00:00Hello and thank you for tuning in to Pilot Survey Tech Tuesday video.
00:04In this episode, we're going to address an issue that was encountered by the last leg of the flight from
00:10Gulfport, Mississippi to Lakeland, Florida, Central Florida.
00:17The flight was delayed because of an issue with the multifunction display.
00:23And it did cause a significant delay that affected the flight.
00:29So what I'm going to do on this one here is address the issues and that hopefully finally fixed it,
00:36resolved it.
00:37It involves the USB connections the way I had them set up.
00:43My name is Chris. Let's get started.
00:53Okay, so we're going to pick up where we left off here at the Gulfport flight.
01:03And this will have been the first stage of the first segment of the flight, the start-up taxi and
01:10run-up.
01:11But as you'll see, we ran into some problems.
01:14So I'm going to go ahead and just let that play.
01:23And you'll see how it unfolded.
01:25And once this is done, then we'll go from there and I'll show you what I did to resolve the
01:32issue.
01:39Okay, so here's what's happening.
01:42This has stopped again.
01:46So I know...
01:47Don't let me go flight plan again.
01:50All right, so I just lost it where...
01:56So there's something quirky going on with this display.
02:03So, fortunately we have a chart.
02:05We're not going to be able to depend on this.
02:08Except the flight plan is in the system.
02:15This is going to be a tricky one.
02:17I just went around a full loop.
02:19Because I can't activate the flight plan.
02:24And let's see if I can do it from here.
02:27Flight plan.
02:30Okay, I think I can.
02:33Because this is hung up.
02:35This is clearly hung up.
02:37Oh, there you go.
02:38Flight plan.
02:39Yeah, I'll do it this way.
02:41And then I'll check out that later.
02:45So, when we're ready to activate the flight plan, I'll just go here.
02:50So, this is in-up.
02:53This is not going to show us anything.
02:55The multi-function display on my panel.
03:01It is functioning.
03:02Because it is responding to the buttons.
03:05And that is great.
03:08Speaking of, I'm going to go ahead and put the altitude that we're going to cruise at.
03:135,500 feet.
03:16At this point there, it was just, I launched the flight in a way.
03:21But then I went back and fixed the issue.
03:24And I think it's a primitive fix.
03:27So, initially, I had one of the multi-function display plugged into the front port.
03:38One of the USB ports on the front of the computer.
03:42It ended up there because of the issues I was having with the USB hub.
03:51And over a period of time, I was playing kind of whack-a-mole, so to speak, with the hubs
04:00and the adapters.
04:02So, as you see, the adapter, it actually has a port for two HDMI ends and one USB out.
04:14And that initially was plugged into the front of the computer, the flight sim computer.
04:22And the two, I ended up separating the two HDMI ends and two separate adapters.
04:31And I switched backwards and forth from the hub to hub.
04:40I'm thinking, okay, it's the hub that's going to make the difference.
04:44So, I have, as you may recall from some other videos, if you saw them, I have two hubs.
04:52I have one is USB hub one and the other USB hub two, both the 10-port hubs.
05:00And I've had them for some years and they've served me well.
05:04But I think the issue is I had so many things plugged into them, drawing so much power that it
05:09was intermittent.
05:10And that may have accounted for some of the issues I was having with the USB connections.
05:18So, what I did is I actually removed the connections from the front of the hub.
05:28I think I had one at that point.
05:30I had one plugged into the power USB.
05:34And I had the other one plugged into the front of the PC.
05:39And in the end, I actually plugged both of them into the rear of the USB 3-port and the
05:50rear of the PC.
05:53After I did that, I ran an extensive check there.
05:56I didn't go fly a long flight, but I started it up and I let it sit there.
06:01And I actually let the plane burn through like just sitting on the ground with it running.
06:07Because that's when it happened, as you may have seen on some of my videos, while I'm taxiing out.
06:12So, I ran it more than what it would have been, just flying a short flight.
06:19So, I did that two days in a row.
06:22And not constant, but, you know, I tested one day, shut it down.
06:26And a couple times, you know, I spent over a two-day period shutting down, bringing it back up.
06:33And I was not able to duplicate the issue anymore.
06:35So, I think that's actually what resolved it when I plugged the USB adapters into the back of the PC.
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07:10My name is Chris.
07:12Thank you for tuning in.
07:13Bye now.
