Author: Tom Tsui

625: New Logitech Plug-in for MSFS

| Tom Tsui

Reported by David Bechkett that Logitech has now released a MSFS 2020 Plug-in for all Logitech Saitek Pro Flight Panels including the Radio Panel, Multi Panel, Switch Panel, and the Instrument Panel.

Apparently now SIMCONNECT, FSUIPC, and other 3rd party plug-ins are no longer required to use the Logitech Panels with MSFS 2020. All of the Logitech panels will now be recognized by MSFS 2020 if you download the Logitech Plug-in from the Logitech Support site.

Just search for the Panel that you have and in the downloads section you should find the new plug-in.   Here’s the link: https://support.logi.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360024692354–Downloads-Flight-Multi-Panel

That’s great news. Thanks very much, David.  Continue reading →

624: Running Logitech Panels in MSFS

| Tom Tsui

I pulled out my Logitech Panels from storage earlier today.   After a few hours testing, they are successfully communicating with MSFS via FSUIPC 7, like the FIPs.

Followings are the steps I found the most effective:
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623: Finding Button #s of Your Gears

| Tom Tsui

Whether your flightsim gears are instantly recognized by MSFS or not, you’ll need to find out what the numbers of the buttons are when selecting them in MSFS Control.

Unless your gears already come with a button number map, you’ll have to find them out yourself.   It’s pretty easy. Continue reading →

622: MSFS Control Mappings

| Tom Tsui

At the moment, only a few accessories are instantly recognized by the new Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS).  The Honeycomb Alpha Yoke is one of them, which I used as a reference to set up my VRInsight Flight Master Yoke and other flightsim gears on my second computer.

It’s funny to look at the white buttons and the red buttons on the Yoke panel as they are wrongly placed carelessly.  The two red buttons for Batteries should be on the left and the two white buttons for Avionics should be on the right.   Wonder why no one from the Asobo team nor the Honeycomb team spotted the mistake and have it corrected in the last update.

Anyway, followings are the default button mappings on the Alpha Yoke: Continue reading →

621: Running FIP Gauges in MSFS with Logitech Drivers

| Tom Tsui

I am excited to inform you guys that FIP gauges under Logitech Drivers can actually be run properly in MSFS without the need of SPAD.neXt or other similar utilities available on the market.   In other words, all existing FSX/P3D gauges in my store are MSFS-compatible ready, despite whether Logitech will have updates supporting MSFS or not.

To run the FIP gauges using Logitech Drivers in MSFS, all you need Continue reading →

620: My MSFS Update 5

| Tom Tsui

Finally I got MSFS downloaded successfully today.

Probably the issue I encountered were fixed by the recent update since the installation steps I carried out are the same.   Anyway, glad to have it installed eventually. Continue reading →

619: XPL G5 with GPS Approach Implemented

| Tom Tsui

Thanks to Michael Sühs who kindly explained the operation of the GPS Approach on the GNS 430 and G1000 to me, the XPL Generic G5 HSI and PFD for X-Plane have been updated to R1r03 and R1r05 respectively with GPS Approach capability.  In addition, some bugs were fixed on the two instruments as well.
Download Links have been sent earlier today.  Current users should have received the email(s) in their mailboxes by now.   If not, Continue reading →

618: XPL C172SP RPM & VOR1 Updated

| Tom Tsui

The RPM and VOR1 gauges in the XPL C172SP series has been updated to r01 with some bug fixes.

Download Links have been sent earlier today.  Current users should have received the email(s) in their mailboxes by now.   If not, Continue reading →

617: My FIP Gauges and MSFS

| Tom Tsui

The update patch for MSFS is out, which claims to solve many issues in the first release.   I still haven’t tried re-installing MSFS yet due to various personal matters.   But surely will do it again very soon.

During these days, have received many emails questioning about the compatibility of my FIP gauges with MSFS.

Frankly, due to my current situation of not an MSFS user, I am really not a good person to give a proper answer.

However, some users of my gauges have reported successfully running FIP gauges in MSFS Continue reading →