bmarvel
Member
First off, thanks for such an INCREDIBLE system! I have about 4 hours on the D-100 and HS-34 after replacing my old 6 pack and gyro system. I flew the -8A to Denver and back yesterday across the high country and had a chance to play with many of the features. I am impressed.
Here are some remaining issues/questions about my system that is working at about 99.5%:
1. I have a GX-65 and SL-30, both serially connected to the HS-34 and then via DSAB to the D-100. Both work great. However, when I set the bearing pointers to nav and sby, both bearing pointers always point to the location of the primary frequency VOR. It is as though the yellow and orange bearing pointers are locked together and cannot move separately. I've tried everything I can think of to get them to operate independently, one pointed to the primary nav location and the other pointing to the standby nav location, but no luck. They both point to the primary nav location only.
2. When the nav source is set to NAV as opposed to GPS, your description of the text block at the top of the HSI window includes DME distance to the primary nav station location. This information does not appear on my display. I do not have a stand alone DME but the SL-30 talks to the GX-65 via serial lines and displays on the SL-30 the distance to the primary nav station as if it was a DME. It seems to me that since this data is in the SL-30, it can and should be displayed as DME in the text section of the HSI window when the nav source is set to NAV just as it is shown in the text section of the HSI window when the nav source is set to GPS.
3. When I set one of the bearing pointers to GPS (as opposed to NAV or SBY) it appears to me that the GPS bearing pointer is identical in shape and color to the bearing pointer assigned to the primary nav (yellow diamond and parallel lines). This seems odd in that one would think all bearing pointers would be different.
Here are some remaining issues/questions about my system that is working at about 99.5%:
1. I have a GX-65 and SL-30, both serially connected to the HS-34 and then via DSAB to the D-100. Both work great. However, when I set the bearing pointers to nav and sby, both bearing pointers always point to the location of the primary frequency VOR. It is as though the yellow and orange bearing pointers are locked together and cannot move separately. I've tried everything I can think of to get them to operate independently, one pointed to the primary nav location and the other pointing to the standby nav location, but no luck. They both point to the primary nav location only.
2. When the nav source is set to NAV as opposed to GPS, your description of the text block at the top of the HSI window includes DME distance to the primary nav station location. This information does not appear on my display. I do not have a stand alone DME but the SL-30 talks to the GX-65 via serial lines and displays on the SL-30 the distance to the primary nav station as if it was a DME. It seems to me that since this data is in the SL-30, it can and should be displayed as DME in the text section of the HSI window when the nav source is set to NAV just as it is shown in the text section of the HSI window when the nav source is set to GPS.
3. When I set one of the bearing pointers to GPS (as opposed to NAV or SBY) it appears to me that the GPS bearing pointer is identical in shape and color to the bearing pointer assigned to the primary nav (yellow diamond and parallel lines). This seems odd in that one would think all bearing pointers would be different.