There have been a number of updates taking place on the website over the past week. Most are behind-the-scenes, and others are in testing for a future release.
General
Awesome project at work
We recently bought an old 737-200 for conversion to a 737NG sim. It contained an almost complete main front panel, and a complete pedestal. Now, after many hours
Sim Visit: Ken’s King Air
Ken has a really nice King Air 200 sim, with full G1000 glass cockpit. I spent the evening helping Ken with a couple of problems, then finished with
Man Cave upgrade and Virtual Tower View
Big upgrade to the Man Cave, and the addition of a “Virtual Control Tower” to my sim network. Using Eric Marciano’s ATC Radar gauge, in FS2004 running on
Funny 10 minute project
Combine a bunch of bits out of the spares box with a simple 3d printed ships wheel… and here we have a ship-sim control console with wheel and
Formation and Tanking Training
Multiplayer is now running really well and smoothly using iBNET. Tonight I had 3 drones operating; HMNZS Canterbury, B707 Tanker and a US Navy A-3. Joining on the
Multiplayer fun
Ok… a little out of the ordinary; I have setup a PC to be a “drone” for the TA-4. Basically I plan on loading this thing up as
MapBox Tiles for Plan-G
A nice addon for Plan-G appeared on flightsim.com yesterday. A custom Tile-set definition for MapBox. It completely changes the look of the map tiles, with loads of information,
Updates, updates!
Since the last entry a bit has happened in the man cave… Just after the last post, the AFCS blew up. Well, more specifically the Arduino got so
