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ENGRAVITY CDU Installation Instructions for use with PMDG

Installation of the ENGRAVITY CDU to work with your PMDG Products is relatively simple for
most users to accomplish on their own.
What you need before you start
First, you will need the following items:

Your Engravity CDU, its power cable and USB cable.

The USB Driver CD that came with your CDU when it arrived from Engravity.

Your PMDG-Engravity Interface License

Your PMDG-Engravity Interface Installer

Either PMDG 747-400/400F or the PMDG 737-800/900.

Where do I get these items?
Obviously, the CDU, power chord and USB cable should have come in the box from Engravity! You
should also have received the USB driver CD in the same box. If you didnt, then download it from the
download section.
Unzip the contents of the downloaded les into a temporary folder and note the location of the
contents for step 2 below.
When your CDU arrived, you should have turned it over, looked at the license number on the
reverse side, then purchased your PMDG-Engravity Interface License. The license is named
PMDG_EngCDU.key and was emailed to you by PMDG.
You should have downloaded the PMDG-Engravity interface installer from PMDG after your
License purchase. The download link was contained in the conrmation that was sent to you at the
time of purchase.
Installing your CDU
Once you have all of these items, you are ready to procede with installation and setup.
Follow these steps in this order:
1
Install your PMDG 737-800/900 and/or PMDG 747-400/400F product.
2
Insert the Engravity disc containing the USB drivers into your CD drive. If you have
AUTORUN enabled, then the setup process will start automatically. If you do not have
AUTORUN enabled then simply click on the SETUP.EXE le that you see as in this image here:

In case you downloaded the drivers from this page instead, nd SETUP.EXE in the folder you unzipped the
contents
into and run that.
3
When you have installed the USB drivers, the plug the power cable to your CDU and plug the cable
into a power source. (The CDU will power up and power down after a self test.)
4
Plug the supplied USB cable into your machine, then into the base of your CDU. Your windowsXP
machine will identify that you have new hardware connected. At this point, you may be prompted by
windows to install drivers for the new device. Allow windows to conduct the search and it will iden
tify the correct drivers and continue with their installation. (Note: On some machines, Windows may
do this TWICE... Just let Windows search for the drivers automatically and when it is nished, you
will know!)
5
When Windows is satised with the new hardware setup, you should notice the following was added
to the DEVICE MANAGER window:

Note that you can nd this window by selecting START/CONTROL PANEL/SYSTEM- then
select the HARDWARE tab and click on DEVICE MANAGER. Next scroll down until you see:
PORTS(COM & LPT)

In your DEVICE MANAGER, notice that you now have an item listed as: Engravity CDU
COM Port Controller (COMX) where X is the COM port that your machine has selected for use
with the CDU. (REMEMBER THIS COM PORT NUMBER!) (You might also notice,
depending on whether youre using older CDU drivers, that the name of the driver is CP20x USB
to UART Bridge Controller - thats the same type of driver).
Next, save the attached PMDG_Eng_CDU.key le that was provided to you by PMDG into
the folder /FS9/PMDG. This is the key that will authorize your CDU to communicate with
PMDGs airliner simulation software.

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Now run the installer you downloaded from PMDG at the time you purchased your license
key. The le name is PMDG_Engravity_Interface.exe.
Next, run FS9! Select the PMDG 747-400/400F or 737-800/900 and enter the simulator.
Pull down the PMDG menu located along the top of your FS menu bar- and select the
ENGRAVITY CDU... item from the PMDG Menu. IMPORTANT!!! Make sure that you are
NOT running in Full Screen mode for this, or the following dialog box will popup and disappear
behind the Flight Simulator full screen. Instead, you should be running FS9 in Window Mode to switch back and forth, hit Alt-Enter.
Once youre in Windows Mode and select the Engravity CDU... menu item, you will then see a
menu below that should look like this:

Select 38400 as your desired baud rate, and select the COM port that we reviewed in item #6 above.
Press CONNECT!

Your Engravity CDU should come alive, displaying the same screen as youd see on the CDU within the
simulator. Your Engravity CDU is now fully functional and will control the FMS within the simulation!
Connection Problems
The most common problem we see during installation is that users receive a message from within MSFS
stating Could Not Open Port. Yet you have looked and you know the port numbers match up!
This is generally an indication that you have another piece of software attempting to use the same COM
port. This is most often caused by infrequently used BlueTooth applications such as HotSynchs for PDAs
etc. Try turning that software off and see if that doesnt solve the problem for you!
CDU Driver Installation Problems
If you receive an error about slabunin.exe not being copied properly, make sure that you have uninstalled
any previously installed CDU Drivers, as they conict with the installation process. For further
instructions, let us know by emailing our support team.