Avidyne config problem

This error has been previously reported on the forum, so let's hope that it is being looked into, and a fix may be forthcoming.

Hi Icepilot13,

Can you post your panel.cfg for us to look at?  You can open it with notepad, highlight and copy the text then paste it into this post.  I am curious if the gauge installer is placing the entire location into the gauge entry.

Open up the aircraft folder for the aircraft panel you are having difficulty with and open the panel folder within that aircraft's folder.  If you don't see a file called panel.cfg check for these settings:

Once you can see the panel.cfg file you need to open it with notepad, if you don't know how to do this here are visual instructions:

I have used the F1Tech Avidyne Student as an example since I don't have the FSAvidyne on my laptop right now so the naming structure is slightly different... don't use the example above as a naming convention for FSAvidyne, they are different.  Post what you have in your panel.cfg file specifically looking at the extension the F1 gauge installer put in for the FS Avidyne gauges.  You can just copy and paste your panel.cfg into this posting instead of trying to manage screenshots.

The developer used a non-standard naming convention for the folders which doesn't work well with the initialization files.  That would hold for FSAvidyne as well as some other guages/programs using initialization files.

You need to rename the folder the Seminole is in from: "Piper Seminole" to: "Piper_Seminole" and the panel folder you are wanting to place the gauges into from: "panel.16x9 IFR" to: "panel.16x9_IFR" and make sure the entries in the panel.cfg correlate exactly to the correct spelling.  The space between the names is the problem.  Using an underline to replace the space will fix it for you.

I was able to run it. I did it with some other plane though. It gives me that notice that I mentioned in the first message I posted here. Thus, I minimize FS9, click OK on the notice, go back to FS9, and for some reason, now it lets me continue. What I mean by that is - Before, when I picked the plane, then I got the notice, I had to click on it but nothing changed in FS9. It did not let me go back to FS9 "Create Flight" menu from "plane select".  Now, after I clicked on the notice, it actually proceeded in my plane choice and it put me back to "create flight" menu. Therefore, I could click FLY NOW and start loading the game. Then, I get the notice again. So I repeat the all process with minimizing FS9, clicking on the notice, and returning back to the game. And then, finally, I am on the ramp with Avidyne display. Any idea why this happens?

 Thanks

I had this problem too (reported elsewhere). I have now replaced the v1.1 gauge (f1_entegra.gau) with the v1.0 gauge, and all my Avidyne planes load up normally (obviously now as v1, so no new features).

I am convinced that v1.1 has a bug in the way it is parsing the path to the avidyne.ini file. I hope that the developers can at least try to confirm/acknowledge this error.

Yes, I saw that workaround - but the point is that I believe there is a bug yet nobody from Flight1 has actually confirmed it. For now I am staying with v1.0.

I had the same problem with configuring the FSAvidyne. The fsavidyne.ini file which was in the correct place couldn't be found when I installed the gauges in the Pilatus P-12.

The following work-around is for FSX (SP2) taking a clue from Dr. Zane Gard's learned (albeit incomplete) contribution:

Apparently the program can't find the location of the fsavidyne.ini file it created a few moments ago in the configuration process with the GaugeConfig utility because there are spaces (" ") in path and filenames. So I created a "spaceless" path for the .ini file for the Pilatus P-12 like this: "c:\programs\fsx_flightone_panels\f1_p-12" (seems any path will do as long as it is spaceless). Next I looked for the place where fsavidyne.ini actually is. That was C:\Programs\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Sim Objects\Airplanes\F1_Pilatus PC-12\panel (might be a bit different for you). I then opened panel.cfg (at the same place) with Editor. Towards the end I found 2 lines like "gauge00=f1_entegra!MFD, 0,0, 500,383,popup C:\Programs\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Sim Objects\Airplanes\F1_Pilatus PC-12\panel\fsavidyne.ini". I  replaced the path at both places with the path of the directory I created like this: gauge00=f1_entegra!MFD, 0,0, 500,383,popup C:\Programs\FSX_FlightOne_Panels\F1_P-12\fsavidyne.ini. Then I copied the fsavidyne.ini file into that place.

The new place of the .ini file will be remembered and future changes to the gauges will be saved to the new location.

This is doing the trick for me but I hope FlightOne will fix the bug.

Please give me feedback if this works for you, too. With some modification it should also work with FS9, but I didn't try that out.

Andreas 

You are the man buddy!!! You are the man! Thanks a lot! This version works with no problem! You dont even know how glad I am it is working. I have been so frustrated with this!

Thanks a lot again!

Good news.

Now....

Never assume we are not supporting you guys.

Jim

Point taken - I apologize for doubting you!