During a Trademe search for something unrelated I stumbled on Thrustmaster’s new TWCS Throttle. It looks pretty close to the ‘Kahu’ Throttle, and is PnP so means no
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Researching, Building and Flying the TA-4k Skyhawk Simulator
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Next project?
This was drawn a while back… now I need a project to experiment with backlighting, and this looks like a good candidate!
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Formation tanking
These photos were taken during a multiplayer mission a few years ago, paving the way for future missions 🙂 The 737 was one of our sims at work,
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Sim Intercom
After much research, head scratching and changes of plans… I *think* I have a workable solution for my sim intercom systems. I had gone down the track of
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A little ‘bourbon induced video-ness’
After I got the STEP function working on the NAS, I decided to shoot a couple of videos in the cockpit…. I blame Mr Jim Beam myself….. Anyway;
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NAS ‘STEP’ Function
Well, with a huge thanks to David Dibbell the NAV/ATTACK SYSTEM (or NAS) now has a waypoint ‘STEP’ function! This is such a big deal, I actually broke
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TA-4k GPS Nav Update
While perusing the flightsim.com ‘latest files’ yesterday I found an FS9 GPS update by David Dibbell which adds some really cool functions to the standard GPS, including a proper, working waypoint
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TA-4k Instructor Update
Tonight I integrated Eric Marciano’s Easy FMS into the TA-4, allowing the instructor/back-seater to create, load and manipulate the flightplan loaded into the NAS in the sim. Eric’s
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Formation Clip
Tonight I was tidying up some old photos and video clips and found this: A nice little 15 second clip of a formation hop over Korea…
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New Clock for the Skyhawk
This came up on a website recently in the “misc bits” category; Listed as “broken/not working”… but it was cheap. Once it arrived I discovered that the sweep