Focus on your taxi and let this widget perform the before takeoff/after landing actions. Auto Landing Lights will help you never forget to turn them on/off. Additional quality of life widgets for select aircrafts, especially the PMDG 737. And much more!
There are currently only two stages because they are some of the busiest stages of flight, and may be distracting. Other stages like Before Taxi can be easily performed without this widget.
More actions and aircrafts will be added if there is a sufficient number of requests or I run into a task that may benefit from automation.
Currently supported stages
PMDG 737, AAU2 (747 & 787)
- Before Takeoff
- A/T Armed
- Fuel Flow Reset
- Seatbelt & No Smoking Signs On (Optional - default off) (NOTAM: 747 and 787 animations are INOP)
- Position Stobe & Steady
- Taxi Lights Off (Optional)
- Wing Lights On (if option is checked, or is dark outside)
- Logo/Wing Lights On (if dark outside)
- Landing Lights On
- Runway Turnoff Lights On
- Transponder TA/RA
- Packs Off (Optional - default off)
- Start Timer
- After Landing
- Retract Flaps & Speedbrake(Optional - default off)
- Transponder Off
- Position Steady
- Landing Lights Off
- Runway Turnoff Lights Off
- Taxi Lights On
- APU On
- Probe Heat Off
- Engine Start Switches Off/Auto
- Auto Brake Off
- Stop Timer
FBW Family (including Headwind and LVFR variants), Fenix A320, iniBuilds A20N (V2), A306, A310 (similar with ignition switch)
- Before Takeoff
- Seatbelt & No Smoking Signs On (Optional - default off)
- TCAS TA/RA
- Weather Radar On
- Landing Lights On
- Nose Light TO
- Wing Lights On (if option is checked, or is dark outside)
- Logo/Wing Lights On (if dark outside)
- Runway Turnoff Lights On
- Packs Off (Optional - default off)
- Start Timer
- After Landing
- Retract Flaps & Spoilers (Optional - default off)
- Landing Lights Off
- Nose Light Taxi
- Runway Turnoff Lights Off
- APU Master On
- APU Start On
- Weather Radar Off
- TCAS STBY
- Stop Timer
ATR 42/72 (Some functions such as TCAS cannot be accessed as they are operated from the touchscreens. Also, elapsed timer seems to be INOP.)
- Before Takeoff
- Seatbelt & No Devices Signs On (Optional - default off)
- Gust Lock Release
- WX Radar
- Wing Lights Check
- Taxi & TO Lights Check
- Landing Lights On
- Logo Lights On (if dark outside)
- Strobe On
- Auto Engage Yaw Damper after Takeoff (Optional - default off)
- After Landing
- Start Timer (Optional - default on)
- Retract Flaps (Optional - default off)
- Gust Lock Engaged
- WX Radar STBY
- Landing Lights Off
- Taxi & TO Lights On
- Strobe Off
- Probe Heats Off
Additional Utilities (for select aircrafts)
- Heading Sync (737, 747, 787) - sync the MCP heading bug to the current heading, or when used with the OTTO search bar, set it to any value on the fly.
- Set MCP Course (737) - sync the right MCP CRS selector to the left, or when used with the OTTO search bar, set both to any value on the fly.
- Set IAS (737) - set the Indicated Air Speed through OTTO. Add INTV to the end, such as "SPD INTV" or "SPD 200 INTV" to press the SPD INTV button before dialing the numbers.
- Set Altitude (737, ATR) - set the target altitude through OTTO, use ALT xxx for altitude and FL xxx for flight level. Add INTV to the end, such as "ALT INTV", "ALT 6000 INTV", or "FL 200 INTV" to press the ALT INTV button after dialing the numbers.
- Set Minimums (737, ATR) - NOT PRECISE. Set the minimums through OTTO, use BARO xxx for barometric minimums and RADIO xxx for radio altimeter minimums.
- Toggle Chocks (737) - Use the right CDU to toggle chocks.
Auto Landing Lights
Automatically turn the landing lights and other lights off/on when passing through a certain altitude. You must ARM it by pressing the widget, and it will turn orange. Then, while the airplane crosses the specified altitude, the actions will be triggered accordingly.
- Executing the Before Takeoff widget will arm this automatically. Don't forget to arm it again before descending.
- NOTE: the altitude reported by MSFS might be different from the one shown on the PFD, so giving some margin is recommended.
Additional Configuration
You can change the delay between button actions by long clicking the widget (view in screenshots). The unit is in milliseconds. However, setting the delay too low might result in some buttons not working because of animation delay.
Requested Features
Requested features will be displayed in the Roadmap section. Feel free to request more features through comments.
Installation
Unzip and open the folder.
Place the folders named `p42-util-flow-Cana Vista-***` inside your community folder.
You must have Flow Pro installed. After updating, please remove and readd all the buttons.
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By Algkalv (talk) - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9925021
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6 months ago
e190attcs
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12 months ago
edpatino
Interesting widget. I wonder if it'll still work as there is a message on the Flow Pro icon on the top right of the screen saying that since it has not been updated after the most recent MSFS update of a week and a half ago (more than 10 days!), Flow Pro will probably not work as expected. Looks like the Flow pro guys are not too worried about updating. Moreover, they even suggested to purchase some STRIPR (if I remember well) to avoid updating MSFS, LOL
jyoonPro author
Flow does seem to work even with the warning (they said on Discord that they haven't had the time to update it because they were at the Expo). Stripr, hell naw I'm paying money for that lol.
1 years ago
rdpm
Hi. I cannot find the widget in FlowPro.
jyoonPro author
Sorry, I found the issue and fixed it. Thanks for reporting.
1 years ago
OlleBonk
Nice one. Can you please ad the version number in the manifest file
jyoonPro author
Thanks! I'll try adding in them manually since the default exporter doesn't support version numbers.
1 years ago
Luki
Hi Can you add options (Airbuses) to keep runway turnoff lights on after landing and turn on and off strobe lights?
jyoonPro author
Sure I can add that. You're talking about strobe light being turned off after landing, right?
1 years ago
pilotgear123
hi, could you add for minimums ? the knob is really slow, its so hard when take off and landing at high altitude airport. Thanks
jyoonPro author
Hi, I've wanted to add this functionality too. However, since PMDG doesn't expose the values of the currently set minimums, I can't make it the same as the other ones. It would have to be either "minimums (old value) (new value)" where you type both in manually, or "minimums +100" where it would increment or decrement by the specified value. This could also be imprecise since I can't verify that I have landed in the correct spot. Or maybe I could just add a scroll accelerator. Sorry, but I'll have to think more before implementing this feature.I've added an update. Note that this may not be that precise as I cannot validate the final value.
1 years ago
e190attcs
Awesome work here... fyi most air carriers also turn on the wing light for take-off and landing (below 10,000).
jyoonPro author
Thanks! Is this an airbus thing? I’ve not heard of using this in the 737.
1 years ago