-MSFS-Mods/fspackages ). So great in fact that Microsoft / Asobo hired that team and is planning on rolling their improvements into the core sim overtime ( drive.google.com/file/d/1Z6mPvucvYgVrEKpzrnJiNb-we7vO1DOb/edit )
@@michaelchomiczewski7937 , I know what you mean. Part of the reason I've enjoyed making this series is that I can use the autopilot and not hand fly everything.
I usually focus on the "stock" versions of planes/avionics so folks don't have to go download/install a mod to be able to use the videos - but I will take a look at some of the mods that are out there. Some I may have to use (for example, the multi-engine aerodynamics in FS 2020 are horrible, but there's a good mod for the DA62 that tweaks them to where they are much more realistic. Will probably use that for multi training/DA62 checkout.)
I am familiar with Working Title. I don't have their G1000 mod, but I've got their CJ4 mod, and it is excellent. They do good work.