[simpits-tech] SWMBO of the year candidate

[Jim Sturcbecher]

You might also want to have a look at what we are doing at 
www.sim-instruments.com
We have the facility to add non-simulator-supported additional subsystems
as well as full cascading-failure capabilities as per the real aircraft.

The instruments look good too. ;-)

Jim.

At 19-6-03 23:05, you wrote:
>On Thursday 19 June 2003 07:48 am, you wrote:
><snip>
> >
> > I've decided to build a generic advanced bizjet/commuter cockpit with all
> > glass except the backups (assuming XPlane can fail a main alt. but leave
> > the backup alone). Suppose I'll have to get some Simkits gauges for the
> > backups.
>
>         Ya know, I don't think X-Plane does backups etc although you 
> might be able
>to fail the electrical system and hence disable the glass stuff but keep
>vacumn and pitot/static instruments (including your backups, assuming they
>are not electric).
>         OTOH, if you use UDP or the plug-in API, you could hook into 
> variables that
>are not affected by system failures (which you would probably need to do
>anyway, like using pitch/roll values for driving the AI) to drive your
>physical instruments, then just use X-Plane's built-in failures which would
>fail its default on-screen instruments (your glass stuff).
>
>         -Matt Bailey
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