The Airbus aircraft has built-in multiple redundancy and alert systems in case of a catastrophic failure. The Flight Warning Computers (FWC) presents failures to the pilots in the upper and lower ECAM displays and also the glare annunciators. Three annunciators – Master Warning, Master Caution, Autoland are available on each pilots side (six in total). … Continue reading
2021 has been an eventful year (pandemic aside); there has been significant software and hardware developments and a few surprise announcements. What will 2022 bring? On the software front MSFS continues to advance in development with patches and scenery updates. Several scenery developers have announced cessation of Prepar3D support and development to focus primarily on … Continue reading
Cockpit Concept have now released their LAN based Printer Interface Board. The board connects by AIRINC 740, 744 or 744A and is compatible with existing OEM aircraft printers. B747 functionality with Aerowinx and A320 Jeehell FMGS is confirmed. 3rd party avionics software are able to write (ASCII) to Cockpit Connect to output to the printer. … Continue reading
Cockpit Concept has now released their DCDU interface board for interfacing with OEM equipment. The equipment is compatible with the CPDLC AOC client. More information on the Cockpit Concept webstore. Continue reading
Cockpit Concept has now released their LAN ATC/TCAS board compatible with JeeHell, ProSimA320, ProSim737 and FlightFactor A320. The board will be appropriate for more advance simulation such as valid/fail, air/ground and test; along with fail light illumination. Alternatively the Cockpit Concept AIRINC board can also be used with the standby/on switch interfaced with a joystick … Continue reading
The latest Cockpit Concept Connect software update (1.2.4.0) expands on support for X-Plane Flight Factor-A320. In addition to OEM FCU support, the software now supports the OEM brake pressure gauge, rudder trim, voltmeter, ACP and RMPs. With the additional hardware support, Flight Factor-A320 can now be a reasonable option for flight deck builders and an … Continue reading
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
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
This is a list of the commonly used avionics and light panels supplied by the aircraft. For realistic simulation, avionics and lighting should be powered with the appropriate bus. ProSim avionics allows you to access the bus gates for switching under the Combined Config – Electric menu. Jeehell FMGS avionics allows bus gate switching in … Continue reading
Microsoft Flight Simulator will launch to much fanfare and reception. The market will shift towards the new platform leaving Prepar3D, X-Plane and Flight Simulator X in the dust. Airline companies are already enquiring on how they can licence and use MS2020 as a visual generator for their professional sims. Developers will migrate their new software … Continue reading
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