Airbus Interfacing

Some Airbus Interfacing Notes: Thrust Lever The potentiometer value for the individual thrust levers 0-16383 are written to 0x5914 WORD (2 bytes) Throttle 1 0x5916 WORD (2 bytes) Throttle 2 0x5918 WORD (2 bytes) Throttle 3 0x591A WORD (2 bytes) Throttle 4 Thrust Gate...

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...

CDU and MCDU Full Screen operation

The FMCs (Boeing-Type CDU and Airbus-Type MCDU) work in two modes, OpenGL and pure text mode. The rendition in OpenGL mode is more realistic and recommended. The non-OpenGL mode is only there for backwards compatibility with older systems, avoid using it if you can....