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Com1 radio not tuning


Brandon Duncan
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Brandon Duncan
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This is a first for me. Before I forget I always run vPilot as admin, and in this instance I shutdown vPilot and re-started it but neither helped. So a VATSIM supervisor told me to post the problem here as he helped me as much as he could:

 

First of all I tried some ".com1 122.800" commands the supervisor told me to try but that did not help.

 

I dialed the appropriate freq into the captain's side Comm 1 radio but it would not change the Com 1 freq in vPilot. However when I changed the freq on the co-pilot's com radio, vPilot's Com 2 freq did change, but I could not use it because Com 2's Tx and Rx were grayed out.

 

If someone needs screenshots, I have 2 of them.

 

Help would be appreciated.

 

Brandon

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Robert Shearman Jr
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Which sim, and which aircraft?

 

Were the radios powered? Was the mic button engaged? (Applicable to at least the PMDG 747.)

Cheers,
-R.

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Brandon Duncan
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FSX SP2 in the PMDG 777-200F.

 

Radios were turned on.

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Robert Shearman Jr
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I don't know about the 777, but in the PMDG 747 at least, if the captain's mic switch isn't engaged, it will simulate a radio that can't transmit by way of setting COM1 to a fake frequency (136.975 or something?) and locking out any changes made via either the simulated tuning dial or via the dot-command in vPilot. Not sure if that is true also for the 777 but it's the closest thing I can think of to the described symptom.

Cheers,
-R.

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Brandon Duncan
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Thank you for the reply. The captain's mic was hot.

 

Both captain and co-pilot radios were set the usual way when you set the 777's status to long turn around after you first initialize the 777.

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