BAe146 EHSI question

[geoffco]

Hi there,

I have developed (for my own use only, of course) a wide version of the BAe EFIS panel which has both the Captain's and First Officer's instruments visible. I currently have to use another developer's EHSI on the FO side because if I have two instances of the gauge HH.BAE!EHSI in the panel at the same time, the gauge will cause FS to crash!

Perhaps somebody here is from the developing team and familiar enough with the inner workings of the BAe panel and gauges that they can answer me these in-depth questions...

-> What is the reason for this crash, is there way to avoid it (like adding a fith parameter to the gauge line etc..)?

-> Is there a second version of the gauge inside the .gau file that I could use? (For example, there are two EADI versions (EADI and EADIU) but I know of only EHSI and EHSIZ which are mutually excluding each other - I've tried)

-> In theory, it should be possible to have a renamed copy of HH.BAE.gau (eg HH.BAE2.gau) and this way have independant EHSIs with EFIS controllers. However, this would need several other systems to also be active (but probably can be hidden)... which ones would be needed as a minimum for EHSI operation (with no flightplan shown).

Cheers,

Geoff

PS. If anyone is interested to see what I mean by a wide version of this panel, a screenshot can be seen here.

[Hans Hartmann]

Well, the whole thing was developed long ago so I doubt that the EHSI was meant to run in more than one instance at all - mostly because of performance issues at that time. Copying and renaming the gauge will not help you because the HH.BAe.gau file contains all gauges plus the whole system simulation. If you run this gauge twice chances are good that the second one will either not work at all or interfere with the first.

EHSI and EHSIZ are the normal and zoomed versions of this gauge. They mutually exclude each other so only one of them gets drawn at all times - again due to performance concerns.

Sorry that this won't help you very much.

[geoffco]

Well, the whole thing was developed long ago so I doubt that the EHSI was meant to run in more than one instance at all - mostly because of performance issues at that time. Copying and renaming the gauge will not help you because the HH.BAe.gau file contains all gauges plus the whole system simulation. If you run this gauge twice chances are good that the second one will either not work at all or interfere with the first.

EHSI and EHSIZ are the normal and zoomed versions of this gauge. They mutually exclude each other so only one of them gets drawn at all times - again due to performance concerns.

Sorry that this won't help you very much.

Hi Hans,

Thanks for the reply. Actually, in a way it is quite helpful because it confirms that I should give up trying to get a second instance of that gauge working and concentrate on flying the sim...

I do have one further question though, can you tell me if the wingtip effects (nav lights and strobes) are hard-coded or use attatchpoints for soecific effects? If specific effects, can you tell me which ones so that I can modify them - they are very dim when viewed closely...

Cheers,

Geoff

[Hans Hartmann]

Sorry, I have no idea. I never saw the actual source files for the BAe model.