Lawrence Donnelly Posted July 20, 2020 at 11:17 AM Posted July 20, 2020 at 11:17 AM Hi all, I know, it’s probably a controllers worst nightmare, but I’ve been increasingly interested in flying the xplane 11 SR71 on vatsim (normal speeds over land and in range of other traffic). I’ve solved the navigation issue, however the aircraft is not equipped with a transponder so far as I can tell and no plugins/Lula scripts I’ve tried have been successful. Im using XP11.40 with xSquawkBox on MacOS. If anyone can point me in the direction of a known working way of using a transponder on vatsim in such an aircraft, I would be grateful. Cheers Lawrence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Hannant Posted July 20, 2020 at 12:41 PM Posted July 20, 2020 at 12:41 PM (edited) Fraser has replied here: https://community.vatsim.uk/topic/37098-sr-71-transponder-on-vatsim/ Simply put, if it doesn't have one in the cockpit (or it's not modelled to work), then type: .x 1234 (including the preceding period - numbers as given) ...to set the squawk code given by ATC. xSquawkBox should also have a Mode C button on it Edited July 20, 2020 at 12:43 PM by Trevor Hannant 1 Trevor Hannant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence Donnelly Posted July 21, 2020 at 03:03 PM Author Posted July 21, 2020 at 03:03 PM Ok, thanks. From what I've seen XSB doesn't have the capability to turn the transponder on, but I should be able to find a keyboard command for it in X-Plane's settings. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Fuchs Posted July 21, 2020 at 03:14 PM Posted July 21, 2020 at 03:14 PM Maybe there's a way to create a FlyWithLUA script to operate your transponder? Otherwise there's also swift pilot client that has an integrated transponder in its GUI. Cheers, Andreas Member of VATSIM GermanyMy real flying on InstagramMy Twitch streams of VATSIM flights and ATC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence Donnelly Posted July 23, 2020 at 10:23 AM Author Posted July 23, 2020 at 10:23 AM On 7/21/2020 at 4:14 PM, Andreas Fuchs said: Maybe there's a way to create a FlyWithLUA script to operate your transponder? Otherwise there's also swift pilot client that has an integrated transponder in its GUI. Thanks. Will give swift a go, been recommended to me on other forums also. I'm not much of a coder, so not sure I'd be able to get stuck into making lua scripts... but thanks for the suggestion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence Donnelly Posted July 23, 2020 at 11:34 AM Author Posted July 23, 2020 at 11:34 AM UPDATE: For those interested, thanks to the collective efforts of the people on this thread and other forums, several solutions have been found. As mentioned above, the swift pilot client allows you to input the squawk code. For Windows users, X-Pilot and V-Pilot also have this capability. X-Plane's data refs can be accessed and manipulated directly using the plugin below I found a plugin called 'Command Line' that allows you to input your squawk code. This, when used in conjunction with a lua script called "Pilot Edge Helper" (works for vatsim also), allows you to input a squawk code and then cycle the transponder through its modes, with a visual indication. The Command Line plugin is however bug - ridden in some places, most notably where you can no longer change the last two digits of the com radios through the radio stack and it doesn't quite leave one radio frequency when calling another. X-Plane 11 also has keyboard bindings for the transponder mode. Thank you all for your help and suggestions. Lawrence https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/30859-universal-autopilot/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Mamuzich Posted July 28, 2020 at 08:58 PM Posted July 28, 2020 at 08:58 PM Came here to share exactly that, I found Pilotedge helper a while back when having a similar issue in another jet. Works pretty flawlessly on my end. When tuning frequencies I sometimes just use the command in xpilot and havent had any bugs that way. https://github.com/tarakanbg/pilotedge_helper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts