F/A-18 Nav Radio broken

[Alleyviper7]

I've been having this problem for some time now and I didn't see any other threads discussing this problem I have with the F/A-18. Whenever I try and enter either a TACAN channel or a VHF frequency into the UFC, it displays the tacan channel one less than I inputted and always the Y and never X. If I try to hit the X button, the displayed channel drops by 1 and immediately returns to Y. I'm never able to correctly tune the navaid I want.

Example:  I try to enter Corpus Christi VORTAC. I hit the TCN button on the UFC then punch in 102 and hit enter. What happens is the entry field changes to 101 and the X switches to Y and never can switch back to X. If I try to enter the VHF frequency of 115.50, I get the same result. If I hit the X button, the display switches to 101Y. Hit it again and I see 100Y.

I switched to another aircraft to see what was going on with the VHF frequency and the NAV1 radio showed 115.49. This is exactly .01 off from what I entered. Does anyone else have this problem and is there any workaround to fixing it?

The only thing that I can do to make it work is change aircraft everytime I want to tune the Nav radio to a new frequency which is pretty rediculous. Without a fix, it's pretty much impossible to fly IFR with the hornet unless you want to input a GPS flight plan for every flight. Even doing that you aren't able to fly any instrument approaches. This really needs to be looked at.

EDIT: I just saw that this is the same problem that people are having in the "ils" thread.

[Alleyviper7]

Has anyone found a workaround other than having to switch aircraft mid-flight to correct this?

[Razgriz]

Use a Cessna 172 nav radio.

Go to FSX/SimObjects/Airplanes/FA-18/panel/panel.cfg

Window04=Radio Stack

[Window04]
BACKGROUND_COLOR=2,2,2
size_mm=156,308
position=8
visible=0
ident=RADIO_STACK_PANEL
zorder=3

gauge00=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio Audio,        0,  0,156,31
gauge01=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio Nav-Comm 1,   0, 29,156,59
gauge02=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio Nav-Comm 2,   0, 86,156,59
gauge03=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio ADF,          0,142,156,41
gauge04=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio DME,          0,180,156,41
gauge05=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio Xpndr,        0,217,156,49
gauge06=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio AP,           0,262,156,48
windowsize_ratio=1.000
window_pos=0.756,0.358
window_size=0.243,0.641


If you need help adding these, post here.

[Alleyviper7]

That did the trick, thanks!

[Razgriz]

Enjoy.   

[Intrepid]

That did the trick, thanks!

Worked for me to
Thanks Razgriz
Randy

[maximls]

Can someone please help me with this? I updated my panel.cfg file and I still have problems with my Nav radios (where when I dial in freq it is 1 digit under the one I tried to dial). Here is what my panel.cfg section looks like. Is there anything else I need to do?



//--------------------------------------------------------

Window04=Radio Stack

[Window04]
BACKGROUND_COLOR=2,2,2
size_mm=156,308
position=8
visible=0
ident=RADIO_STACK_PANEL
zorder=3

gauge00=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio Audio,        0,  0,156,31
gauge01=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio Nav-Comm 1,   0, 29,156,59
gauge02=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio Nav-Comm 2,   0, 86,156,59
gauge03=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio ADF,          0,142,156,41
gauge04=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio DME,          0,180,156,41
gauge05=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio Xpndr,        0,217,156,49
gauge06=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio AP,           0,262,156,48
windowsize_ratio=1.000
window_pos=0.756,0.358
window_size=0.243,0.641

//--------------------------------------------------------

[Razgriz]

Can someone please help me with this? I updated my panel.cfg file and I still have problems with my Nav radios (where when I dial in freq it is 1 digit under the one I tried to dial). Here is what my panel.cfg section looks like. Is there anything else I need to do?



//--------------------------------------------------------

Window04=Radio Stack

[Window04]
BACKGROUND_COLOR=2,2,2
size_mm=156,308
position=8
visible=0
ident=RADIO_STACK_PANEL
zorder=3

gauge00=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio Audio,        0,  0,156,31
gauge01=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio Nav-Comm 1,   0, 29,156,59
gauge02=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio Nav-Comm 2,   0, 86,156,59
gauge03=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio ADF,          0,142,156,41
gauge04=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio DME,          0,180,156,41
gauge05=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio Xpndr,        0,217,156,49
gauge06=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio AP,           0,262,156,48
windowsize_ratio=1.000
window_pos=0.756,0.358
window_size=0.243,0.641

//--------------------------------------------------------

Did you dial it with the F/A-18 instruments?  Hit Shift + 5 and open the radio stack and dial in the frequency from there.

[maximls]

When I hit Shift+5 (or any other except 1 and 2) it says that there are no panels mapped to that key. Can you PM me your panel.cfg?

[Razgriz]

In the windows section you must not of put it in right.  My F/A-18 is modified to be a tanker / squad leader so it has an ATC window.  I've attached a zip file.

[maximls]

Thank you very much. This helped.. now I can fly F/A-18 albeit with Cessna panel.