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Post by MarkH on Sept 1, 2015 19:33:12 GMT
If you have an iPad, check out RemoteFlight HD. I just bought the basic 'Cockpit HD' app and it is awesome! The radio app sounds dull until you discover it has the autopilot too - even more awesome (if I didn't already have a hardware AP, anyway)!
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Post by ScottB on Sept 3, 2015 14:34:16 GMT
I looked into that awhile back while searching for a good moving map. Very impressive. Hard to beat physical knobs and buttons though. Scott
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Post by MarkH on Sept 3, 2015 16:06:18 GMT
I looked into that awhile back while searching for a good moving map. Very impressive. Hard to beat physical knobs and buttons though. Scott I agree about the buttons and knobs but for displaying the gauges it's a much simpler option than a whole other monitor. I can use it on my current setup just by literally hanging my iPad Mini from its case in front of the fire panel! I am a bit disappointed that the gauges can't be customised like the Air Manager and Panel Builder ones can - you get some customisation but it's not really enough. For example, on the ASI you can set the red line, blue line and Vne but you can't change the overall range of the gauge. That means you're stuck with a 300kt gauge for your Piper Cub I have yet to try the add-on gauge pack, which I will need for the Twin Otter. (I'll also need another iPad!)
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Post by ScottB on Sept 4, 2015 13:21:06 GMT
I agree. For now, I still use Panel Builder but only their EFIS along with a few engine gauges because I already have the monitor in place. I also use PlanG and can run VFR Maps/Sky Vector on the monitor if I want. When I was flying from a desk, I used the wife's iPad for FSWidgets (they don't offer gauges), and I liked it. The iPad/RemoteFlight is definitely a great alternative, an instrument panel lite!
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Post by MarkH on Sept 4, 2015 14:15:16 GMT
A quick pic or two...
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Post by ScottB on Sept 5, 2015 13:11:38 GMT
Hey! That looks pretty good! Blends well.
I would still like to build some sort of "real" instrument panel. That is, actual gauges that can be manipulated by Almost Aviation style rotaries, switches, etc. Although, looking at two full instrument panels (physical and virtual) seems a bit busy to me, and removing the virtual cockpit has it's own problems with displays, Track IR, etc. (old discussion). I would like the gauges to be virtual and customizable. Panel Builder doesn't completely support A2A stuff it seems, and their instruments seem to lag with adjustment, at least when run through a network. I'm not sure what software would be best to attempt such a thing... should I ever become inspired enough to try.
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Post by MarkH on Sept 5, 2015 17:49:44 GMT
Panel Builder doesn't completely support A2A stuff it seems, and their instruments seem to lag with adjustment, at least when run through a network. I'm not sure what software would be best to attempt such a thing... should I ever become inspired enough to try. Well I have it on good authority that Air Manager will support FSUIPC in v2.2, so that should make interfacing to A2A (and Twin Otter) gauges possible. Regarding lagging, I haven't played enough with either PB or AM to know if it's a problem, although some latency is to be expected over a network. (The Remote Flight gauges have an adjustable update rate to try to balance this out and in practice they work very smoothly at an 100ms update rate (the fastest) and I hevent noticed any particualr lag. I seem to remember that the first release of PB was adjustable like this but then they removed the facility, not sure why. (P.S. I added another pic above.)
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Post by ScottB on Sept 6, 2015 15:14:09 GMT
That sim of yours looks damn good!! To me, all it really needs are side views of some sort (without track IR, or with only side-to-side maybe) and a few more gauges that can be controlled directly with rotaries. You're very, very close, in my opinion (I mean that in a good way). You already have the GPS, AP, Radios stack, etc. See, I would prefer a lighted radio stack too, even though what I have is better than none. I would streamline a lot of my useless controls/switches also. Haha, "good authority"... Air Manager, I need to watch your video again. Also, PB has a FSUIPC interface that I've never tried, I've always used simconnect since it's familiar to me. I believe you can still adjust the ms in PB but doing so causes more latency on Gmap which is also networked. Everything is a compromise. I've posted this link before as this guy has the right idea, although there is still the display limitation and virtual cockpit issue. I must have overlooked the instrument software he's using. Anyway, Remote Flight is a very nice compromise.
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Post by ScottB on Sept 6, 2015 15:26:25 GMT
Oh heck! I just noticed my ranking! You've got me pegged! I'll have to work on that!! Ha, ha!
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Post by MarkH on Sept 6, 2015 15:28:48 GMT
PB has a FSUIPC interface that I've never tried, I've always used simconnect since it's familiar to me Wow, I didn't realise PB could look at FSUIPC. I wonder if that's been there all along or if it was added after I looked at PB. I don't think Simconnect is an alternative if you want to get at Lvars - from a quick look, you have to write a Lua script that loops reading an Lvar and then writes the value into a public FSUIPC offset. Then you can edit a PB ini file and get it to link a particular gauge variable (RPM, say) to this offset instead of to the standard FSX value. Kind of fiddly but doable.
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Post by MarkH on Sept 6, 2015 16:00:03 GMT
Oh heck! I just noticed my ranking! It's good that somebody's posting! We have 94 members now but most are a bit quiet...
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Post by ScottB on Sept 7, 2015 12:51:49 GMT
Just watched your latest video and saw the Remote Flight in action. Looks like it worked great! That's about as close as you can get to real aviation. In the case of the video, I guess a fuel gauge or two on you panel would have been handy.... or on another page of that iPad... but I'm being extremely picky!
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Post by MarkH on Sept 7, 2015 17:09:06 GMT
I guess a fuel gauge or two on you panel would have been handy.... or on another page of that iPad... I'm working on that. Unfortunately RF doesn't have fuel gauges. But there are other options...
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