How to select UHF presets?
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Thanks for your answer, but i dont quite get your method.
Using UFC, in standard DED display, i can use ICP DCS Dn/Up to move arrows between UHF, VHF and STPT.
But do i need to press when on UHF? Tried ICP prev, -next, -sqe, -enter, nothing changes.But i figured out a way:
Press COM1 (UHF), then the DED entry is highlighted on PRE, then directly enter preset-number eg. “2” + enter.
The unfortunate thing is that normal DED now shows UHF 2, instead of the frequency.
So in order to check if it’s the right frquency, one must push COM1 once again to read the frequency noted there.
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oh, Planehaza beat me to it. Thanks.
No luck with the rocker switch though. -
You just use the DCS switch to get the selector arrows (I forget the name) around the preset (same as you would a STPT) and use the rocker switch to cycle through them.
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The increment-decrement rocker moves whatever the up-down arrows are beside. E.g. on the DED default display they can be on the UHF channel, VHF channel, or steerpoint number. The DCS or “dobber” which is the 4-way ICP control stick that does up-down-sequence-return will cycle where the arrows are on that page by up-down inputs.
You can press the COM1 or COM2 override buttons to change channels but you don’t have to and it would be slower. In fact I don’t think you can cycle channels on the COM1 or COM2 pages, only type in freq or channels and you can mess with the channel-frequency assignments.
One of my favorite features is that the COM1 or 2 page remembers your last channel so you can press COM1 then ENTER to swap between two channels rather quickly.
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Sorry to bump this with noob problem, but this has been bugging me for days. Scenario: Training 1 with taxi option to start. I click COM1. I use dobber to scroll to preset scratch area, then the rocker to set it to a number other than the current preset, I click ENTR, nothing changes, I click COM1 and the preset is at the same value it was when I started. I’ve tried variants of that sequence but always after clicking COM1, the preset hasn’t changed. There were a couple times where it did, but I honestly can’t remember how I did it.
Could someone have mercy and detail the precise sequence of clicks to change the preset. Coulda sworn I’m doing it as the guys suggested above. Or do I have a bug in my setup? I can scroll to the frequency scratchpad and change that, and it does stick, but that defeats the purpose of the presets, no?
This is 4.34 on Win 10. I’ve been practicing ramp start and just flying around with no noticeably repeatable problem beyond this one.
Very frustrating. Thx for any help.
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Same problem here, clicking COM1 then ICP “up arrow” then ENTR does not change the preset / return to the DED CNI page. As rkl122 stated, very frustrating as I would like to follow the training properly. I know the other ways to change the preset work, but this method doesn’t.
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It’s not supposed to. Arrowing through the presets is for changing their frequency assignments not for selecting the presets to use. Type in the channel number instead.
You can inc-dec the channels from the home DED screen. DCS up/down until the up-down arrow icon is next to the thing you want to change then use inc-dec switch to surf the presets.
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It’s not supposed to. Arrowing through the presets is for changing their frequency assignments not for selecting the presets to use. Type in the channel number instead.
You can inc-dec the channels from the home DED screen. DCS up/down until the up-down arrow icon is next to the thing you want to change then use inc-dec switch to surf the presets.
According to the BMS Training pdf : page 15 : “or use ICP “up arrow” then ENTR”, you can select the presets to use with the arrows. I know how to change the presets on the home DED screen, thanks anyways.
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The up and down arrow change the settings on the UFC page identified by the double arrow symbol.
By default, it’s on the steerpoint. top right on the below picturePilot can change that with the DCS up and down and the symbol will move from the steerpoint (top right) to the presets (VHF, UHF)
Once the symbol is on the UHF or VHF preset, then hitting the ICP up arrow will move the preset UP and hitting the ICP down arrow will move the preset down.
dobber up twice to place the double arrow symbol on the UHF preset
pressed up arrow twice to switch from preset 1 to 3The training manual page 15 explains the procedure when you actually enter the COM pages, NOT STRAIGHT from the UFC page - because of the default position of the double arrow symbol on UFC obviously:
Push COM1 on the ICP and the DED displays the UFC COM1 page.
You can either select PRE 2 or enter the ground frequency manually. To select preset #2, either hit “2” in the scratchpad then ENTR or use ICP “up arrow” then ENTR. To enter the manual frequency, enter “27352” in the scratchpad, followed by ENTR.
Note that the last 5 cannot be entered, it does not matter. Remember the Scratchpad is the area between asterisks.When you enter either COM pages from the ICP COM1 or COM2 button, that double arrow is by default on the preset number. So using the ICP up and down arrow will increment/decrement preset. In that case you do not have to use the DCS switch.
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@Red:
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The training manual page 15 explains the procedure when you actually enter the COM pages, NOT STRAIGHT from the UFC page - because of the default position of the double arrow symbol on UFC obviously:
When you enter either COM pages from the ICP COM1 or COM2 button, that double arrow is by default on the preset number. So using the ICP up and down arrow will increment/decrement preset. In that case you do not have to use the DCS switch.
Yes but when you click COM1 again, the new preset doesn’t “stick” was my point and Megatherion’s. I must’ve read that passage a dozen times. Counter intuitive to us (and apparently to you?). (It has also not been clear to me til now that you gotta “dobber” around a page to see what’s scrollable and what’s not - ie. the double arrows don’t appear next to a field until the dobber is on that field.) At any rate, thanks to Frederf and RedDog for the “UFC page” explanation (which I now realize is what Frederf was saying above as well), and to all for the responses.
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you’re right - it doesn’t stick and i didn’t realise !!
I’ll correct the training manual about that to make it efficient. Thanks for taking the time to explain it