One of my FIPs was broken down recently after serving my flightsimming system
stably for more than a decade. I opened its case to see if it is self-serviceable. Unfortunately all electronics components, except the LCD screen, were surface-mounted onto the circuit board.
Followings are the teardown pictures of the unit for those who are interested to see what are packed inside the FIP. Continue reading
If you are a friend of Prepar3D like me, mark on your calendar that version 5 is coming in a week’s time (14-April). Not much about the details of it so far but here’s the video Lockheed Martin posted on Youtube. The ground texture of the airport runway at the end of the video looks amazing.
A good news at least for many of us needed to stay@home these days.
Although the using of the dental floss picks plastic box for the parking brake 
modification described in the last post does the job nicely, the plastic box itself in milky transparent color, however, looks a bit odd among my other cockpit stuffs. Moreover, as the case was hard-drilled onto the underneath side of the table, I find I am giving myself a hard time when I need to readjust its position accordingly when the yoke is moved.
After many different attempts, I finally managed to repackage the parking brake module onto a hard paper board cut from an old Chinese Moon Cake box. Continue reading
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