Tonight’s project is the ARC-159 UHF Radio. I built the current one some years ago, using “ACCIS”, the original sim interface by Stuart Whelan. The encoders have never
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Researching, Building and Flying the TA-4k Skyhawk Simulator
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Flight Testing
Tonight was spent testing some AFCS mods, aiming on making the autopilot more responsive, and to test the the “phantom” auto-throttle issue was resolved. The first part of
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Auto-throttle? On an A-4??
Well with all the software mods I’ve made to the sim in the past few weeks something was bound to go wrong…. Somewhere in amongst the UFC/DED
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New *Real* gun sound
Thanks to a video shared on Facebook, and the Audio Mastery of Andy Gilmour, I now have a correct, sampled Colt Mk12 cannon sound in the sim!
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Low level, All weather Strike!
A great blast in the Skyhawk tonight! I planned a short low level cross country from Ohakea, down through the Wairarapa valley, visiting some places from my teenage
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Waypoint “Step” function
I have always wanted to be able to cycle through flightplan waypoints in the cockpit, and tonight I achieved just that! Using a LUA script, reading and writing
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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
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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