Flight Instrument Panel
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
Just noted recently from SPAD.neXt’s website, saying that FIP gauges developed for FSX/P3D platform can now be run in X-Plane using its valuetranscribing feature without any modification. That’s a good news as I have been stuck for more than two years by the incomplete transcodings of SPAD.neXt’s attempt on making FSX/P3D gauges to be compatible in X-Plane.
In the last few days, I’ve been testing the compatibility of many of my FSX/P3D gauges under X-Plane 11 platform running alongside SPAD.neXt. Followings are my findings: Continue reading
A few more sets of FIP gauges for the default Maule M7, Carenado C172N and A2A BeechCraft A35 were developed in the last few months. In addition, the Carenado C152 gauges have also been updated. They are all ready now.
Among them all, the Autopilot Control (APC) for the Maule is the most interesting one as it not only fits on the Maule but also good for most other aircraft, in particular to those setups that don’t equip with any autopilot hardware.
Since I released the Piper Cub gauges two years ago, there are emails once in a while asking me if the gauges are compatible with A2A’s Piper Cub or if there will be dedicated gauges developed for the A2A aircraft.
Well, here it comes at last. Even though I don’t fly this fun aircraft much, I am still happy to have it completing my Piper Cub sets.
Do note that since all A2A aircraft use Local Variables (LVars), these new gauges are no exception needing SPAD.neXt to run properly on the FIPs (Flight Instrument Panels). Continue reading
Followings are the final feedback accumulated over the last 10 days for the survey of “How Many FIPS Do You Have?” posted on August 31. Tentative results from day 1 and day 3 are included for comparisons.
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The Robin DR400 may not be as popular as the Cessna C172 worldwide. But friends in Europe told me that it is still a well-liked aircraft especially in the Southern continent.
I made the ASI for it 18 months ago. Now, the ATT, ALT, HDR and Integrated Engines are finished as well.
Together with the VSI from deHavilland DHC-2, TCR from MilViz DHC-2, VOR1 and VOR2 from Cessna C172SP, they generally complete the instrument cluster on the Lionheart DR400/180. Continue reading
An X-Plane version of the GaugeSwitcher is also developed for those who are using the Logitech X-Plane Plugins for my FSX Times Gauges.
It works similarly and can handle up to 60 FIP gauge setups for X-Plane as well.
The utility has been sent to all users of my XP_Logitech gauges by emails. Should anyone who hasn’t received the download link in their mailboxes by now could Continue reading
GaugeSwitcher is a handy program I developed a couple of years ago to help Saitek FIP Driver users to quickly switch between multiple FSX Times Gauges (say from C172SP to B58 to Mooney Bravo to RAS Duke or vice versa) to match with the aircraft being used or to be used in FSX, FSX-SE and P3D.
The utility was given to users of my Gauges once but stopped for some reasons.
Now, the utility is available again with many optimizations, including compatibility with both Saitek and Logitech Drivers, and Continue reading
Unlike the current Cessna Wet Compass, a new generic wet compass for Saitek/Logitech FIP (Flight Instrument Panel) has been created to cope with a larger number of different types of aircraft, including BeechCraft, Piper, Mooney, Robinson, etc. The compass has been requested for quite some times but I hadn’t had a good idea of how to do it right in the first place until recently.
In addition, the new compass comes with 4 slightly different designs so as to better match with the different layouts in various cockpit requirements.
Although the differences between these designs may not be significant; however, these little or unnoticable touches, are many of the essences I’ve been putting in my gauges. Because I believe, many times, what makes somethings special are the little things we sometimes ignore. Continue reading
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