G1000 lockups in the St Louis region

[fppilot]

I had a previous experiences nearing the St Louis area and attributed it to my fooling around in the flight plan and procedures screens of the MFD too much. But then yesterday I encountered a lockup at about the same area when flying the same route again. These two flights were from KBMG Bloomington, Indiana, to KCPS, St Louis Downtown. Then today I made multiple attempts to fly on from KCPS to KIOW Iowa City, Iowa. I experienced lockups during multiple attempts to fly out of KCPS.

For the first occurrence I was up and enroute near the STL VOR when I entered the MFD flight plan page and it locked on me. The following instances were G1000 lockups all sitting on the ground at KCPS. I tried loading a saved plan. If I entered the MFD flight plan page the G1000 locked. I quit MSFS, rebooted, started the sim, and entered a flight plan by hand in the MSFS World Map page, step by step. I then went to fly and while sitting on the runway I entered the MFD flight plan page. It locked. I restarted several other times, each with the same result. I was using the Diamond DA62, but also tried with attempts in the G58 Baron and in the Cessna 172. Each time the G1000 locked. I restarted the sim without the G1000 mod and had no issue with locking.

Then I loaded the flight from KBMG to KCPS that I flew yesterday. Entered the flight plan page while on the runway at KBMG. No problems. In and out of the flight plan page multiple times. No problem. Then I decided to try a flight from KIOW to KCPS. Everything went fine until I neared the St Louis area, then I noticed the G1000 had again locked. I was not even accessing the flight plan or procedures page when it happened. Was just nearing St Louis.

I am using the G1000 mod v0.3.4. I am using the Navigraph beta if that makes any difference. Is there some cause for what appears to be such a region related issue?

[kaosfere]

I'm giving another attempt at trying to reproduce some of the lockups folks are seeing. Do you have a sample of a flight plan out of St Louis that locks up when you view it?

[fppilot]

Hi Rob, Apologize for not getting back to you sooner. Been quite busy and its kept me away from flight sim activities for about 10 days. I will look back at the flights that were the basis of my post in regards the WT G1000 mod and the St Louis area. I will report that I have having the MFD lock up on me on most occasions, regardless where I am flying, when I go into its Flt Plan and/or Proc pages multiple times. Many times it occurs when I go into those pages to review the flight plan ahead, or to activate a flight plan or select a transition. In some cases I can finish the flight using the corresponding pages of the PFD, but it has a habit of locking up as well. Another note: I am using the Navigraph Beta for MSFS as the default MSFS nav database is horribly lacking for the mostly regional GA airports I routinely fly to. A good example is KUMP in Indianapolis. The MSFS default holds just one VOR approach. That airport actually has I believe 5 or 6 published approaches, including RNAV LPV approaches into each direction of the runway. Off the top of my head I might also call out KBKL, Burke Lakefront in Cleveland on that score.

I fly mostly GA twins, particularly the G58 Baron and the DA62. I fly a predefined fantasy flight schedule in real time and with real time weather to and from games of a couple of sports teams My flights average right at 2 hours. With my flight schedule and available time to fly to “tonight’s game”, I find myself flying instead in FSX SE where I continue to enjoy Reality XP avionics and updated and complete nav data. Just too many experiences of G1000 lockups late into those flights in MSFS. The only aircraft performance mod I use, and only occasionally, is the DA62X characteristics mod. The lockups occur regardless of whether the mod is in use or not. Lockups are as frequent with the Baron, and I have still had lockups when I fly the Cessna C72 G1000.

Oh, I am using the WT G1000 mod from I believe 12/23/2020.

Best regards, and a ton of thanks for your efforts with the G1000 and G3000.

Frank P

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[fppilot]

Rob! Big news today. Much deserved. Go forth and conquer! Have confidence!

Frank

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