Month: August 2022

789: MSFS V35B Guage Presale

| Tom Tsui

In past few days, I received a couple of ASI gauge orders for the A2A Simulations’ V35B. Upon confirmations, the buyers actually need the instrument for the just released Carenado’s V35B in MSFS 2020.  Moreover, the existing ASI for the A2A’s V35B (for FSX and P3D only) is NOT compatible with the Carenado’s V35B in MSFS.

Actually, I have been working on a dedicated FIP gauge set for the MSFS version already because the V35B is one of my favorites, too.

To avoid confusion, here’s the detail of the gauge set before its announcement.MSFS_V35B_Z_BUNDLE_FULL
As planned, there will be 11 to 12 gauges, including the Engine Cluster, tailor-made for the Carenado V35B.  However, Continue reading →

788: My New Aircraft View

| Tom Tsui

For more than a year, I’ve been flying VFR mainly with a full forward view without showing the virtual cockpit panel as described in my Post 638, 639 and 697.

However, lately I found showing the propeller and engine hood during curising actually adds more fun.


And, most importantly, brings forth Continue reading →

787: MSFS Performance Hit By FIPs Q&A

| Tom Tsui

A friend, Lonn in the US, who emailed me with some questions regarding MSFS performance hit he encountered lately after he got his 7th Logitech FIP and my C172 CMP+Annunciator.  I think his case is worth a post to clear up some queries among those who are building their home cockpits with FIPs.

His questions here:

How many Fips do you run? I am getting a 7th and have noticed lately that my cpu usage is getting high on the Logiflightsimulator.exe or Logitech exe for the panels.

I also noticed certain gauges use more CPU intensive. Like the new Cessna 172 CMP I just bought from you seems to use alot of cpu compared to another asi gauge etc. How do you deal with it.

If I turn off the logitech panel drivers altogether I get better fps since the cpu isn’t bogged down. I know you run alot of panels and wondered how you work around this?

It seems the more complex the gauge set the more cpu that logitech exe takes up. Like the CH701 takes up nothing. But you start getting the eng on the 172 along with the hsi and the new cmp and the cpu usage is very high.

Man I am going to have to start planning my gauges around cpu usage. Any advise? Do you have this issue?

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786: G5 PFD UPDATE (For MSFS ONLY)

| Tom Tsui

With the introduction of the Airspeed Switcher added to the Generic G5 PFD, I received some requests for help and feedbacks for its manual installation process.

Compared to the automatic installation of the G5 PFD, I admit the manual installation of the Airspeed Switcher a little clumsy.G5_AirSpeed_Switcher

Therefore, the installer has been revised accordingly so that the Airspeed Switcher will now be installed automatically with the G5 PFD.  So users are no longer needed to read a couple of pages of text in order to install it.  Everything is now completed automatically.

SIMILARLY, the update is for MSFS platform ONLY.  If you are running FSX or P3D, DON’T INSTALL the update. Continue reading →

785: G5 HSI Update (for MSFS Only)

| Tom Tsui

The Generic G5 HSI has been updated to R4r01 with similar Wind DirectionG5_HSI_GIFS fixes as applied to the other HSI and HDG earlier.

NOTE that the update is REQUIRED for MSFS platform ONLY.  If you are running FSX or P3D, DON’T INSTALL the update.

BTW, as I have no longer run FSX and P3D any more, and all newer and future versions of both G5 HSI and PFD are, and will be updated for MSFS platform only, the Category of the gauges in my store has been changed from MSFS+P3D to MSFS_Generic.
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