A productive evening

It started with the aviation headset project, and just kept rolling along this evening!

After building and testing the MIC adaptor I mounted the finished unit in the Arrow, and had to go for a test flight (obviously!). I started the sim, configured and tested the mic, then took off from Whitianga in *awful* weather, heading for Tauranga. Unfortunately I discovered a potential scenery fault with the sim crashing to desktop not long after leaving Whitianga heading along the coast. More testing and investigation to follow!

I recently installed Pete Dowson’s Auto-Save, which, as the name implies, automatically saves your flight at pre-determined intervals… so when the sim re-started after the crash, it returned to a point within a few minutes of the crash. My flight plan was quickly amended to head for Hamilton instead, climbing up through the cloud and off towards the Waikato, and eventually a rainy, cloudy arrival into Hamilton.

Next up was some messing around with the AFCS, or autopilot, in the Skyhawk. For a while I knew that a bunch of settings got messed up in an update, but I haven’t gotten around to fixing it… but tonight I finally did. Settings corrected, and tested, and some enhancements made. Once again, with mods made, I had to do a test flight, so with new check-list in hand I started up and blasted off from Whenuapai in the same awful weather as I encountered in the Arrow, rendezvoused with an Orion, and just as I pulled the trigger to take a guncam shot a background application failed, and caused FS to hang! It seems it really was a night for sim-work, not sim-flight!

After shutting everything down I headed back to the workbench to play with my remote Mancave door light controller… Good fun!

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