After 6 years a new simputer was obtained - the old one was not able to give a smooth flying feeling. Since I don't plan to buy a new rig in the next years, I decided to get something more "high-end"ish. ASUS P5B Motherboard (front left) Intel Core2Duo E6600 2.4GHz CPU (front…
The IOCards are fully funtioning and controlling the lamps on the frontpanel! Sadly the pictures don't look as good as in reality The left panel shows important information (HSI and RWR) with FalconGauges: To finish the frontpanel, DED and the right MFD-monitor have to be installed.
At last something is working as I planned it! The left MFD in "operational" state: And from the "pilot's view":
Today I got my 2nd 6,5" TFT VGA Monitor for my MFDs! The package also included the missing inverter of the first one. I couldn't wait to test the whole thing. I connected everything as seen above, turned on the power - NOTHING :-( Just like so often, something didn't work ok…
The glareshield has been finished! Now I have a place to mount all the indexers, warning lights and the DED...
The indexer ligths, which give status info about Angle-Of-Attack and air refueling, are done. I got the housings from Dave Scott long time ago (thx, Dave!), and now I found the time to insert the leds:
The next panels are done: TWS PRIME, TWS AUX, GEAR, HUD, AIR COND, CMDS, SNSR PWR, ELEC, EPU, SIM1
Now, since the "hardware"-part of panelmaking is done, I could start with connecting the panels to the GammaRay-Inputcard. Both MFDs, the ICP and the MISC panel are working, and move the corresponding switches/buttons in Falcon:AF. Until the end of August, I plan to have all panels connected an working.
Except MANTRIM, all panels have been finished. The UHF has some minor glitches, nevertheless it doesn't look bad:
Except of 3 (UHF, MANTRIM, FLTCTRL), all panels have the lettering mounted: All the knobs which are not replicas of the original ones, have been painted gray. The black and white stripes are painted by hand, so it doesn't look very spectacular...
Years ago I got a couple of buttons from my cousin (thx, Alex!) I wanted to use inside the pit. One of them was perferct for the MasterCaution switch. I also got a transparency used for tinting car windows, so the lettering of the button will not be visible when not lit.…
The panel update is going on quite well. I managed to install most of the lettering on the lightplates...
The last days I managed to redo my panels (more…)
There’s an OpenSource-hardware system, mainly for controlling Microsoft Flightsimulator. (more…)
I try to preserve as much info from my old sites as possible.
So here are all the “news” I posted befor March, 2006.