FLIGHT   SIMULATOR   STUFF. 

   My   FSX   Motion  Platform.

The Start.       A new beginning.

The Plan         Where I started.

The Boards     How I set them up.

The Wiring     How I wired it all up.

The software  Software page.         Updated June10

Photo’s            Photo’s  of the beast.

LINKS            Of interest to home motion builders

 

 The Old  FS9  Platform  (FS2004)

Basic platform configuration.

Motor and gearbox mod.s

Power supply and relay box

Main computer and coms

Control computer interface     

Softstart and speed units      

Visuals and audio

Inputs and Rotary Encoders 

View old guest book entrys

F.A.Q.’s  on the FS9 Unit  (A lot applies to my FSX platform)

 

 

   Other  FSX  Stuff    (NOT  Motion related)

FSX   Inputs        Manipulating it’s own software. 

Keyboard  Encoders.     An Interfacing method.

A Key-stroke to Mouse-click  thingy.   Sort of like Key2mouse. June 10

FSX Outputs.  Methods of getting info out of FSX         Updated June 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Present Projects.     An update of where I’m at.       New Aug 10

How I fly -Call me silly, but its fun.  Try it and you’ll love it. New Aug10

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

All the content of this site is a description of what I done ,,  Use anything at your own risk.   What worked for me ,, may-not work for you.

All my work on this site is copyright to me unless noted otherwise.

All spelling and grammar mistakes are on purpose..  ????

 
 

 

 

 

 

           UPDATE   HISTORY AND SORT OF A BLOG !!. 

 

12 Aug 10            Added a “Present Projects” page. Just to update my mates.

                            Added a “How I fly” page to help other people that I fly with online who don’t understand my “weird” flying habits.

 

1 June  10           Updated my present packages. (Not the FS9 stuff)

                            Added right click capabilities to my mouse program.

                            Added 64 bit compatibility to my Link2fs programs.

                            Corrected some “hard to read” problems with some graphic cards in my Link2fs programs.

 

22 Nov 09           Yes, I’m still alive.  There has been a lot going on with my flight simming world ,,, mainly ,,,

                           The FSX motion platform got sold about a year ago.

                            I broke my golden rule of “all my stuff is free” ,, A copy of my source code for the motion software is available

                             for NZ$250 if anyone-else wants it ….  Email me. (yes, my email address IS on this website. Look in the pix)

                             I have got plans (In my head) for a “Mark 3” platform (Rather a radical change) and

                             I have some of the hardware ,,, BUT really pondering if I should actually build it or not as there

                             are so many commercial (and hobby) options out there now, the fun of the challenge is gone.

                            After all those years of being involved with motion ,,, I actually found FLYING was still heaps

                            of fun ,,  then I got heavily into online flying ,,, Then I flew around the world ,,, now

                            I’m pinging off “All the countries of the world” ,, but all with a very different approach to normal.

                            All this with the company of some really great mates. (Thanks Guys …. You know who you are)

                            I have a lot of stuff to update this site with, but that will come later. (Summer here now) Stay tuned.

 

18 Nov 08           Updated my mouse program,,, Now the cursor returns to where it came from.

                           Added methods of extracting data from FSX.   (FSX outputs page)

                           Removed the new Guestbook. (too much trouble)

20 June 08          Rather surprised by the downloads of my Link2fs_Mouse program, so I fixed a lot of its weak points.

                            Now you can erase an entry easily, create new profiles and also the cursor “parks” itself.

19 April 08           Added descriptions of the use of the 2 “Standard.xml” files in the “FSX inputs” page. 

                            Also fixed a Firefox link problem.

15 April 08           Tidied up this page, added FSX inputs page, Keyboard encoder page, key-stroke to mouse-click page,

                            started an FSX outputs page.

18 Feb 08           Updated my software page and uploaded Link2fs_Motion_v3

14 Feb 08           Added some more to the FS9 “motors and gearbox” page on different motors.

11 Feb 08           Added to the FS9  “Motors and gearbox” a way to modify wiper motors to have the same speed in both directions.

03-Feb 08           Updated software page with the new software, updated The Plan page.

01-01-08             Uploaded some pictures. (Opened a photo’s page) (Will be slow on a dialup connection)

6 Dec 2007        Having a break from all this ,, too busy ,,,  Xmas here ,,,,, summer etc.

5 Dec 2007        Put up the wiring page and rehashed the intro page (This page)…  Updated my software page (A wee bit)

18 Nov 2007      Put up my software page. (Well, the start of it)

5 Nov 2007        Updated “The Start” page and  started guest book

 

 

 

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