Am 03.04.2012 18:02, schrieb Gene Buckle: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Martin Spott wrote: > >> Stuart Buchanan wrote: >> >>> How's the cockpit project going BTW? >> >> Having a sponsor to pay the transport would be cool ;-) >> >> Aside from that, we're looking for a couple of small (8-12" range), >> bright and preferrably identical colour TFT displays for the panel, >> because the mechanics of the yoke prevent installing bigger ones. >> > Martin, if you were to pick up a copy of Mike Powell's book "Building > Simulated Aircraft Instruments", you could fill that whole panel pretty > cheaply, including a servo based artificial horizon. I would be happy to > supply you with any custom metal parts that they need.
Our fgpanel instruments can look realistic but nothing's better than the real thing... I have a couple of real instruments that are no longer airworthy and I am evaluating how to drive them from FlightGear. The VOR and ADF indicators are simple as they are driven electrically and creating the synchro signals should be doable with a microcontroller. The gyro and pressure instruments require some mechanical work and Mike Powell's website just induced the nice idea of aircoils into my brain. If he only had an e-Book for download! 17$ for overseas S&H adds nearly 50% to the price of the book :-( Torsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
