Last week I ordered a few I/O cards from Opencockpits. Two days ago, on march 26, the shipment arrived. In this post I’ll describe the basic I/O cards from Opencockpits and how they work together, as I discover that myself š
read more...A while ago I looked into upgrading my desktop PC, which I use primarily for flight simming. The old i5-6600 was getting too slow and the mainboard didn’t have much room for expansion. There was only one ‘fast’ SATA connector and it was a very basic board.
read more...Past week I’ve been look at some real Boeing hardware. I kind of got inspired by two real B732/733 cockpits on YouTube and I read bits here and there about modifying and gutting real hardware. This afternoon I took the plunge and ordered two radios on eBay!
read more...I recently switched from an Nvidia card (GTX780Ti 3GB) to an AMD card (RX580 8GB). The improvement I expected wasn’t really happening. X-Plane still uses OpenGL and AMD’s OpenGL support kind of sucks. I really hope Vulkan will improve this. I also don’t want to pay double the price for an Nvidia card with 8 GB, so I’ll ride it out until X-Plane supports Vulkan.
read more...Today I’ve been to FSWeekend with a friend. It was nice to see what other people have built and which products will be released in the near future, like the Honeycomb Throttle Quadrant.
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