I am in the process of building 2 simulators. One will be a glass cockpit Precision Flight Control MFD. And the other is a Frasca 142 which will have more traditional "steam gauge" instruments.
Glass Cockpit MFD
Frasca 142
Thursday, February 18, 2021
I started to make some G1000's for my Precision Flight Controls MFD simulator. This will be my glass cockpit sim. I am following FlightSimMakers guide FlightSimMaker - YouTube and videos to make it. Here is what I have 3d printed so far.
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Well, It's been quite awhile! I just found out you can connect to X-Plane with a Teensy that has a library that can access X-Planes DataRefs. I got a Teensy board set up last night to connect with X-Plane 10. It looks like this information has been around for quite some time. So, the build continues.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Fort Worth Alliance Air Show 2007
Well, I don't think anyone ever reads this blog, but why should they if I never update it!
In the event anyone ever does ever read it here are a few pics from my trip to the Forth Worth Alliance Air Show I attended yesterday.
In the event anyone ever does ever read it here are a few pics from my trip to the Forth Worth Alliance Air Show I attended yesterday.
Sunday, March 4, 2007
First Post! SimConnection made!
Hello everyone!
I started this blog is to track the progress I am making on my flight simulator project. Perhaps other SimBuilders will find some of my ideas or solutions useful.
My goal is to build a flight simulator cockpit to work with Microsoft's Flight Simulator X. There is a new way to get information to and from the game now called SimConnect and I am going to use it in my project.
This project is going to take a long time! My guess is at least 3 years. But in the end I hope to have a real airplane cockpit, maybe a Cessna Skymaster 337, hooked up to MS Flight Simulator X. The cockpit will be fully functional and I will not have to use a keyboard or any other input device other than the cockpit controls and instruments to control and fly the Sim. The reason I would like to use the 337 is that it is a two engine plane and is a bit wider than most small single engine planes. Plus I happen to know where I can get two of them!
Of course they are not in the best shape but will work for what I need them for!
Well so far I have connected with SimConnect thanks to guidance I got from NOTASENATOR's Blog! Thanks for the contribution! SimConnect is not the easiest thing to find information about!
After following his tutorial I was able to connect to Flight Sim X and get the landing gear status from the Sim. Then I linked my program to the K8055 board so when the gear was toggled it would activate an LED on the K8055. I know that does not seem like much but knowing I can send signals to my board from the Sim is a big step forward!
That's where I am so far. I will try to get back and post some of my code for connecting to the K8055 in case others would like to see how I did it. And who knows, maybe some programmers will tell me how to do it right!
Never thought I would have a blog but what the heck, everyone else has one!
I started this blog is to track the progress I am making on my flight simulator project. Perhaps other SimBuilders will find some of my ideas or solutions useful.
My goal is to build a flight simulator cockpit to work with Microsoft's Flight Simulator X. There is a new way to get information to and from the game now called SimConnect and I am going to use it in my project.
This project is going to take a long time! My guess is at least 3 years. But in the end I hope to have a real airplane cockpit, maybe a Cessna Skymaster 337, hooked up to MS Flight Simulator X. The cockpit will be fully functional and I will not have to use a keyboard or any other input device other than the cockpit controls and instruments to control and fly the Sim. The reason I would like to use the 337 is that it is a two engine plane and is a bit wider than most small single engine planes. Plus I happen to know where I can get two of them!
Of course they are not in the best shape but will work for what I need them for!
I also have a bunch of old used aircraft instruments and avionics to use. Some are in really good shape and some are not.
I will try to hook these up to electronic Input/Output boards and Servo Controllers that will talk via SimConnect and relay information to and from the Sim. I have two of these boards now. I build a Velleman K8055 USB Experiment interface board from a kit.
I will try to hook these up to electronic Input/Output boards and Servo Controllers that will talk via SimConnect and relay information to and from the Sim. I have two of these boards now. I build a Velleman K8055 USB Experiment interface board from a kit. 
Well so far I have connected with SimConnect thanks to guidance I got from NOTASENATOR's Blog! Thanks for the contribution! SimConnect is not the easiest thing to find information about!
After following his tutorial I was able to connect to Flight Sim X and get the landing gear status from the Sim. Then I linked my program to the K8055 board so when the gear was toggled it would activate an LED on the K8055. I know that does not seem like much but knowing I can send signals to my board from the Sim is a big step forward!
That's where I am so far. I will try to get back and post some of my code for connecting to the K8055 in case others would like to see how I did it. And who knows, maybe some programmers will tell me how to do it right!
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