Author: Markus

New CPU Cooler for Main PC

During the migration to P3Dv4, I noticed that I can overclock my i5-4690k CPU to get a little more performance out.

Therefore I had to change the CPU cooler to take the stonger temperature of the CPU off.

I decided to use a Thermalright Silver Arrow IB-Extreme cooler. Its a monster 🙂 But in Windows idle I get now around 27°C, before it was in the mid 30°C.

With overclocked to 4GHz I get around 50-55°C with Prime95 and 100° Processor performance.

Vatsim Cross the pond event 2017

On Saturday 14th October the Cross the pond event was held again. This time, as usual in the autumn Eastbound.

I was participating with a flight from Toronto to Copenhagen as OS364.

The block time was 8 hours an 30 minutes. We lost about 45 minutes on ground due to heavy traffic.

Here you can some pictures from our flight.

A timelapse vide will come later this week.

 

Captains Side – Master Caution, Fire Warning & Six Pack

I got my hands on a 2nd hand Master Caution and Fire Warning button as well as a six pack for the captains side from Opencockpits.

For those to get installed the whole captains side panel had to be replaced. It was replaced as reworked with some additional details and painted in black instead of grey.

Placement after drilling

Then it was painted in black.

Now it was time to make the connections, but sadly the LEDs from the sixpack wont show up… I checked and double checked it. No mistake. As the modules are from Opencockpits the V+ is 5V. Pokeys is only delivering 3.3V. 🙁 So I tested it with 5V directly and it was working. Now I needed a plan for a Pokeys connection.
My plan was to buy an eight relay module which are working with Pokeys – I already have one relay in place with my strobe card.

After connecting and powering on, the result looks very good and I am happy with it.

SELCAL panel

Also from hispapanels I got the dummy SELCAL panel. But I decided to make it as a functional panel.

So I made some modifications. The green LEDs came with the panel and where glued into it. To have some round push-buttons installed a whole must be drilled into the panels.

I took some 6mm buttons to be placed under the push buttons. The buttons are fitted on a small helper wooden part.

In a future release of Prosim the SELCAL panel will be enabled by the Prosim Team. It can be linked to VATSIM via the PSU (ProsimUtils) and vpilot. I will make a separate entry in the blog when it is available.

The buttons and LEDs are planned to be connected to another Pokeys Ethernet card.

The only drawback is, that the buttons are now a little higher than original, as the push-button is placed below.

Approach videos in Paro [VQPR]

The two videos below will give you an inside of the very interesting approach into the airport of Paro, located in the kingdom of Bhutan. Surrounded by mountains with a height of 13.000 feet, the airport is located at 7.300 feet height.

 

Now we will fly from the other side. Runway 33 approach is only visual following the river until the airport shows up.

 

Building a 737-800 Homecockpit [OE-LNJ]