Sort of having a break in the last two weeks without touching anything related to the flight simulation. 
Besides it’s summer, I just wanna to wait for the new Windows 10 and reinstall everything from scratch after it.
But oh my dear, it took me two days to do the upgrade due to various hardware issues I had no idea what they’re all about. After numerous attempts, the upgrade was eventually successful, but onto a new SSD as my last resort yesterday. Phew. Continue reading
I’ve thought about making a video for the new C172 Standalone Gauges as I did for the earlier Integrated Series. However, I wasn’t sure how to do it because I don’t have enough FIPs myself.
Luckily, Markus Anderson in Sweden just sent me his videos showing the Standalone Gauges with his newly bought BEH Force Feedback Yoke in his cockpit setup. Looks pretty good to me.
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Last week, I received some cockpit photos from Dean Carlton in Australia while I was busily changing the diaper for my grandson. When I finally got a chance to open the email, the photos were not particularly sweet to me since the image quality of them wasn’t really that good (pardon me, Dean). But what really catched my eyes was the setup and how it was built, which is something I’ve been longing to do for years.
In addition, Dean attached a short story describing how he planned and what he chose for his system. Plus a little side-info about his life, from the smash of his early dream to become an RAF pilot to what he is and where he is heading now. I found it interesting as every person is the leading role in his/her own play under of the Almighty director.
Here’s a quick link to Dean’s cockpit photos. Don’t forget to scroll down if you are interested to read his story.
Send me yours. People will love to see it, too.
Here are the preview images of the standalone C172 Gauges. Although they are, in theory, the extractions from the current Integrated Gauge Series, 
many of the artworks and layouts are newly drawn. So do some programming for optimization.
At present, all these standalone gauges are taking up the full footprint (320 x 240) of the Flight Instrument Panel (FIP). All knobs and buttons work as they should be.
Two things are yet to be decided: Continue reading
Wanna to try out the Steam Edition of FSX for quite some time after hearing good feedback from friends and on the internet. However, there were worries about the adding of FSX Steam might somehow mess up my non-Steam system.
The wait is over. 
Steam Online store is undergoing Summer Sale until 22nd of this month. My newly purchased copy of FSX Steam in bundle with Cargo Crew and Dangerous Approaches ($19.99, 66% off from regular) is being installed onto a separate SSD with Windows 10 via VMWare Workstation.
Will FSX Steam have a place among my current simulators? Time will tell.
My C172 Integrated Gauge Series combine 14 instruments plus many other functions found on the C172 cockpit. The project was started a year ago since I only had seven FIPs at that time. And it was not economical (still true) to put some of the simple instruments each onto standalone FIPs.
However, never stop receiving inquires from friends asking for their standalone versions. So, before moving forward onto twin engines, I will spend some times working on these standalone gauges first. They include: Continue reading
Here comes the brown color variations of the Attitude Indicator as promised months ago. Notification and download links for this update have been sent to all users. 
Unlike the previous updater, Continue reading
The Attitude Indicator has just been updated to include the OMI Markers. They will 
light up accordingly when beacons are encountered around any airport that provides these signals.
Notification of this update patch has been sent to all existing users.
This update patch (so will be the future ones) is included with an automatic updater to make installation and update of my gauges as simple as possible.
The brown-color version of this gauge shown on the right is coming soon. Improvement doesn’t stop at what we are. Continue reading
Some friends are curious about how my C172 Integrated Gauges all together look in real simulator. Here are four quick videos showing how they perform from Engine Startup, Taxi, Take-off to Maneuver. Background airport is Bowerman KHQM in the United States. Simulator is Prepar3D v25 with the free Bowerman airport addon from Orbx.
Truly, since my one hand Continue reading
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