FSiPanel forums

I am a long time user on FSiPanel from P3D, and have today just upgraded to the advanced edition for MSFS 2020. I wanted to set up an approach and introduce a failure, so watched all of your three recent videos JP. I set the approaches up initially at EGGW and subsequently at EGKK. The failure was a fire in No2 engine, triggered by time initially, and then on further attempts by flaps 10.

The PMDG 737-700 is moved to its location - but then just oscillates up and down - trying to achieve the set altitude - and it does not do so. I set a Clean config, yet the flaps are at 5 and the gear down. When in this oscillating mode, I get the message telling me the plane is ready for my control, which clearly it is not.

So am I doing something wrong - or is more work needed to make this work as intended?

Just had another attempt - having rebooted my PC and restarted both MSFS2020 and FDSiPanel2020. Again I selected a clean profile - flaps were at 5 when the plane was moved to its location and although the gear lever is up, both red and green gear lights are displayed, and when I looked externally - the gear is down. Despite not achieving the altitude of 2,500 ft, I was once again told the control of the plane was mine. So I took control to adjust the altitude manually, and the whole scenario froze, which is also happened on one of the previous attempts.

Hi,

Thanks for your message, could you please send me the file config.xml found in FSiPanel directory to support@fsipanel.com

Cheers,

J-P

It looks like the PMDG SDK is not enabled, therefore FSiPanel is unable to interfere with any cockpit switch.
I will come back to you after receiving your file.

J-P

JP

I noticed that although my flap lever was moving, the actual flaps or the flap indicator were not, and also my rudder was not working.

So, I went to ground maintenance and refilled the hydraulic fluids (and everything else as well as it was all free!!!) - and bingo - the next two flights have worked as I would have expected, as did the flaps and rudder.

Not sure what had caused the loss of hydraulic fluid - it was not a selected failure - if indeed that is an option (not in FSiPanel right now)

So all appears to be working well now

Happy Flying

Thanks for the feedback!
Safe flight

J-P

J-P,

Just a suggestion, the hydraulic fluid problem described above seems to often arise when starting or restarting the same PMDG 737-700 airframe in flight or a ready position -- even cold and dark if it's just been used in a ready-state flight. You might want to have FSI Panel check for sufficient hydraulic fluid when loading a scenario.

Thanks, I will look at an option to reset failures and levels before next flight.
Cheers,

J-P