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[brynjames]

I've flown Westozy's PMDG 737 using the CPFlight MCP and all functions work perfectly. As for annunciator states, that's another story, but you could program this in SIOC after some serious systems analysis.

Lucky man - wish I lived near Westozy!

The CPFlight MCP requires one of those expensive (but not nearly as expensive as Magenta) little software drivers from PMDG or the other company (forgot the name) doesn't it? (and they don't do one for OpenCockpits).

Kiek and IanG made the point that you can only use SIOC to get values out if you know where to look for them - and PMDG have not released an SDK so it can't at present be done. Unlike the good old Level D 767 of course, which has an SDK. Edit: I have just seen a reference to GlovePie on the Open Cockpits site which might overcome the problem, but I didn't understand it completely so I am not sure.

A great pity that the developers don't provide more information for builders.

I hope Nicola will be able to find a combination of hardware and software which will do what is required at a reasonable cost.
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Bryn

[ian@737ng.co.uk]

hi chaps.......
first, OC MCP......it DOES WORK with the PMDG737. i've had one here for testing for future developments.. you can get the SIOC script from the OC website. but it is 737 specific. i have no idea whether it is going to work with the 747 or MD-11. but i suspect that it may not be too long before scripts appear if enough people take a shine to a paticular model.
what i can't get my head around is this and forgive me for being 'to the point'. most developers are in business to make money. it is a business. but they loose sight of what is happening out here in the real world or become paranoid about the security of their programs.
a lot of cockpit builders are going down the road of building a 737 (i know, i'm guilty as well), hence the multitude of panels, hardware, throttle quadrants, MCP's,and interface boards which are available for that aircraft. but, we have no aircraft we can 'hook into' without using this instrumentation package, that aircraft systems package, their input/output system or devising some personal way to get it working.
we are faced with a dilemma. it's happening to me. what's wrong with us?
don't you think it's time developers actually gave us what we want instead of releasing something in a blaze of glory which only partly addresses our requirement.
i suspect the search for the holy grail will continue for some time )
happy new year chaps..... ian