I’ve been a bit lazy doing anything these days except playing MSFS occasionally. Yesterday, I got some excitments — the damper kit for my Thrustmaster TPR Rudders finally arrived after nearly a month’s misplaced shipment.
The $65 damper kit from Cubesim in China includes one (1) damper stabilizer unit and four (4) 3D-printed clamping parts, along with necessary bolts & nuts to attach the unit to the TPR rudders. The kit is non-destructive to the rudders. The way how it implements is different from other similar products I’ve seen on the web. Continue reading
Author: Tom Tsui
748: Windows 11 – It’s Good
Just upgraded one of my computers to Windows 11 today. I wouldn’t say it’s perfect. But I am impressed !
Frankly, I was a bit hesitated since I heard pros and cons from the Internet. So before the process, I backed up my whole system just in case something goes wrong.
Despite the Apple mac-like centered taskbar and new layout designs, all programs on my computer generally start a lot faster than what they are with Windows 10.
Both MSFS and X-Plane 11 start up a lot quicker. They run smoother with some frame-rate improvements, too. Continue reading
747: Multi-Shared ATT Updated
The adjustment of the artificial aircraft on the Multi-shared Attitude Indicator via the knobs on the FIP was inverted since the last few MSFS updates.
Just spotted the bug recently and have it corrected to R1r03 so as to match with the one in the virtual cockpit again.
Download Link have been sent to all users already. Continue reading
746: Landing Gear, Landing Gear
Have been revising many of my gauges lately. Here’s another two of them which now come with enhanced landing gear indicators.
The first is the RPM of the Just Flight PA28R Arrow III and Turbo III/IV. The new landing gear indicators on the left now take the comprehensive Gear Unsafe & Gear N-L-R style from the aircraft, rather than the simple one used on the right in the last version released in September, which took from the M20R.
The landing gear indicators on the Carenado M20R Engine Cluster also updated to simulate the up-down movements of the indicators on the aircraft as well.
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745: C152/A ENG FUEL QTY CORRECTED
A new C152/A Engine Cluster user, Roland Duhme, just pointed out to me that the Fuel Quantity Indicators 
is unclear and incorrect on the Asobo airplane, which I carried forward to my gauge.
He said there’s no C152 has 100 LBS fuel capacity so the upper scale should be in percentage but there’s not a “%” mark for it. In addition, the fuel quantity in GAL in the lower scale for the two tanks are 14 gallons each instead of 18 as show in the cockpit.
Good point. Even though I realized the marking a bit strange when I was developing the gauge, I just put it is what it is in the C152/A Engine. Continue reading
744: G58 ENG with Landing Gear
In addition to some minor fixes, the B58-Style Engine Cluster for the G58 in MSFS has been updated to R1r01, which now includes the landing gear indicator as well.
743: Flying the G58 like a B58
To friends (including me) who have an FIP-based virtual cockpit setup might have missed the Beechcraft Baron a lot, as the aircraft have been “upgraded” from analog gauges (B58) in FSX/P3D to G1000 panels (G58) in MSFS.
No more. Following the recent updates that allow many of my B58 Gauges to be used in MSFS, the B58 Engine Clusters have been converted to cope with the spec of the G58 in MSFS as well.
In other words, we can now fly the G58 in MSFS like a B58 with the analog instruments on the FIPs as shown below:
742: Free MSFS ATT Upgrade
There are 4 different types of Attitude Indicator (ATT) in MSFS.
The first one is used on the Cessna C152, C172 and DR400. The second is based on the first one but comes with an additional inclinometer. Among all 30 default aircraft in MSFS, only the Zlin Shock Ultra uses the second ATT.
The third and the fourth ATTs have a different layout than the first two. And they are differentiated by the additional inclinometer as well.
But unlike the first two ATTs, the knobs on the third and fourth ATTs are for the caging of the miniature aircraft, rather than for the adjustments of the miniature aircraft as in the first two ATTs. Continue reading
741: FIP 3-Gauge PACKS for G1000 Aircraft
Jim Gerow recently raised in the Discord’s Gauges-for-MSFS Channel that flightsimmers, like him, run their cockpits with the G1000 hardware might only need the corresponding FIP Gauges for the ASI, ATT and ALT. He proposed that some 3-Gauge Packs for the G1000 aircraft in MSFS should be added to my FIP line-up.
Yes, that makes sense. Five 3-Gauge Packs for the Cessna C172-G1000, Cirrus SR22, Diamond DA40-NG, BeechCraft G36 and G58 have jsut been created.
In addition, extra ALT versions Continue reading
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