Windows 8 tests looking good

As always concerned when a new Operating System comes out, no exception with Windows 8. The first hardware available was a Sony Vaio Duo 11 tablet PC, and it performed very well. Connected via wireless to the simulator, the Instructor Station ran smoothly with a...

OpenGL and Project Magenta

It isn’t just the outside visuals that are impressive in a simulated cockpit, the vast majority of the time a pilot is looking at rendered instruments, flight management computer screens and synoptics. On top of being fully functional, they have to be smooth and...

File Sharing with Vista and Windows 7

Much in the spirit of the post about the User Account Control for Win7, file sharing in mixed networks can also become a headache. This process will make the network a little less secure but it works well because a password isn’t used and everyone is allowed access....

Throttle Hardware and Cutoff Switches

In the past few days I have been working on trying to reproduce a problem that had been reported, when during engine startup the N2 value was doing strange back and forth movements (rising and dropping) when the engine start was being initiated for either engine. This...