A friend having the same Asus X99 Deluxe II motherboard as I do last week 
phoned me if I had any idea why the Bluetooth on his system didn’t connect to any devices at all. He said all software were the latest.
In order to connect to his Bluetooth headphone, he had to use an external Bluetooth dongle, which was clumsy and not user-friendly.
I had my head scratches in the beginning as I hadn’t have the issue before. After a few Whatsapps, we together figured out it was Continue reading
by Alexey Podrezov
After Logitech acquired Saitek, the entire Cessna Pro Flight line, including the highly praised Cessna Yoke, came to an end. Out of discontent with the limited 90-degree rotation on the long-existed G Flight Yoke, Alexey, the developer of FIP Toolkit and Customizer, decided to give it a 180° mod. Here’s the story.
After checking a few reviews on the existing flight simulator yokes on YouTube, I 
realized that my Logitech/Saitek G Flight Yoke needs to be modded.
The yoke’s rotation is limited to 90 degrees. I am not sure why Saitek decided to do it that way, but I wanted to have the proper rotation angle: 180 degrees, like on the professional yokes and on the real airplanes. So I bought a broken yoke (the main board seems to be fried) from a local guy and started to look for the ways to achieve my goal. Continue reading
As stated in the Alpha Yoke review earlier, the “extended” FIP adaptation approach makes it even harder for users to access switches on the face-plate.
Here’s my correctional modification so as to place the FIP stack backward a bit behind the bracket-mount of the Alpha yoke. Continue reading
Regarding the fuel-flow reading errors caused by Logitech’s X-Plane plugin on 
Flight Instrument Panel (FIP) reported in Post 505, I am so happy to announce that the nasty issue has been finally solved for good, no need to beg for help from Logitech any more.
In light of some addons I came across: since the Logitech plugin fails to read the “fuel_flow_kg_sec” dataref properly, I popped up an idea that I could probably create something else to substitute the erratic function to read the fuel-flow values correctly. Continue reading
In my Post 574, I mentioned that the two knobs on the face-plate of the FIP, if broken, are simply unrepairable, but Oz Flyer (David) in the Comment suggested two possible solutions to repair them. Here’s the first one I just tried since I don’t have a 3D printer as required in his second suggestion.
Stuffs needed are just some super glue and WD40, and I put everything on a piece of paper to avoid either the glue or the WD40 spilling over onto the table.
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My flightsim computer is built on the ASUS X99 Deluxe II motherboard with Intel i7 6850K CPU. Not the top highend nor the latest model but it works nicely.
However, it has an annoying problem that it seldom boots up succcessfully from cold and dark — sorry, no prime function boost here. Most of the time the system goes to Windows only from the second or sometimes the third or fourth startup attempt.
My computer and peripherals all have the latest firmware and drivers. The issue persists whether I overclock the PC or not.
I searched the Internet and found the issue isn’t uncommon especially among systems built on the X99 chipset running Windows 10, regardless of brand.
I tried many suggestions, such as unplugging all USB devices when booting the computer, disabling/enabling certain features in BIOS, etc.
None of them helps until recently I found the following tweak: Continue reading
A friend, Francois, in France who recently contacted Alexey Podrezov, the developer of FIP Toolkit, about the problem he faced when trying to use the utility. After getting a solution from Alexey, he reported back to me that the problem was due to the driver that he uses.
Instead of the more recent Logitech version, Francois is using the older FIP driver from Saitek, which somehow disables the creation of a Windows registry that is necessary for the running of the Toolkit during installation.
To fix the issue, he will have to Continue reading
In last post, I mentioned that some of the commands I used to assign to buttons and knobs on the FIP are not functioning or matching when using the valuetranscribing feature to run FSX/P3D gauges in X-Plane.
A friend, Rodrigo in Brazil, says the trick is Continue reading
Not sure how many of you have occasionally encountered a bizarre situation in which all functions, such as OBS and heading bug, that are controlled by the knobs on the Logitech/Saitek FIPs (Flight Instrument Panels) suddenly move faster in 10-degree (step) per turn than the default 1-degree (step) per turn.
The cause of the issue is unknown but generally it can be cured by warm-booting (or in some cases, cold-booting) the computer.
In the last six months, I encountered the issue once or twice. Instead of rebooting the computer, Continue reading
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