Just added an LED stripe to the glare shield in my cockpit. Again, the LEDs were bought over six months ago and hadn’t been installed until yesterday…haha.
Instead of just turning on and off the glare shield light, I have added a turning knob type USB dim switch to control the brightness of it. Continue reading
Systems
653: My Cockpit Rev #25
During the last two holiday weeks, I basically spent all my free time on playing MSFS 2020, and fine-tuning the computer and MSFS setup. Now the Radios from Flight Illusion is working fine with MSFS in general. Even though not fully compatible, yet they look great together with the FIPs.
Regarding the Thrustmaster TPR Pendular Rudder I added to my system last November, I would say it is the best from all Pedals I’ve ever used. Continue reading
651: My Cockpit Rev #24
Plan can’t catch up with change — my cockpit rebuilding project is a good example. It was virtually completed right before the launch of the MSFS 2020 a couple of months ago.
Many components I built for P3D then have to be reworked to cope with the new simulator now.
For example the Flight Instrument Panels (FIPs) that were networked and now have to be connected to the main PC directly; and the two TVs on both sides are no longer usable for surround purposes as they are in different sizes (main TV 65-inch; side TVs 49-inch) that MSFS doesn’t support.
Fortunately, new plan is catching up. Except the avionics set, others have been set properly even though finetuning is still needed.
Also, there are new components to be added soon. Continue reading
649: 4K Monitor Refresh Rate for MSFS
Since my new PC with an RTX3090 graphics card was straight out from the box, the framerate steadies around 30 under Ultra settings. Even though I was a bit surprised by this low number, I didn’t pay much attention to it since everything seems to be working fine.
Until the last weekend I had some time seriously looking at the new system. I found the framerate didn’t change much no matter what I did to the settings. The framerate still sat around 30 somethings.
I started to wonder why since the framerate on my other computer with an i7 6850 CPU and 1080Ti graphics card gains a lot more than that under Ultra settings.
Excluding the CPU and the graphics card, the most suspicious cause of the low framerate seems to be from the monitors I found lastly. Continue reading
643: My Cockpit Rev #23 – My New Rig
It’s almost four years since I purchased my last computer for flight simulation. It’s still 
working good. However, it’s commonly agreed that hardware for flight simulation is just like the song in the “The Greatest Showman” movie – Never Enough.
Cannot say it’s the best timing to upgrade but since my work computer (nearly 10 years old) acted a bit odd lately, I decided to substitute it with my current flight computer and purchase a new one for flight simulation.
The specs are: Continue reading
News: P3D v5.1 Released
Lockheed Martin has finally released P3D v5.1. Seems like not too many people are aware of it (based on the number of respondents in its support forum) while most people are keeping their eyes on MSFS — me the same.
Anyway, hope this update solves or at least improves the many issues reported after its launch. There are still many features MSFS can’t or doesn’t do properly today.
629: My Second Impression on MSFS
Since I successfully reinstalled the new Flight Simulator (MSFS) two weeks ago, many of my unpleasant impressions about it stated in Post 611 were overturned.
I am not saying that the new MSFS has replaced P3D to be my flightsimming platform. But I have to admit that the more I fly with it, and the more I like it; especially for “sight-seeing” purposes only.
Followings are my subjective ratings on some of the key features I give to MSFS based on the requirements of my cockpit, compared to P3D and X-Plane.
I am expecting the scores to change soon as there are quite some products have been released or being developed for it.
620: My MSFS Update 5
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
617: My FIP Gauges and MSFS
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
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