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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hello all,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I would say newbie here but Ive been hanging around
on this list for years 6-7-8 ish dunno. Just watching the digest now and again
dont think Ive posted anything since leaving Wichita over 5 years ago.
Anyway to come up to speed I used to work on avionics actually avionics test
systems. After the aircraft ind crash for a insturment company with a
vertical managment structure and a vertical family tree too I think 15 people
worked there 12 of them were managers and all related. Ive been working in
electronics all my life and that is the only job I truely hated to no end it
pained me to get up in the morning. Lastly part time for a
sim components company lots of good ideas but never went anywhere, finally
ran away and went back to broadcast engineering. Since school I have always
been mesmorized by avionics, theres no such thing as cheap avionics some
are just better than others. So thats what landed me in the frey not so
much flying but creating some cool overengineered toys. Case in point ever seen
the backlighting on a real LCD? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Anyway in my absence Ive fallen a bit behind on
whats happening. Seems a few companies have come and gone on the interfacing
side. To me the PHCC looks promising but not sure of its status. Im a
hardware guy that can hack away at pic code but no good when it comes
actual software. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>On the topic of SW whats the masses using? MS looks
to be defunct, Xplane looks promising maybe later if things get to the pont of
laying out the $$ for something more, Ive been poking around with flightgear as
of late.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>My end result is non specific mythical plane based
on ??? that way no one can say I did it wrong. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks for letting me bend your ear Ill go back to
hiding again :)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Austin</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>