GAS Super Stearman IB75A Pre-release Sale

Twice43 said:
Ignoring the sacrilegious aspect for the moment - due to eyesight issues, long flights with AP assistance tend to be my preferred approach.
I have a simple keyboard AP set up for aircraft that don't load with an AP, [Toggle the "Z" key to set AP On & Off, CTRL A gives Altitude Hold & CTRL H gives Heading Hold.
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Confirmed that I can't get it to engage with the keyboard or the PMS750 autopilot. I tried setting flight_director_available to 1 and still no dice.

Would be nice to have it for simulation reasons, even if it's not 100% accurate.

At least it trims nicely for straight-and-level flight. :)
 
hi all i am jason here is some of the shots i did with the 450 stearman
 

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there a nother 450

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Ideal plane for the "Arrows Across America" add-on. Just took it for a jaunt to Medicine Bow, an airmail field that is hopefully being restored....medicine bow.png
 
DennyA said:
Confirmed that I can't get it to engage with the keyboard or the PMS750 autopilot. I tried setting flight_director_available to 1 and still no dice.
Would be nice to have it for simulation reasons, even if it's not 100% accurate.
At least it trims nicely for straight-and-level flight. :)
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At the start of each project, I usually take a set of files CFG and FLT consistent with each other and then adapt them to my needs.
In this set of files, it happens that the main commands of the auto-pilot are defined. For the Super Stearman, I did not pay attention knowing that the plane did not have this kind of instrument and then I forgot to delete the lines.

Anyway, until this morning, I had never programmed an auto-pilot, I’m talking about the one that is native with FSX then MSFS.
Searching a little I found some explanations in a post on flightsim.com.
Finally in my files I had almost everything that was necessary to make it work.

In fact, the basic auto-pilot which at the release of MSFS was quite bugged, has been fixed (I believe) and to me it seems to be functional.
It relies on instructions that are in the FLT (they were there in my basic set of files) and in the file system.cfg: heading [AUTO-PILOT] ... but it lacked an instruction in the electrical part to make it work.

What had to be done is to add an electric line that feeds the PA, using the princpal electrical circuit and giving very low consumption values so as not to discharge the battery.

HOWTO:
- Open the systeme.cfg file in a Notepad,
- Find the heading [RADIOS]
- Just above this heading add the two following lines (just copy/paste them in the right place in systeme.cfg) :
; CIRCUIT(31) are provided for AP
circuit.31 = Type:CIRCUIT_AUTOPILOT #Connections:bus.1 #Power:0.0010, 0.0012, 11.5 #Name:Autopilot ; Autopilot 15W
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- Save the file and test in FS20.

I have tested this afternoon, it seem to work for me. Twice43 and DennyA, can you confirm this ?
If it is OK for you (it is very simple to do :cool:) iI will include this modification in the next release :santahat:

PS: For the list of basic commands in MSFS, find the Autopilot section in the documentation.
 
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lagaffe said:
At the start of each project, I usually take a set of files CFG and FLT consistent with each other and then adapt them to my needs.
In this set of files, it happens that the main commands of the auto-pilot are defined. For the Super Stearman, I did not pay attention knowing that the plane did not have this kind of instrument and then I forgot to delete the lines.

Anyway, until this morning, I had never programmed an auto-pilot, I’m talking about the one that is native with FSX then MSFS.
Searching a little I found some explanations in a post on flightsim.com.
Finally in my files I had almost everything that was necessary to make it work.

In fact, the basic auto-pilot which at the release of MSFS was quite bugged, has been fixed (I believe) and to me it seems to be functional.
It relies on instructions that are in the FLT (they were there in my basic set of files) and in the file system.cfg: heading [AUTO-PILOT] ... but it lacked an instruction in the electrical part to make it work.

What had to be done is to add an electric line that feeds the PA, using the princpal electrical circuit and giving very low consumption values so as not to discharge the battery.

HOWTO:
- Open the systeme.cfg file in a Notepad,
- Find the heading [RADIOS]
- Just above this heading add the two following lines (just copy/paste them in the right place in systeme.cfg) :

- Save the file and test in FS20.

I have tested this afternoon, it seem to work for me. Twice43 and DennyA, can you confirm this ?
If it is OK for you (it is very simple to do :cool:) iI will include this modification in the next release :santahat:

PS: For the list of basic commands in MSFS, find the Autopilot section in the documentation.
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Marvelous!
Thank you for looking at that. Will test it & let you know.
I had an inkling it might of been electrical circuit coding missing as I noted that code in one of the other 3rd party aircraft I was checking for Autopilot entries in the .CFG files.
T43
 
When the sale ends 12/16, and before the project goes to the commercial vendors and ultimately the Marketplace, all questions, concerns, and observations as relates to performance in MSFS 2020 will be considered and the model updated. All of you will receive notification of the update via the email you provided when you purchased the aircraft. It may take a few days for all to receive notification as there are limits as to how many downloads I can send on a daily basis. In any event I will post an alert on this forum when that process is about occur. Thanks for all the great input and compliments. We have a great team @ GAS
 
I did the cut & paste into System.CFG & can confirm that the keyboard AP works, in MSFS 2024
[I'm not flying MSFS 2020 much these days]
Interestingly, the 1st time I invoked the AP via the keyboard, CTRL H held the heading straight away, but CTRL Altitude had the aircraft slowly descending about 500' before the rate of descent diminished & then neutralized itself.
Thereafter I turned the AP On & Off, [via the Z key], a few times, to check that the Altitude Hold in fact was not just good trimming, & it did descend when the AP was off, then straighten out when I hit Z, & then CTRL A.
So, thank you for that.
For some reason I lost sound & the GPS unit on that flight so I need to see what has happened there, as they were both active yesterday.
T43
 
Good evening dear friends,
You can already find the repaint of the Boeing Stearman iB75a "Afterburner" in the FS2020 civil propeller download section of SOH.
My regards!
 
jason radz said:
what did they fix on the stearman do i need an up dated verision of it
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The only changes this week was a revision of the Big Red texture fixing a mirroring issue of the registration number on the right side of the fuselage and adjusted the 3D model’s Nav light bases. None of those issues affect performance. The autopilot concern was kindly addressed by LaGaffe to assist accessibility per a request.
 
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Hello dear friends,
I am sorry for having made a mistake when depositing the zipped archive of my repaint.
I have modified my post in the downloads which now offers you the download of the repaint.
I apologize for the mistake made yesterday evening.
Regards
 
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