Need testers for 737 systems simulator software

[metamarty]

Firstly thank-you for your response, I understand this was not programmed for X_Plane, but I would enjoy the challenge of making it work, and appreciate any help.

I wonder if the A/P irregularities are the problem of X_Plane which has a notorious issue with it/s OEM A/P. I wonder if these anamloys would exist while using the x737 A/P?

I am using the x737 with either FreeFD/XPUIPC or vasFMC for my Glass Cockpit, but would enjoy your software more form what I have read.

Could you elaborate on your above post? As I understand from reading it, I could build the database using MSFS, and then transfer that whole file with your program, and possibly use it with X_Plane?

Prosim contains its own autopilot, so it does activate the stock autopilot systems in the simulator. Prosim controls both the aileron input and the elevator trim. These channels are responsible for the flight behavior. As a start, the next version of prosim will contain a tuning parameter for the aileron. I would be interested to hear if changing this value will make the aircraft fly better in X-Plane. It should be possible to have it fly OK.

[metamarty]

Hello Marty, I'm trying to use the script to the MCP and EFIS OC but I can not work. I followed all the steps of the manual, but still failed.

You can help me? Any one?

Hello,

First of all, can you verify that both the components show up in the SIOC window? Then, can you check that they are given the correct index in the sioc.ini file? The first attached image is an example of a correctly configured MCP and EFIS (index for efis = 1). The second image shows you an example of the components not being properly configured (no indices visible)

[sgaert]

Hello Marty,

i read this Thread since some month.
Tomorrow i whant to start to write my FSBUS software for your Software, at the moment i miss one information.
How can i controll the CDU key´s over FSUIPC?
Do you have an offset with a value list?

Stefan

[metamarty]

Hello Marty,

i read this Thread since some month.
Tomorrow i whant to start to write my FSBUS software for your Software, at the moment i miss one information.
How can i controll the CDU key´s over FSUIPC?
Do you have an offset with a value list?

Stefan

Hello,

Currently there is no direct FSUIPC control for the CDU. You can however emulate this by using a SIOC script and configuring the CDU to use SIOC. I will be adding better support for input for the CDU later.

[mvc340]

Dear friends



actually i have all my overhead finished but i´m not able to make the displays of pressurization and electric working



i have 2 displays cards.

Is it necesary to add ome lines to sioc.ini?

how can i test it?

when i use controlador.exe adn i select all on, all the digits pop up, but i would like to knop how can i pop on one by one.



in the other side, i would like to know how to interface with prosim.

Prosim has not implemented yet the presurization but yes the electric panel but i don´t know how to program it



For the presurizations, does anyone know how to make a counter for landing altitude??



any idea?



Miguel

[DaveC3]

Marty

I have tried the TUNING with X-plane. I may be doing something wrong but I do not see any difference in autopilot performance if I use a value of 10, 100 or 500. I still get wild oscillations. I am running ProSim on the machine running X-plane. SIOC, display, cdu and MCP on a remote computer. Watching the flight director there seems to be no Null area at all, if it get off center a tiny bit the plane makes wild banks.

Thanks
Dave

[Nick1150]

Hi,

I would like to make a few questions before I download prosim737

I have the following hardware in my setup:

1) 1 PC dual core with 4Gbs of RAM and 1 Nvidia 1GB dual DVI output graphic card
2) 2 DH2GO devices connected, each in one DVI output
3) 7 screens, which is 3 for the external on one DH2GO and 4 for the MIP (1 is bridged with a VGA adaptor for CP and FO screens)
4) FS2004 installed
5) FSUIPC 3 registered
6) PMDG 737/600-700 and PMDG 737/800-900 installed
7) FSlabs driver for CPflight MCP 737 EL
CPflight MCP 737 EL + dual EFIS EL + 2 x COMM + 2 NAV + 1 ADF + 1 ATC
9) 1 Cockpitsonic Dual Seat Trainer which
10) Cockpitsonic B737 driver for the Dual Seta Trainer
11) 1 CH Eclipse yoke
12) 1 Leo Bodnar card with 8 on/off, 1 on/on and 2 rottary switches connected
13) Several GAP (Greek Airport Project) scenery setups
14) REX environment registered version
15) The rest is usual as wireless mini keyboard, a mouse pad, ordinary keyboard and mouse, a second USB soundcard, but I do not think it has something to do with prosim737.

I have to repeat that all these are under one and only one PC and run without any problem giving me average 30 FPS in FS9.

During the next period I plan on investing to a motorised TQ (haven't decided yet which one) and one Engravity CDU.

Is the above setup ok for prosim737 ?

One of my main concerns is that I want to keep the ONE PC configuration for as long as it takes.

Thanks in advance guys ,

Nick

[metamarty]

Marty

I have tried the TUNING with X-plane. I may be doing something wrong but I do not see any difference in autopilot performance if I use a value of 10, 100 or 500. I still get wild oscillations. I am running ProSim on the machine running X-plane. SIOC, display, cdu and MCP on a remote computer. Watching the flight director there seems to be no Null area at all, if it get off center a tiny bit the plane makes wild banks.

Thanks
Dave

Sorry for the delay in answering to this message. I currently do not have the ability to test anything with X-plane. The only recommendation I can give is to lower the airleron tuning if the banking is excessive, but I cannot promise that this will help, since X-Plane is an entirely different simulator with different control mechanics.

[metamarty]

Hi,

I would like to make a few questions before I download prosim737

I have the following hardware in my setup:

1) 1 PC dual core with 4Gbs of RAM and 1 Nvidia 1GB dual DVI output graphic card
2) 2 DH2GO devices connected, each in one DVI output
3) 7 screens, which is 3 for the external on one DH2GO and 4 for the MIP (1 is bridged with a VGA adaptor for CP and FO screens)
4) FS2004 installed
5) FSUIPC 3 registered
6) PMDG 737/600-700 and PMDG 737/800-900 installed
7) FSlabs driver for CPflight MCP 737 EL
CPflight MCP 737 EL + dual EFIS EL + 2 x COMM + 2 NAV + 1 ADF + 1 ATC
9) 1 Cockpitsonic Dual Seat Trainer which
10) Cockpitsonic B737 driver for the Dual Seta Trainer
11) 1 CH Eclipse yoke
12) 1 Leo Bodnar card with 8 on/off, 1 on/on and 2 rottary switches connected
13) Several GAP (Greek Airport Project) scenery setups
14) REX environment registered version
15) The rest is usual as wireless mini keyboard, a mouse pad, ordinary keyboard and mouse, a second USB soundcard, but I do not think it has something to do with prosim737.

I have to repeat that all these are under one and only one PC and run without any problem giving me average 30 FPS in FS9.

During the next period I plan on investing to a motorised TQ (haven't decided yet which one) and one Engravity CDU.

Is the above setup ok for prosim737 ?

One of my main concerns is that I want to keep the ONE PC configuration for as long as it takes.

Thanks in advance guys ,

Nick

All of your hardware is supported. In theory you can run everything on one computer. I also do this for testing, but for real use I would not recommend it. The display programs that generate your PFD and ND screens are best run on separate computers so they do not tax your FS machine. I don't exactly know why it is important for you to run everything on one computer, but for the price of one motorised throttle unit, you could buy 5 fully loaded computers that can run the display software. We are using small lightweight shuttle PC's, and once the software has been installed, the only thing that we need to do is press the power button to start it up, and press the power button again to shut it down. As an extra bonus, you can let one of these extra PC's generate the GPWS sounds, so they are not mixed with the engine sounds that FS produces. An average shuttle PC is the size of a shoebox and should go for about $500 (with windows 7 license).

What I would recommend is to simply download the Prosim package and try it out. It is just a bunch of zipfiles, so it does not install itself and does not change your machine in any way. You can simply try it out and remove the folder to delete everything.

[capetonian]

and a pic from this evening with the latest build (4.11.2010) of Prosim running.

Not a lot of change on the surface but still a few minor things....

Flightsim Weekend in the Aviodrome in Lelystad was bad for me I picked up a COMMS radio and an FMC for in our aerie. As soon as the FMC is integrated I'll take4 some pics of it, in the meanwhile hwere is a shot of the pedestal with working radios. We still have to get a second COMM radio and 2 ADF radios, .. then we'll be smoking.



and a shot of the panel with pedestal after a quick test flight from Schiphol to Tegel. It makes a heck of a difference not having to change frequencies with a mouse



Excellent work Marty.