Author: Markus

Finally Austria Event – 3 flights in Austria

In this mixed time-lapse video you can review our 2 pilots operations during the finally Austria 2022 event.

  • The first flight took us from Split in Croatia to Vienna in Austria, the hub from the local carrier Austrian
  • The second flight was conducted from Ljubljana in Slovenia to Salzburg in Austria
  • The third flight was flown locally from Graz to Vienna

Please excuse the behavior of the aircraft once flown manually, we discovered a spiking axis assignment on the First Officer Yoke and therefore it sadly interfered with the controls. After the flights we disabled this and the aircraft was flown smoothly.

migration to FS2020

During the last weeks I started working on the FS2020 setup in the flightdeck. First I was very curious about it, but slowly it was getting more positive. Not all functions from the P3Dv5 setup are working at the moment and new versions of SIOC, etc needed to be implemented, but its on a good way.

So I set the road to start the migration process slowly. GSX is still missing and is a valuable keypoint in the the immersion of the whole usage of the sim.

Twitch Streams

As I started lately flying again in the flightdeck I also cought up to the streaming “hype”. As some of you already know my setup, I think I can inspire some of those who are thinking of a homecockpit building project.

If you are interested, jump over in the chat when I am flying. On the sidebar to your right, there is the actual status of the stream.

https://www.twitch.tv/737homecockpit

 

Dual Chronos

Years ago I have built in a small 7“ tablet to the captains Chrono side and during the replacement of the wet compass I moved the screen to the first officer side, but was never satisfied and searched for another solution. Now I found one. I purchased 2 small HDMI screens

which are now fitted in the back of the MIP

and are connected via HDMI to the machines, running now separate instances of the Chrono screens and are fully independent useable.

 

New PC setup

5 years ago I upgraded to a new PC. Now it was time again to do the same

the new machine consists of:

  • i5-10600KF
  • 32GB RAM
  • Gigabyte Z490 Gaming X Motherboard
  • 480GB SSD for the Win10 OS
  • 1TB WD Blue NVMe SSD for P3Dv5
  • GTX1080 from the old PC to upgrade in the near future to an RTX2080

The “old” PC will replace the vpilot PC and the streaming PC, if it is capable of doing both.

I also changed the other PCs around and streamlined the configuration and therefore reduced 1 machine.

Gauge updated

Finally I updated all Gauges to the perfect custom built gauges by Tom from customsimpart. They look really fine.

The Cabin Temp gauge was the most horrific to be installed. Due to my wood frame construction form the overhead a lot of wood has to be removed to fit the gauge into. It was a mess…

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Also I installed the valve gauge and the missing brake pressure gauge in the First Officer MIP. All gauges are connected to an 18 port pololu servo card and configured in ProSim.

 

And the final situation

Building a 737-800 Homecockpit [OE-LNJ]