Malta!
In the early hours of this morning HMNZS Canterbury arrived in Malta, I expect there will be some shore leave coming up ;-)
Gear up!
Final wiring completed for the gear lever. Connected the switch and warning lamp up to a connection board which will mount behind the MIP. Also took the opportunity to repair...
Land!
After a very long transit of the Indian Ocean, F421 can see land again! Well into the Gulf of Aden, and that's Somalia in the background. Travelling up the Gulf,...
Radar Panel ready to be installed
Tonight I got some machine time on the CNC router and tested a new technique for making engraved panels. First test showed an error in my drawing, which was quickly...
More LUA Scripts makes the UFC come alive!
Installed and configured the second batch of LUA scripts, and configured more UFC buttons. Now I have COM and NAV tuning, display options for A-A targets and AFDS settings,...
Ticking a couple of small items off the list
Having a To-Do list is good for motivation... I use the "list" as a way of recording thing that either need fixing, or ideas I've had to upgrade the sim....
Radar Control Panel CAD/CAM Work
A quiet Sunday night CAD/CAM session, and I have the drawings and toolpaths complete for my Radar Control Panel. Renderings from Fusion 360 look pretty cool, and let me fine-tune...
Radar gets even better!
Eric Marciano, creator of the awesome F-16 Radar I use in the Skyhawk, has shared with me some technical details to help interact with his gauge from my RCP hardware....
Radar Control Panel Re-wire and update
This was the first Panel I built for my last Skyhawk sim... and was interfaced with a cheap game-pad, wired to the switches. It *did* work, not perfect but functional....