This usually only happens if you diddle around too long on the ground and forget to power up the APU or Ground Power. This will light up red if the INS unit has shutdown whilst operating on battery. Clicking on this allows you to “cheat” through the warm up period, instantly aligning the CIVA.īAT INS. READY NAV light, this will light up green when the unit is aligned and ready for use. A form of emergency mode used when NAV data has become unreliable or if the INS computer fails. It’s important to put the unit into NAV before taxi, otherwise everything will be in vain!ĪTT – Attitude Mode. This is only used when the aircraft is parked, not moving, and ready for alignment. STBY – Standby Mode, you can configure the unit in this mode, putting in waypoints and the current position.ĪLIGN – Align Mode. OFF – The unit is not operational, the good news is is that it doesn’t drain battery! Mode Selector Knob(MSK) with the following options: This is commonly mounted on the overhead panel, but in the FJS aircraft you can find it on the pedestal together with the rest of the CIVA unit. The upper panel, which is the rectangular area above the display windows, is called the Mode Selector Unit ( MSU) panel. The FJS version consists of two parts rolled into one. Let’s go over the functions of the CIVA unit. Make sure the Parking Brake is on, Ground Ops people are a bit wary of pilots not putting on brakes, and as it turns out, refuse to leave the break room coffee machine if you don’t. You can start with the unit warmed up if you like, simply select the Engines Running option in the “OP” window.Ĭonnect the Ground Power by putting a blue check mark in the box in front of the “Connect Ground Power” sentence. Both the aircraft and the INS unit are fully shut down. For the sake of this tutorial I will go through a Cold and Dark scenario. The FJS aircraft have a blue button in the bottom left with “INS” on it, if you click that it will show you the above image. The CIVA can be installed in any aircraft, but the FJS 737 and 727 both have an option to display a functional 3D version in the Virtual Cockpit. Part 2 – familiarizationįor this I will be using the FlyJSim(FJS) 737-200 for X-plane 10/11, with the 3D CIVA INS Addon. The CIVA can be found on a lot of aircraft from the 60s onward, almost all Boeing aircraft from that era, the DC-8, the C-5 and possibly the most famous one, the Concord. This method eliminated a lot of potential human error and workload out of navigating. The INS solved this problem by allowing pilots to punch in a bunch of numbers to let the computer handle the rest. There’s more reading material for the technically inclined among us that wish to know more, but it’s not important for this article.īefore INS units, when people crossed the Atlantic in an aircraft, they had to plot their course/position in much the same way as ships have been doing for centuries, with a sextant.
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It does this by a series of gyroscopes that are on a rotating platform, which is also where the Carousel part of its full name comes from: “Delco Carousel IV-A”. INS stands for Inertial Navigation System, this is a system that tracks every tiny bit of movement from the aircraft, and by adding up all of these small bits of movement it can figure out where the aircraft currently is. Welcome to the CIVA INS navigation tutorial! Today we shall explore the joys of using a INS unit to find our way around the virtual world.
It was so good as reference material for civil aviation navigation so we’ve added it as an article. Mudspike Contributor Casper ‘TheAlmightySnark’ de Wit first added this excellent CIVA INS Navigation Guide for X-Plane in our forums.
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