Following the RealAir Duke, the FIP gauges for the Aircreation 582SL have also been updated. The new version 160624 
includes a number of coding and graphical enhancements, in addition to some minor bugs fixed.
Users of the gauges should have received the download link by now in their mailboxes.
More to come. Stay tuned.
The RealAir Duke Gauges have been updated to version 160622, which includes a number of fixes and major graphical 
enhancement, plus the additional “Extra” VSI version and Oil Quantity in Turbine Engine set.
Existing users should have received email(s) containing the download links and related information by now in their mailboxes.
Another upgrade to come soon is the GaugeSwitcher utility. The new version will not only simplify UI and operations, but also has the ability to delete unwanted profiles from the list. Most importantly, there will be no more needs of pressing “Esc” during switching.
Stay tuned.
The R22 Robinson Gauge Set for the Saitek FIP is finally completed. It was requested by some helicopter fans many months ago. Equipment in the R22 cockpit, from compass to flight instrument, and from clock and warning lights to engine gauges, have all been integrated into this 9-FIP gauge set.
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The Moritz Digital Engine Gauges for the Duke Turbine V2 are now ready, 
which completes the two RAS Duke gauge sets released earlier in March.
This engine set consists of six gauges in pair format, including the Torque (TRQ), ITT Temperature, NG %RPM, Prop RPM, Fuel Flow and Fuel Pressure.
One known issue — small deviations sometimes appear on the NG %RPM and Prop RPM gauges due to the two gauges using local variables (Lvars), which the Saitek FIP driver doesn’t support. It’s more prominent when the aircraft is on the ground, and less significant in the air.
Nevertheless, various workaround codings have been implemented to minimize incompatibility derived from the Saitek drivers. Continue reading
With the release of its latest Library 160528, Orbx announces its soon-to-come unified lclookup (landclass lookup) update, which will completely eliminate the need of switching regions via FTX Central anymore.
No doubt it’s a good thing. But since regions and scenery will all be active under the new environment, will the startup loading time be prolonged proportionally or even significantly is yet to discover, not to mention any unknown potential performance hit?
The size of the library is now triple of previous versions. Let’s hope for the better, nevertheless.
EDIT 1: The new FTX Central is already available.
EDIT 2: Just had a quick flight and didn’t see any performance hit.
Similar to the last two cases in which I needed to have my system fully reinstalled many months ago, Lockheed Martin released another update of its Prepar3D after I have everything restored. The Prepar3D v3.3 is here, just in case you are not aware of it.
Don’t tell me there’s a psychic connection between my system crash to the launch of its update. ;)
Although there are still some fine-tunings to do, my computer is in general up and running again after a few days’ reinstallation and updating.
Over the rehabilitation process, I had a chance to tidy up my system a bit and get rid of many useless stuffs from my SSDs. I guess it is one of the good things I get from the broken computer.
Like many others, I have Multicore Next and P3D Fiber Accelerator from FSPS (Flight Simulator Platform Solutions), which I occasionally use for testings and other purposes. During a recent search for Continue reading
After my car was hit a few weeks ago. My printer broke down last week. Today, my computer has crashed unrecoverably as well. I have to reinstall everything. I guess it will take a couple of days to a week at least to revert everything back to normal. During this period, my response will be slow.
Misfortunes never come singly. Even though I am trying to look at all these unhappy things from the bright side, I still can’t help yelling “Damn! Damn! Damn!”
Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080 is rumored to be publicly released by the 27th of this 
month. Some technical websites preview it “twice as fast as a Titan X” but only priced around 60% of its predecessor. The company even calls the card “Gaming Perfected”.
Surely it’s just another marketing buzz word. But still, I can’t help looking forward to seeing what new level this next generation card is going to bring to the various flight simulation platforms nowadays, no matter it is FSX, FSX Steam, P3D or X-Plane. Sadly, it’s not likely that I will replace my Titan X for it, at least not in the coming year.
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