Altimeter Helper

Altimeter Helper is a python plug-in that will help with setting your altimeter.

It can be configured to a key or joystick button, so at a quick press of a key the local altitude will be set or if above 18,000ft the standard will be set
and the set altitude will be displayed.

CH PRO PEDALS and Linux X-Plane

The CH Pro Pedals feel like very well constructed pedals and come with no drivers meaning they are USB HID and should work out of the box.

CH PRO PEDALS

they come with with two black plastic "plugs" to lock the sliding motion allowing them to use be used as petrol / brake controls with ease.
and while they don't weigh a lot they don't slide around on my carpet flooring.

Carenado B1900 HD Series on Linux

The Beechcraft 1900 is a 19-passenger, pressurised twin-engine turboprop fixed-wing aircraft. It was designed, and is primarily used, as a regional airliner. It is also used as a freight aircraft, corporate transport, and by the United States military and other governments. The aircraft is designed to carry passengers in all weather conditions from airports with relatively short runways. It is capable of flying in excess of 600 miles (970 km). In terms of the number of aircraft built and its continued use by many passenger airlines and other users, it is one of the most popular 19-passenger airliners in history (Wikipedia)

Performance
Cruise speed: 280 knots (518 km/h, 322 mph) at 20,000 ft (6,100 m) : Range: 707 km with 19 passenger payload (439 mi) : Ferry range: 2,306 km (1,432 mi) : Service ceiling: 25,000 ft (7,620 m) : Rate of climb: 2,615 ft/min (797 m/min)

View from the left wing

FS Economy Beginners guide

quick video I made about using FSE, only a basic tutorial as I don't know the advance stuff my self yet.

Building Open Broadcast Software on Fedora 21

Open Broadcast Software is a piece of software that lets users create video or stream to services like twitch, more information can be found at  https://obsproject.com/index

Linux interface showing web-cam and a browser

VFR Photo scenery

Photo scenery can make a visually delicious flight

VFR Photo Scenery

even though the install software is for Windows & Mac the textures work perfectly under Gnu/Linux

Use Real Terra Haze to improve clouds and colour.

Read Terra Haze "is an add-on script for FlyWithLua is based on the findings of user PASCAL_LSGC over at AVSIM about the raleigh scattering controls."

Script your simulator with Lua

You want to use the power of a C/C++ plugin, but it should be easy as BASIC?

Lua is a programming language, even if you can't program the default install adds a few useful tools and I shall be adding pre-made scripts soon.

FlyWithLua

Eclipse 550 personal jet

is an awesome free-ware personal jet. it features all the the things you would expect from a pay-ware personal jet

• Virtual 3D cockpit
• "Glass cockpit" functional
• Customised sounds - Engine, door, call-out, and much more.
  Ground Power Unit
• 10 assorted liveries
• Flight management Computer (FMC)

and it is:

• 64bit compatible
• Windows / Mac / Linux compatible

it can be downloaded from x-plane.org

I'm still learning to fly this aeroplane but it is fun to fly and I will post a video on what I've learnt soon as I have a graphics card upgrade.

buying then flying!

After getting bored of the demo's time limit I decided to take the plunge and buy the simulator, I went for the steam version just because of ease of updating and "it just works", instant access to the simulator once downloaded and part of the steam community

New X-Plane Pilot needed, no experience necessary

This Blog is going to be my exploits of going from a total flight simulator noob to... well where ever it may lead.

When  I started a few month ago I'd never played/Flown a aircraft simulator, well once upon  a time on a ZX Spectrum but that is totally a different kettle of fish.


My system is a Debian Jessie, amd64 rig with
KDE Desktop Environment
Nvidia gtx 550 ti
16 GB of RAM
250GB HDD Root/System
2TB HDD Home.


First thing I did was set up my Debian system to use the NVIDIA drivers
as per the Debian/Nvidia Wiki as X-Plane can't/won't run with Intel graphics No matter how good they are under linux rebooted, Then  visit www.x-plane.org and downloaded the demo and signed up for the news letter (and claim my 5 free extra aircraft, the new letter also gave me tips and tricks for using X-Plane).

After downloading a few GB of game data for the area surrounding the demo air field, it is a simple task of running the executable in the download folder.