Markus

Cross the pond – VATSIM online event

Tomorrow, Saturday 30th, the yearly Cross the Pond Eastbound will take place on the VATSIM network.

Our route will be from KBOS (Boston) to LOWW (Vienna). The exact route will be published tomorrow morning.

We will also activate the Cockpit Cam for this event, but as it is the first event running with this cam, expect some delays or malfunctions. If it won’t work, we need to disable it again.

You can track our flight in this map. 2 friends will join me in the cockpit during our flight. The flight time is estimated with around 8 hours.

UPDATE: Cockpit Cam Site is setup and will be active – powered by PushTV from VACC-Austria

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New Pictures

Today I have added some new pictures into the gallery.

FMC Progress Page:

High Quality pictures can be found here.

Upcoming Online Flights

During the next weekend the following VATSIM event will occur:

During this event I will make some onfline flight to be prepared for the next event one week later –> Cross the pond 2010

Facts about Finally Austria 2010:
• over 25 Controllers will meet in Vienna to staff the ATC station
• Vienna Schwechat (LOWW) and Innsbruck Kranebitten (LOWI) will be fully staffed! More Airports depending on availability
• hence, the whole Austrian airspace will be available at full service on the weekend from the 23rd until the 24th of October 2010
• find charts, infos and scenarios from LOWW and/or LOWI at http://www.vacc-austria.org

ATC:
Saturday, 23rd of October 2010 from 09.00am to 09.00pm UTC
Sunday, 24th of October 2010 from 08.00am to 04.00pm UTC

Also new pictures will be uploaded during the evening form the cockpit.

New release 1.14 from SimAvionics

Last week a new release was published from Mark.

Version 1.14 is now the newest one. You can download it via the SimAvionics Website.

There are new features built in and some bugs are resolved. But also some old bugs were not resolved (GPS arrivials for Frankfurt,…)

The whole changelog can be found also on the SimAvionics website here.

Overhead structure finished

Today my wife was fabulous and helped me with the black fabric that will cover the overhead structure.

The fabric was mounted with a velcro so it can be removed when needed to access the controller cards behind.

Thanks again my honey 🙂

Next steps will be to build the Gear Leveler and during winter maybe the throttle.

Yoke painted

Today I have finished painting the Yoke.

SELCAL function added

Today I have added also a SELCAL function to the Overhead. During atlantic crossings the pilot will be called from ATC via SELCAL and the pilot will respond via radio than.

Click more to see the SIOC code.

Here is a video with the SELCAL function working.

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Duct Press Gauge Video

As promised here the video from the working duct press gauge with the new servo motors built in.

The video from the vertical speed gauge is not ready yet, because the SIOC code need to be adopted to work correct with SimAvionics.
As soon as it is finished I will publish it here.

Gauge improvement

Three days ago I have received the gauges (duct press and vertical speed) from Opencockpits.

As the built in servo motors are quite loud on holding position, I have changed them to another type. Within 3 hours all 3 servos were replaced and ready to be built in. During the weekend I want to implement the gauges in the overhead panel. A video will follow once they are working.

System Overview

Today I have published a first version of the cockpit system overview. The PDF file will show you each of the used PCs with the attached modules to it. The file can be found under “downloads” from the menue.

Also today I have reworked the wiring for the LEDs and preperation for the taxtil fabric for the overhead was done.

On Saturday I was flying 3 legs online with a friend during the VATSIM 24hours Franfurt online night. Great feeling 🙂

During next week, hopefully, my 2 gauges for vertical speed and duct press will arrive from spain 🙂 The wiring for those is already completed.