RFN Tacan Question

[PinkBaron]

RFN TACAN Gauge

Hallo,
I am completely new to this community and I tried now four times to make my TACAN Gauge work. I have read all the descriptions of probable errors and can not get a clue.
Checked every file and directory that is important for the function, but no joy.
Although the frequencies laid down in the RFN_Carrier.xml and of the TACAN gauge are the same the program tells me that no carrier (CDG) or FCLP tuned.
Can anybody state that the gauge still works after all the Miccisoft windows 10 updates ?
Seems to me that the have killed the support of their own kind.
Tried to contact Mr. Parouty directly but no joy.

Regards Hans.

 

[mpni]

Hi Hans
I confirm that the gauge is OK with Windows 10 (1809 - 17763.379).
Did you install RFN gauge 5.0?
Did you install the correct version (64 for P3Dv4)?
Regards
Michel

 

[hardlucksam]

RFN Tacan Gauge

Actually, I had a bit of difficulty with the gauges myself at first. As stated above; make sure you use either the 32 bit or the 64 bit.
By chance; are you *assuming that all the ai carriers will show* in the menu? They will not. Go to http://www.fs-shipyards.org/index.php?ind=downloads You will find some ai carriers. I also have questioned where all the carriers listed in the menu are found. No idea where they came from.
This is my choice in the panel.cfg:

gauge00=RFN_CarrierGauge64!Close_Subpanel, 0, 2, 18, 18, c11501
//--------- RFN TACAN NG -------
gauge01=RFN_CarrierGauge64!Aircraft_Carrier_Indicator_NG, 3, 0, 300, 310 <---New gauge
//gauge02=RFN_CarrierGauge64!Radio_Tacan_Panel, 0, 311, 300, 110 <---use // to block old gauge
//--------- RFN TACAN Classic -------
//gauge01=RFN_CarrierGauge64!Aircraft_Carrier_Indicator, 0, 0, 300, 310 <---use // to block new radio
gauge02=RFN_CarrierGauge64!Radio_TACAN_ARN52B, 3, 311, 300, 100 <---Old radio
Hope this helps.

 

[fsafranek]

Tried to contact Mr. Parouty directly but no joy.

I'm in contact with Sylvain on a daily basis these days.
I'm sure when he has time to stop by here he will address this thread.

 

[fsafranek]

Actually, I had a bit of difficulty with the gauges myself at first. As stated above; make sure you use either the 32 bit or the 64 bit.

Since this is the P3Dv4 forum you should be using the 64-bit version file.

Here is one panel for the NG gauge.

//--------- RFN TACAN NG ---------------------------------------
[Window02] 
Background_color=0,0,0 
size_mm=300,421
pixel_size=300,421
window_pos=0.0, 0.550
visible=0
alpha_blend=0.85
sizeable=1
type=special
ident=11501

gauge00=RFN_CarrierGauge64!Close_Subpanel, 0, 2, 18, 18, c11501
gauge01=RFN_CarrierGauge64!Aircraft_Carrier_Indicator_NG, 0, 0,300, 310
gauge02=RFN_CarrierGauge64!Radio_Tacan_Panel, 0, 311, 300, 110

And for the Classic gauge.

//--------- RFN TACAN ------------------------------------------
[Window02] 
Background_color=0,0,0 
size_mm=300,421
pixel_size=300,421
window_pos=0.0, 0.550
visible=0
alpha_blend=0.85
sizeable=1
type=special
ident=11501

gauge00=RFN_CarrierGauge64!Close_Subpanel, 0, 2, 18, 18, c11501
gauge01=RFN_CarrierGauge64!Aircraft_Carrier_Indicator, 0, 0, 300, 310
gauge02=RFN_CarrierGauge64!Radio_TACAN_ARN52B, 0, 311, 300, 100

Hope this helps.

 

[mpni]

Hi hardlucksam
Have a look on this page. You will find where to download all the carriers listed in the RFN_carrier.xml
http://royalefrenchnavy.restauravia.fr/RFN-Navires.htm
But you have a good idea : I will add a page on the [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif]RFN_CarrierGauge_V5_xx.pdf[/FONT]
Regards
Michel

 

[PinkBaron]

TACAN RFN Gauge

Thanks to all and a little bit of comparing, the gauge now works fine on both of my machines.
The reasons were
1.Window title was RFN TACAN should have been TACAN RFN
2.Missing lines in Vcockpit 01, I only copied line gauge81 to 83 but the first lines as in Vcokpit 02 were missing. So I copied the lines from 02 and adapted to 01.

Now first thing is, the old gauge works fine, will try with the NG gauge also. The mistakes are in the nitty gritty things.
Thanks to all.
Regards Hans