The Airbus flight deck has two loudspeakers. They are mounted on the sidestick console chassis facing the Captain and First Officer sidesticks. Their purpose is to alert the pilot of system alarms and to route audio from the Audio Control Panel (ACP). If you look closely at the wiring of the speaker, there are four … Continue reading
Ben from Airline2Sim has launched their A320 Cadet Training Program. With 6 modules and 27 episodes, the training program is extensive. If you are familiar with Ben’s other Airline2Sim offerings, they are professionally produced with exceptional value. Not all the videos are available at the time of this writing, but Airline2Sim should be releasing them … Continue reading
Happy holidays – we look forward to further development and features for our Flight Simulators in 2021! ProSimA320 In November ProSim-AR launched a preview release of their avionics program compatible with the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator software. The release has significant bugs – expect an iterative improvement process by the ProSim development team going forward. … Continue reading
The Airbus aircraft is fly-by-wire – this system replaces conventional manual flight controls with an electronic interface. Electronic function is responsible for an increasingly large portion of in-flight functions. As an explainer on electrical systems put it, in fact, “uninterrupted electrical power is essential to safe flight in a modern airplane.” From small luxuries to … Continue reading
ProSimA320 1.42 is now available and is compatible with MSFS2020. The preview release has some obvious bugs but this should be expected for an initial release. To ensure compatibility Legacy flight modelling must be selected in the MSFS2020 menu options. ProSimA320 must be configured to connect with Simconnect and not FSUIPC. Continue reading
ProSim 1.42 will be released tomorrow with native support for MSFS 2020. The release is a preview according to Hanne (CEO, ProSim) and there are some shortcomings: • Lighting. Due to issues in the MSFS2020 platform, specific lighting controls are not functioning. We worked around this by controlling lights the old-fashioned way, but this does … Continue reading
A fun experiment. Commercial Level-D simulators facilitate the use of a collimated display because they allow for an image to project into infinity providing the illusion of depth and perspective. To achieve the effect, mylar is wrapped around a parabolic structure and a vacuum is used to shape the mirror. To experience the effect a … Continue reading
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Sound can provide important sensory cues in a flight deck environment. The avionics software ProSimA320 provides satisfactory aircraft exterior sounds, but the interior cockpit sounds is much to be desired. Ambience environmental sounds of the cockpit, such as contractors, gyroscopes, static inverters and subtle alert tones are missing from the suite. A look at the … Continue reading
A significant part of the simulator is in the process of being rewired – there was an assumption avionics equipment would function correctly with ground side switching. Unfortunately with this setup the avionics equipment decided to display an erratic behaviour, even in an unpowered state. Why Ground Side Switching? The main instrument panel korry annunciators … Continue reading
