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Flight1 Skycatcher now free

No PFD/MFD Gauges?

I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but my 162 installation has no Garmin PFD or MFD.

The two instruments are "dead" on the panel - no clickspots at all.

Pressing SHIFT-2 and SHIFT-3 does nothing.

In the panel.cfg, the gauges are called up:
gauge00=F1_G300!G300 PFD, 0,0,785,1027,POPUP
gauge00=F1_G300!G300 MFD, 0,0,785,1027,POPUP

But there are no such gauges in the FSX Gauges folder (or anywhere in the FSX folder).


There is a F1_G300.gau file in the FSX Gauges folder, though.

Anybody else have this problem?

Should I try re-installing the Skycatcher?
 
jschall said:
I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but my 162 installation has no Garmin PFD or MFD.

The two instruments are "dead" on the panel - no clickspots at all.

Pressing SHIFT-2 and SHIFT-3 does nothing.

In the panel.cfg, the gauges are called up:
gauge00=F1_G300!G300 PFD, 0,0,785,1027,POPUP
gauge00=F1_G300!G300 MFD, 0,0,785,1027,POPUP

But there are no such gauges in the FSX Gauges folder (or anywhere in the FSX folder).


There is a F1_G300.gau file in the FSX Gauges folder, though.

Anybody else have this problem?

Should I try re-installing the Skycatcher?
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Don't know about your missing files but I think I found another missing file that P3d was looking for and didn't find, neither did I. See my # 18 ^
 
jschall said:
I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but my 162 installation has no Garmin PFD or MFD.

The two instruments are "dead" on the panel - no clickspots at all.

Pressing SHIFT-2 and SHIFT-3 does nothing.

In the panel.cfg, the gauges are called up:
gauge00=F1_G300!G300 PFD, 0,0,785,1027,POPUP
gauge00=F1_G300!G300 MFD, 0,0,785,1027,POPUP

But there are no such gauges in the FSX Gauges folder (or anywhere in the FSX folder).


There is a F1_G300.gau file in the FSX Gauges folder, though.

Anybody else have this problem?

Should I try re-installing the Skycatcher?
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F1_G300.gau file is the only file you need and you have it in your Gauges folder. The PFD and MFD are contained within it.
 
MustangL2W said:
RealAir will be forever missed for what they did. The Duke and Turbine Duke are just such great FSX Airplanes, but I'm sure everyone here already knows that!! I still fly the Dukes a lot
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As of now I am in the middle of a RTW in the normally aspirated Duke.
 
THE GARMIN YES ME ALSO ..HELD BACK TO GET REVIEWS I SEE NOW ITS NOT JUST ME GARMEN PROBLEM..FURTHER ITS A FRAME KILLER BEFORE I SWITCH ON?? MY FRs ARE OVER 80 GARMIN SWITCH ON?? SINGLE NUMBERS! DID D/L Twice one The auto D/lL Then From My DESK TOP..MANUEL.SAME.SAME RESULTS..... FRAME ...BELOW 8..THE GARMIN? NONOPERATIVE..WITH OUT THE GARMIN ON?? FLYS NICE GARMIN ON...NO WAY....BEGS THE QUESTION??? WHATS WRONG///CAN IT BE FIXED?? THNX!
 
How do I turn on the Garmin?

napacon said:
THE GARMIN YES ME ALSO ... I SEE NOW ITS NOT JUST ME GARMEN PROBLEM...GARMIN SWITCH ON?? ...THE GARMIN? NONOPERATIVE...WITH OUT THE GARMIN ON?? FLYS NICE GARMIN ON...NO WAY...WHATS WRONG///CAN IT BE FIXED??
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@napacon:
I hope you found a solution to that problem.

May I ask, how do you turn the Garmin on and off?
 
The GARMIN works off the battery switch. Turn the battery on GARMIN comes on ..... turn battery off GARMIN off. Only works with Cold and Dark setup.
 
gray eagle said:
I installed it to P3D and got these error messages, did anyone else get these - is this a bug or what is the fix?

error1.jpg


error.jpg



As far as I can tell the file F1dataimport.exe could not be found. Once I click the ok's then P3d will load the cessna I selected.
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Can anyone that has this free cessna find under the gauges folder a file called F1DataImport.exe, I see no such file and P3d is looking for it. I installed it to a dummy folder and went looking for
it and it's not there.

I see that other P3D users here have managed to get this running with no issues.

This forum discusses same issue about the F1DataImport.exe file issue
http://www.simforums.com/forums/database-update_topic48690.html
 
gray eagle said:
Can anyone that has this free cessna find under the gauges folder a file called F1DataImport.exe, I see no such file and P3d is looking for it. I installed it to a dummy folder and went looking for
it and it's not there.

I see that other P3D users here have managed to get this running with no issues.

This forum discusses same issue about the F1DataImport.exe file issue
http://www.simforums.com/forums/database-update_topic48690.html
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If you follow the guide in the link in #27, that should do the trick. I did and it's all working now in P3D v3.4.
 
gray eagle said:
Can anyone that has this free cessna find under the gauges folder a file called F1DataImport.exe, I see no such file and P3d is looking for it. I installed it to a dummy folder and went looking for
it and it's not there.

I see that other P3D users here have managed to get this running with no issues.

This forum discusses same issue about the F1DataImport.exe file issue
http://www.simforums.com/forums/database-update_topic48690.html
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From those screenshots mate your problem lies in the path you show there. On your P:\ drive when you are doing the install delete the Program Files(x86) from the path and try the installation and see if that works.

 
AussieMan said:


On your P:\ drive when you are doing the install delete the Program Files(x86) from the path and try the installation and see if that works.
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From what I understand :https://www.howtogeek.com/129178/why-does-64-bit-windows-need-a-separate-program-files-x86-folder/
Can't do that mate look at the path were P3D is installed, P3d currently is a 32 bit program therefore it uses the (X86) folder just like FSX does or any 32 bit program for that matter.
P:\Program Files (x86)\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v3 <<<<< The file structure includes (X86) where all P3d addons go including airplanes.

At any rate, the installer asks for the Flight Sim to put it on i.e FSX/P3d and installs to the flight sim you tell it to.

Bottom line, I reinstalled it and it's all ducky now.
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