No computer or monitor wanted to start. It appeared that the battery in my remote control for the switches just had enough power for the led. I “borrowed” a battery from another remote and that solved this problem. The next…
Renewed start
The last message about the B738 flight simulator is well over a year ago and I must confess that I have hardly flown this cockpit in that time. The last flights had to be aborted due to bad power connections…
First experiences
Last night Ed has made a visit. Not only to look at the developments with several projects, but mainly to fly with X-Plane. After a quick look at the x737 we made a flight with the Baron B58 from LOWI…
x737 Project
The x737 Project (EADT) has a Boeing 737-800 flight model complete with a VC cockpit free for download. More than 270 different liveries are available. This airplane still needs quit some time to fly with before can be decided is…
Arduino
Arduino boards are small microcontrollers with which you can control almost anything. They are pretty cheap (depending of the type from €25,00 to €45,00) and if you buy them in China it is even much cheaper (€5,00 to €12,00). Depending…
X-Plane 11
Early april 2017 X-Plane 11 was delivered. I installed it to see what it looked like. Again only the scenery of Europe was installed and I made a number of my default flights. I have to say that it looks…
X-Plane 10
On the FS-Weekend in Lelystad (early november 2016) I saw a presentation of X-Plane 11 in the cnema of Aviodrome. According to the presenters this was the default X-Plane 11 scenery. I thought it looked marvelous so I decided to…
X-Plane?
The majority of the flight simmers uses a version based on the original from Microsoft. These are FS9, FSX, FSX-SE and Prepar3D which I use myself. The FSX versions (FSX-SE possibly excepted) are (very) ancient products and Prepar3D is (fortunately)…
Still Alive and Kicking
No messages for about ten months (fortunately) doesn’t mean that there is no more building and flying, on the contrary. Building and flying the Boeing 737 cockpit has indeed grinded to a halt, but this is also due to the…
VFR training
And now something completely different. I applied for a training with Flight Academy. I will start with a so called Preflight training based on VFR in a Cessna 172.