[simpits-tech] Big simpits maintenance coming up....

[Kenneth Drycksback]

Keep up the good work!

I’m a long time lurker as they say. My flight sim dream goes back to the 80’s sometime when I had my first computer, a ZX Spectrum and I had this super simple flight sim on it. Simple as in top half of the screen was blue and bottom half was green and not a lot else :)  There were probably a couple instruments too but I don’t remember. Later on I had Falcon on the Amiga. Anyway, my dream has always been to make my own flight simulator, including the software. So these days I have my own developed F-16 sim I work on from time to time. It’s still nowhere near done but it is flyable at least. I have developed both the flight model and the control system based on available data and documents. Searching for relatively modern diagrams on the flight control system was an interesting task and I’m very happy with what I have so far.

The long term dream is to one day build a pit for it also and all the electronics that goes in it. Well, that’s the dream anyway,

Ken


> On Aug 20, 2015, at 6:34 PM, snar5 at yahoo.com wrote:
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> I don't add much but I do recall when the name was being tossed around as to what to register the domain as.. and simpits.org was born. I think I mentioned pitbuilder but was rejected because it sounded like we might like to build barbecue pits or the like...time flies.
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> On Thursday, August 20, 2015 10:29 AM, Mark Collins <mgcollins at comcast.net> wrote:
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> And you've done a mighty fine fob with it. I don't do very much with regards to simming anymore but it's always fascinating to see what you guys do, the technical work you accomplished and just the general advancements in the industry. Gene, I'm really waiting to see how those VR  glasses that you are testing work out.  that to me is really the next big step. That might actually get me back into simming.
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> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
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> 
> geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
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> The machine that runs simpits.org, a number of your blogs and the mailing 
> list is getting on at 6+ years old.  I've got the new hardware stood up 
> and I'll be migrating things over to the new machine as time permits.
> 
> This means that simpits.org services will be up and down periodically as I 
> migrate things over to the new server - those of you that have blogs 
> hosted here - PLEASE back them up!  In order for me to migrate those blogs 
> to the new version of WordPress, you need to also email me the admin 
> password so I can get those migrated properly.  If you don't, I'll have to 
> change the password myself so I can migrate the site.
> 
> Thanks folks!
> 
> BTW, simpits.org was registered on February 9th, 2000.  Can you believe 
> it's been over 15 years? :)
> 
> g.

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