I never like the info texts on top left and top right corners in red color as they are hard to see. To change them into white color that I prefer, I go to [DISPLAY] section in the Prepar3D.cfg (or fsx.cfg) file. Then replace the values of
InfoUpperLeftTextColorUser, and
InfoUpperRightTextColor
from 255,0,0 (red) to 255,255,255 (white). That’s it. 
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by David Marsden
Many of us are advised to turn OFF Anisotropic and Anti-aliasing especially when running with FSX. David Marsden in UK finds it the exact opposite.
I have been experimenting with my settings to see what works best for my PC. It is running FSX and the specifications are not very high.
Core i7-4770K CPU @ 3.5 GHz
16 GB Ram
Windows 7 64 bit
NVidia Geforce GTX960 video card
Three screens for the main display and one other for the instruments
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I got the Bendix King Style Avionics Set from Flight Illusion nearly three years ago. Embarrassingly, it was put on the shelf until I recently moved forward with my cockpit rebuilding project finally. What a ridiculous waste!
Followings are photos how they are assembled to the DIY rack made of wood. 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
Joe Lavery is one of the earliest friends who sent me home cockpit photos nearly eight years ago. When he moved to a new home, he decided to install a proper shell that would make it more immersive while reassembling everything again. Following are some images showing the current state of his cockpit being rebuilt and parts that he newly made.
Builder: Joe Lavery
Location: Cardiff, Wales
ICAO: EGFF, Cardiff Airport
I originally had great expectation on Orbx’s True Earth Washington for P3D because the company’s True Earth Washington for X-Plane looks great. But when I got the P3D version yesterday, I have to say that I am disappointed since it is inferior to its X-Plane brother, especially in the two aspects below.
In its description, it says it offers 66,574 square miles of hand-corrected, crisp aerial imagery. However, crisp or not depends on how high you fly.
click to see larger imageThe “Cockpits_Collective” section has been removed. Previous photos in the section were transferred to their individual pages in the last few weeks with updates from some of the builders.
5/22 Update: Cockpit photos from Fernando Angel, Richard Leaton, Jean marie Humez and Doug Fields have been moved to their own pages today. Although their published dates remain unchanged, notifications of their additions to the blog are sent since they are actually new posts in a sense. You could directly search their names for their cockpit pages.
5/23 Update: Cockpits photos from Peter Rowney, Laurent Grossman, Randall Bliven and Dave Beckett have been moved to their own pages today.
5/24 Update: Cockpits photos from Andrew Crowhurst, Cap Steve, Brian McMullan, Sam Jay and Brian Buckley have been moved to their own pages today.
5/25 Update: Last batch of Cockpit photos from Stephan Schlitzer, Didier Misery, Jean Grabriel and Karsten Jaeger have been moved to their own pages .
David Lidgley submitted his cockpit photos six years ago. He continues to fly on his Slingsby T67A but has moved on to X-Plane 11 with some changes to the panel mainly with electronics.
Builder: David Lidgley
Location: Stockton-on-Tees, UK
ICAO: EGNV, Durham Tees Valley Airport
Regarding the background of my gauges, followings are the results from the “Gauge Background You Like More” survey posted on April 26.
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