[simpits-tech] New Toy for the KingAir B200 sim...

[Cris Harrison]

On 3/2/2012 11:14 PM, dabigboy at cox.net wrote:
> ---- Ray Sotkiewicz<raysot at comcast.net>  wrote:
>> ...and just picked THESE up for a song! $25/pair
>>
>> http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Sperry-ARC-Nav-Head-C-1048B-and-Head-C-1038B-/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/$(KGrHqR,!i!E8Y1GchYLBPPrRcE8Vw~~60_58.JPG
> NICE! Hummm, I think those were on my watch list! I could have sworn they went for more, maybe it was a different auction.
>
>> I've been out of simming for awhile but really getting the itch to get
>> back into my KingAir. A Kitchen remodel turned my man-cave into a
>> storage area for the new kitchen stuff..
>>
>> Last year I gutted a GoFlight 166 radio to make it fit this style radio
>> head... Should be a perfect fit....
> Hold up a minute, I bet those control heads use the ARINC 401 spec Cris and I have been dealing with.
duh hey Matt - Brain Fart or Typo  ARINC410  not ARINC401
Cris

>   Before you go putting the lesser GoFlight stuff into them, have you considered just hooking them into an Arduino (or even a joystick controller like the Leo Bodnar boards) and thus keeping the high-dollar displays and rotaries? Someone here recently (I think it was Roberto) posted a video of a similar Collins head hooking into a few LEDs to demonstrate the ARINC 401 operation....it's just a big fancy switch, even on the digital units it appears all the display stuff happens entirely within the head itself.
>
> Any pics of the King Air?
>
> Matt
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