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Some of you asked to see more details of my progress. I just wired some of the EFIS Control and FCU buttons and lights. BTW notice the HOLDER on the back side photo of the EFIS Control, from FDS (Peter Cos), it's fantastic and a lifesaver. Don't mind the temporary black tape. I want to end up using a single plug for all buttons and LEDS, LED displays, and switches. I haven't figured out which plug to use, any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hi, Last month bought their Throttle Quad and now I would like to replace my plastic CH yoke. I was looking into the Jet style Yoke. My question to you owners (or wanna be's like me) is what do you think about the table top version compared to the floor standing. I fly a mix, including small singles and I don't know how the floor standing would "feel" If you own it, do you like it? It's about $150 difference in price so just wanted to get some input before I spend that much money.Thanks!!!Rob(posted in another fourm too)

Hi everybody,I just got an Lear Inc. MM1 Attitude Indicator ( former Navy BuAer)I want to open in order to see how I could equip it with RC servos.But it is sealed and there is no screw. Nothing indicating me how to open that beast. Is there anybody with maintenance knowledge???Thanks a lotregardsRoger

Hi all,this must be a stupid question to those wizzards out there, but it's really bothering me for so long:I have a rotary encoder (from Conrad, a German based company), and i want to use it for an elevator trim wheel. Tried the trim wheel on a USB-axis but that didn't do it for me, resolution is too small. Anyway, the encoder has three pins (as is usual i'm told) and when rotated left it gives pulses to the left-center pair of pins. But it also gives pulses (although offset) to the right-center pair ! And that way there is no way i can think of to get it to work as trim. It will always receive two pulses on either side when i switch it one full click and nothing happens…

I was over at my dad's job today, and came across this lever.It comes out of an air defense system called Roland. This particular lever comes out of the simulator, which isnt used anymore. the lever works great and im planing to use it for nose wheel steering in FS. I can use the button for the brakes. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to use the top potmeter (the tip of the stick rotates) for?

I installed a KE72 keyboard encoder on a MCP panel for use with 767PIC addon. after I loaded the cfg with the right combination of key presses for each switch I checked it in note pad to make sure they were saved correctly on the KE72 board. No problem every combo worked great! Now the problem when running FS2002 the switches don't operate. I went into PIC custom settings and check the assignments and all of the swithces were recognised, but after saving and returning to FS2002 I get sporatic recognition. If I press a button several times it might engage, if I flip a switch several times it might engage etc... Anyone else have this problem and what did you do to correct i…

Could anyone please answer the following .I use a suncomic joystick/throttle combo in win XP / FS2002. As this company is out of business, I have set the driver as a 4 axis with POV switch and all works ok.I have been looking at making rudder pedals and I want to make sure I understand how to connect them.According to what I read on the net, I would connect the pot (100K) between pin 9 and pin 11 on the DB15 plugIf I do this..1) will this work with any Joystick , specifically the suncomic combo I use?2) Do I have to do anything in the Joystick configuration to let the sim/or PC know that there are now rudder pedals connected or will it automatically see that because I hav…

I have spent a lot of time thinking about the design of a very versatile cockpit for my home. I want the flexibility of flying a Cessna 172 during my flight training and to be able to fly large jetliners for fun... all from one setup that can be modified easily to accomodate said changes. I propose the following setup:Computer 1:Windows XPFS2002 ProMatrox Parphelia (AGP) - Three 15" LCDRadeon 7500 (PCI) - 17" CRTComputer 2:Windows XPProject MagentaRadeon 8500 - 2 19" CRT'sSingle Engine Solution- (picture 2)Computer 1:FS2K2 with Outside view w/Matrox ParpheliaInstrument View undocked to 17" CRT on Radeon 7500Computer 2:Misc. Utility Programs for FS2K2FSFlightMaxFlightsoft …

Hi guys, I thought you might like to see the current state of my cockpit.I am using the TRC "Basic ATD" panel, Flight Link KR-1 avionics, throttle quadrant and sub-panel and two GoFlight panels.I have 2 PC's driving the simulator; the main one running a Asus P4PE motherboard with a 2.6Ghz P4 and a Matrox Parhelia card driving 3 15" LCD monitors mounter on an Ergotron stand. The secound PC is the little black box micro-PC you can just see the side of on the far right. This is running a 1.8Ghz P4 and is connected to the 10" CRT on the left which is on its side and running Pivot software to turn the screen into portrait mode which is better for driving the instruments.I …

Just wanted to share my latest pic of my A340Project. Slowly getting there.Matt O.www.a340project.us

Where can I find knobs and swithces just like the ones in a 767 to add to my project? thanks

Hello,I'm finishing my small cockpit. The original project was a boeing cockpit, but I don't have room for it right now, so in the lastest 30 days I got what I already bought (goflight, aerosoft, LCD, monitors, etc), designed a table for it and put everything to work :) Soon I'll have a web page showing in details my project, with photos/links for all the hardware and software.I keep you informed.http://cdsdigital.com.br/simulador/simulador2.jpghttp://cdsdigital.com.br/simulador/simulador1.jpg(the guy in the photo is a friend, not me :)Thanks,Ulisses

Hello,i sell some original B767 Handbooks (-> German Ebay). If you are interested please follow the links below: [link:cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=419&item=2152982912&rd=1|Boeing 767 QRH] [link:cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=419&item=2152986870&rd=1|Boeing 757 QRH] [link:cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=419&item=2153011013&rd=1|Boeing 767 AOM Vol. 2+3] [link:cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=419&item=2153018258&rd=1]Boeing 767 AOM Vol. 2Always happy landings !! Joerg

Can someone give me an indication if the 4 switches (plus the altimeter setting) on the real Airbus FCU are push/pull on/off or are they momentary push/pull. I have just designed and built the push-on pull-off type with a rotary encoder incorporated, which is fairly simple, but suspect that they maybe the second variety, momentary push-pull with the at rest position in the middle, as Magenta has them in the FCU.These also are not too hard to build, but would like to know how the real Airbus switches work before I continue. Cheers.............Brian

Hi GuysJust wrapping up on my 727 throttle design, But I need to make a decision on the pots I should use before I can finalize it.I want to have as smooth of control as possible, to be able to make precision adjustments, Im a toolmaker and mechanical designer by trade and the the mechanical end of the throttle is first class.Im curious to know if there is anything better to use then 100k pots(maybe 10-turn pots?)thx in advanceFloyd Stollewww.stollco.com

Hi All and a Happy New Year...I have an old 486 IBM laptop. My question is has anybody used the monitor portion to display something ? If so could you explain what to do to connect it up to a better PC. The screen is just the right size to run a GPS add-on which will make up part of my pedastel or MIP.Thanks for your thoughts...JB

Hi guys,I haved moved my primary flght instruments and the engine instruments to a 2nd and 3rd monitor. Other than that I am running stuff like the FSAvionics Garmin and FsFlightmax in the background. I made sprcial panels that integrate the Garmin and Flightmax.Now I have come to the point where I get a considerable frame rate hit. So I decided to move the stuff to a 2nd computer. Now here is my problem:WideFS allows me to run the external programs like flightmax and the Garmin on a 2nd computer, but will not allow me to display my panels with them.WideView allows to diplay an external view but as I have read in the readme to my great disapointment it is not possible to …

Hi guys - just alerting you to the fact that I have my Flight Link AV-IFR console including a twin engine throttle quadrant on Ebay.http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=1949220720

For my glass cockpit project I need the RAL color of the Boeing cockpit. Does someone have these numbers?David

Does anyone know where I can find a an encoder that matches the functionality of the B747-400 Heading/Bank Angle/Sel knob (regardless of price)? It has to be dual concentric and have a pushbutton on top.Any help would be greatly appreciated!Best regards,Pesach(KJFK)

Hi everybody,I just red an incredible news in the german cockpit builder forum.http://www.wcm.at/vb2/showthread.php?s=&th...38&pagenumber=2Enrico Schiratti announced that he might stop selling his products to the cockpit builder community and will concentrate his business only on the professionnal simulation market. Support for amateurs will be maintained.It may open a huge door to skilled programmers.Happy New Year to youRoger

To build twist-type knob controls (i.e. to control radios, OBSs. DGs and HSIs etc) do I have to use an EPIC card?If not, what else can be used?

Hi All...as I've been building my cockpit I've been thinking what is the best way to interact with ATC. Currently with FS2K I have to press 1/2/3....etc to acknowledge their commands or pick next option. I use to use ProFlight 2000 and found this OK. Is there a better add-on/program to interact with ATC commands so I don't have to keep bringing ATC menu commands up on screen ?A penny for people's thoughts please as I work my way through this cockpit building hobby ?Thanks for the help...JB

I just started up the Magenta demo on a dual moniter setup one pc.I know I need to network the system... Im just playing around with it now. Anyhow is there a way to get this thing to run ( magenta) in full acceleration and have fs running on the seperate moniters. I would search all the forms ... but I have to get my dads moniter back!Ie I need a quick answer or link.... THANKSJon

Hi there!I have just buyed my self a Asus GeForce 4 Ti4600 128mb with dual monitors, so now I have connected two screens to my computer, but how can I use FS in both of my screens?If this have been told before so please give me a link because i could not find anything when i searched!Thank you :)