On Tuesday 23 November 2004 14:54, Boris Koenig wrote: > Well thanks for the pointer, I am going to contact Garmin yet another > time anyway: Another FlightGear user informed me yesterday that there > IS already an application that interfaces the original (software) > simulator unit with MS FS 200x - this seems to be based on FSUIPC and > is called "FSGarmin". > > Indeed, said company did even SELL the interface for about $ 40 US, > until they went out of business about 2 yrs ago (?) > > But before they went out of business they made their software freely > available - there's also a support forum for that software at: > http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=178 > > What surprised me is that Garmin didn't seem to know about the project. > > So I will gather more information why Mr. Stone didn't mention said > project ... > > This supports rumours that I could find on the web about Micro$oft > swallowing the company ... after all they also support some garmin > GPS devices ;-) > > Even more interesting: FSAvionics.com (SimSystems) did even provide an > interface for X-Plane some time ago, so depending whether we will be > able to get in touch with the original developers it might be > interesting to learn about ways to revamp the interface to work with > FG. > > --------- > Boris
Any news on this, Boris? I know that Honeywell (Bendix/King) also have demo software of some of their GPS devices. Perhaps they are more willing to cooperate. -- Roy Vegard Ovesen _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
