After talking all these year about my cockpit rebuilding, it’s really making progress this time and it should be completed within the next two months if no unexpected issues coming up.
The equipment I finally picked are as follows: Continue reading
562: Turn Off FIP Button Light the Hard Way
Many friends asked if it is possible to turn off the light of the buttons on the Flight Instrument Panels (FIPs) and continue to keep their functions active at the same time. The answer is NO under the Logitech driver as described in Post 215.
However, from the teardown of the broken FIP reported in last post, I came up a hard(ware) way to do it. Continue reading
561: FIP Teardown
One of my FIPs was broken down recently after serving my flightsimming system
stably for more than a decade. I opened its case to see if it is self-serviceable. Unfortunately all electronics components, except the LCD screen, were surface-mounted onto the circuit board.
Followings are the teardown pictures of the unit for those who are interested to see what are packed inside the FIP. Continue reading
News: Prepar3D Version 5 is Coming
If you are a friend of Prepar3D like me, mark on your calendar that version 5 is coming in a week’s time (14-April). Not much about the details of it so far but here’s the video Lockheed Martin posted on Youtube. The ground texture of the airport runway at the end of the video looks amazing.
A good news at least for many of us needed to stay@home these days.
560: My Cockpit Rev #10 – Parking Brake Remodified
Although the using of the dental floss picks plastic box for the parking brake 
modification described in the last post does the job nicely, the plastic box itself in milky transparent color, however, looks a bit odd among my other cockpit stuffs. Moreover, as the case was hard-drilled onto the underneath side of the table, I find I am giving myself a hard time when I need to readjust its position accordingly when the yoke is moved.
After many different attempts, I finally managed to repackage the parking brake module onto a hard paper board cut from an old Chinese Moon Cake box. Continue reading
559: My Cockpit Rev #09 – Modified Parking Brake
The picture on the right is a parking brake module I bought from Desktop Aviator many 
years ago. It didn’t even come with a decent brake handle. The device was kept in the storage until I “discovered” it when I was looking for something else.
Although it is trivial, I told myself that it should add fun to my system — I finally recalled that was the idea I bought it originally.
But then I found it too big to fit into the location under my yoke. So I opened the case to check out if it could be modified.
Luckily it is possible since the housing is wasting an awfully lot of space with just one tiny circuit board and a pull-push knob inside.
After some searching, I eventually picked a dental floss picks plastic box as the new case for it. Continue reading
News: Stay@home gifts from Simmarket
Simmarket is giving some “stay@home gifts” for free (such as the P-40 from A2A) and discounts on many products from various developers. Worth a look if you are not aware of it. Nothing to loose since you could grab some free stuff to play with at least. Offers end soon.
Fight Together Against COVID-19
The novel coronavirus (or more precisely the COVID-19) is spreading worldwide. Followings are a series of illustration by Dr. Lucci Lugee Liyeung in Hong Kong, who hopes to improve health awareness among children through her art. They are good for adults as well.
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558: Making Your Own Aircraft Reference
As mentioned in my last post, not all default nor third-party aircraft come with an aircraft reference file. If needed, to create a missing one isn’t difficult at all.
The Aircraft Reference is basically an html-formatted file with a name containing “aircraft model” + “_REF“ and a filename extension of “.htm” It is located in the aircraft folder under “SimObjects/Airplanes“.
If you don’t have much knowledge about html, you could simply: Continue reading
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