HOW to Configure the Marker Beacon

The PSCockpit allows you to program your Marker Beacon in two different ways: using the data extracted from the sim or using the PSCockpit Marker Beacon.

The PSCockpit Marker Beacon has been designed to use it when there is no such information from the sim but some other data can be extracted. It can be use for general aviation providing 3 coloured lights and 3 tones.

After configuring 3 led outputs in the IOLayout of the PSCockpit Software, you have to set these Ids in the F16 Model page of the PSCockpit System:

Marker Beacon in BMS

The F-16 has only one light as Marker Beacon and blinks at a different frequency according to the marker you are overflying, but only outer (OM) and inner marker (IM) are implemented in BMS.

Unfortunately the state bit of this lamp can’t be extracted from the Flight Data to be used in our cockpits.
 

 PSCockpit Marker Beacon

In case your favourite sim doesn’t have implemented the marker beacon, you can use the PSCockpit Marker Beacon.

To do this, you have to enter the parameters of the marker beacon in the Marker Beacon option of the F16 Model page and select “Use PSCockpit Marker Beacon” checkbox.

You can define the range of each marker from the runaway in nautical miles and the deviation in degrees:

With the marker ranges and the course deviation, the PSCockpit Software will activate the marker beacon lights and the correspondent tone but only when the Tacan Mode is set to ILS/NAV.

To tell the PSCockpit Software that you are in ILS/NAV Tacan Mode goto Special I/Os of the F16 Model page and select the input that will be active under the label HSI ILS/NAV:

Regards,

Shep