Update 0.2:
Some people reported conflicts between page switching and automatic frequency changes. Therefore keybings for changing pages are changed:
- page left/right: "increase/decrease autopilot reference altitude"
- page up/down: "increase/decrease autopilot reference vs".
New feature: automatic log. If activated in interface settings speed, altitude gained, time and average groundspeed for the current flight are logged.
More bugfixes and text corrections.
For more in depth info about setting up glider flights, planning and using this mod for navigation check out David Aldrich's excellent video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftn-_smpZ0c&t=1537s
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First things first: not a single line of code in this project would have been possible without the amazing work, "B21" has done on the AS33 and lots of other gliders. Large parts are a simple copy to bring features like task management and thermalling info over to the discus.
This mod replaces the nav computer in Touching Cloud's DG808S (https://de.flightsim.to/file/30384/dg-flugzeugbau-dg-808s), adding a lot of features for cross country flying and racing. Information is divided into multiple pages as in real life LX devices. Pages can be changed by "turning" the rotary knobs on the bottom of the screen. See the included readme file for details.
To install unpack the zip file to a temporary loaction, do what the readme is named for and copy the included folder "touchingcloud-aircraft-dg808s-lxn" to your community folder.
A known issue: if a flight takes a little longer to load, the map might fail to inititalize. Simply hit escape and restart the flight in that case.
This mod is a copy of my mod for GotFriend's Discus (https://de.flightsim.to/file/41623/discus-2c-lxn-nav-replacement) sharing internal strorage variables, so all settings and configurations will be shared between aircraft if you install the mod in both.
A big thank you goes out to the nice people on the discord servers of Sim Soaring Club and Got Gravel for being so supportive, encouraging and coming up with challenging feature requests. You should definitely come around and fly with them.
2 months ago
spectrun
Is this still working? I can't make it replace the default screen at all.
10 months ago
absolutely works. Make sure, you copy the right folder to your community folder. Just copy the folder "touchingcloud-aircraft-dg808s-lxn" folder, not the whole contents of the zip.
10 months ago
CaptnJackBilbo
zaelu
Thank you very much for this mod, a must have, it has very useful tools helping soaring/gliding. Is it adaptable to the AS33?
1 years ago
Thanmks for the kind words and sorry for the delay. Wouldn't make much sense to adapt this mod to the AS33 because frankly most of it is already adapted the other way round. Most functions and even large parts of the source code are directly copied from B21's flight computer in the AS33.
1 years ago
CaptnJackBilbo
fStopper
Hello !
Nice tool but I have a question... I'm using DG-808S with Kinetic Assistant wich provides its own tow plane. Is it possible to deactivate the tow plane coming with your mod because now I'm connected to the 2 tow planes !?
Good job, thx !
Lionel
1 years ago
Hi Lionel, there is no tow plane included in this mod. I suppose what you see is the ingame launch option. When setting up a flight, click on the glider top left, select "launch method" and then "autonomous launch" (bottom option with placeholder image) to spawn on the runway without tow plane. Then activate kinetic assistant.
1 years ago
CaptnJackBilbo
lionhellll
Must have. I've nothing more to add.
1 years ago
pentakot
Quick question. How do I turn on the navigation? I only see three setting buttons and nothing else.
1 years ago
Hi. You can swipe through several pages. Just click and drag the screen with your mouse or bind the respective key for page right/left/up/down (in v0.2 it's autopilot altitude +/- and autopilot vs +/-). See the included readme for more details.
1 years ago
CaptnJackBilbo
pentakot
Works perfectly, looks great
and is a great upgrade for the plane.
It is compatible with SU11,
thanks for that
1 years ago
Quassel89
Which serie of lxn nav do we download
1 years ago
Not sure what you mean. This is not build after a real life LX-Device, only loosly based.
1 years ago
CaptnJackBilbo
wstrazzer
Detailed Manual would be an advantage
1 years ago
True, i have to admit, i'm not good at documentation. So far the readme is all there is. Maybe a good new years resolution to improve on that. In the meantime i can recommend joining the sim soaring club discord: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/gliders-sim-soaring-club-weekly-group-flights/446772 - lots of experienced people there and a knowledge base maintained by people that know a lot more about gliding than i do.
1 years ago
CaptnJackBilbo
wstrazzer
Oh man. Thank you.
1 years ago
deepstar
Beautiful and high -quality work! This is the best addition to the DG-808S glider! Thanks a lot!
2 years ago
ANRIMI
thank you.Still have to figure out how this work.And looking forward to get the skill and be a better pilot.
2 years ago
Ricochet83