Hi All
I am in the early stages of planning my own home built sim based on the A320, I have been researching this for about six weeks now, I have cads all drawn up and due to my good computer and networking knowledge I have worked out most of my hardware issues. My problem is this, LOW BUDGET, I looked into the AST platform www.airsimtech.com that was kindly suggested by Barry Kensett who has built his own wonderful A320 Pit (you can see it here http://www.a320sim.com/), However for the time being this software is way out of my financial reach. So I have come up with an idea after reading this http://www.avsim.com/pages/0402/pss_airbuspro/pss.html So Based on the fact that Project Airbus FD’s are very good and the model looks good I merged the PSS A320 panel with it, apart from a slight EGT over heat and a bit of rewrite to the flap config it’s a good mach. As the Avsim review stated the displays can be undocked and moved to different monitors and resized, ideal for a home cockpit build. However once I shut down Flight sim 2004 and restart everything defaults back to the original setup, this is going to be a real pain in the butt in a home built cockpit having to go through the undocking and monitor setup every time I want to fly the sim.
Has anyone tried this before and does anyone have any suggestions of how I can get around this little snag. If this problem can be sorted it would in theory be possible to run a full blown home Cockpit with one Good Spec PC with 4 monitor’s and one screen projector.
The one other problem I can’t get my head around is how to make the throttles behave like Airbus throttles i.e. the throttle gates, has anyone managed to do this.
Any ideas or input would be most welcome.
Regards Karl

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