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Apr 8^th, 2007 at 11:20pm

hsvfan Offline
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Hi all

I have a couple of questions relating to home built cockpits
that I am sure some knowledgeable people here can answer.

Firstly.
If you are using separate flightsim avionics, gauges and radios etc, can one high end computer handle running flightsim and cope with the separate avionics or ,do you get one computer to run the flightsim visuals and one to run the external gauges and avionics etc… and link the computers together

Secondly
I have found one wed site, Simkits.com that produce instruments, are there any other companies that make instruments for flightsim

Cheers

Rhys

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Reply #1 - Apr 8^th, 2007 at 11:33pm

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hsv,

Hi and welcome to the "Homebuild Cockpits Forum."

Answering your first question...........

MOST people run external gauge programs on separate networked PC's to keep the "load" off of the main flight sim PC. Unless you have a bear of a machine, you likely need all the horsepower you can get to deal with just running fs2004 or (particularly) FSX.

It IS possible to share some instruments.... on a second monitor from a single PC.... or even MORE monitors with multiple graphics cards ........... but few find success with that approach.

The good news is that the PCs to run most add on panels / gauges are pretty minimal. My PFD (along with some FSXpand gauges are running on a 100 mbit switched network on a 300MHX Pentium II.... and I get acceptable performance. Most of the time "junker" PCs are easy to find free or almost free.

Hope this helps get you started on the road to insanity (along with the rst of us). Wink

best,

....................john

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Reply #2 - Apr 9^th, 2007 at 1:27am

hsvfan Offline
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Thanks for the quick reply
Just on my second question,I have found one wed site, Simkits.com that produce instruments, are there any other companies that make instruments for flightsim

Cheers

Rhys
New Zealand

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Reply #3 - Apr 9^th, 2007 at 10:21am

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Yes, seagull and flightillusion are also on the market.

see on my site for the url

scroll down to hardware/instruments

http://home.wanadoo.nl/norbert.bosch/links.html

regards

Norbert

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