FLYIT General Aviation Panel
By Muhammad Chariri (31 October 2000)
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months ago I added to my flight control CH Yoke and pedals with a Flyit
General Aviation Control Panel. I use this control panel for PC
dedicated for FS2000 and FS98 with configuration at present of
PIII-800E, ASUS P3B-F , 512 MB Ram , 15.3 GB HDD, Elsa Gladiac
GeForce2 GTS 64 MB DDRAM, SB Live plus FPS 2500 speakers and 21" Sony
G500.
Specification
The Flyit General Aviation Control Panel package consists of the control
panel, monitor platform, Epic game card, Win98 and cable to connect
panel to Epic game card.
Measurements:
22" deep x 26" wide x 17" high (approximately) desktop space required
for panel and 14" - 21" monitor (does not include space required for
control yoke
Supported Sims:
FS4 to FS2000, ProPilot, IFT-Pro, X-Plane 3 and 3.1, FU-II
Game ports are (3) on the back of the panel (original game port on
the back of CPU should be disabled).
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Epic card on ISA Slot
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Installation
Before installation, I did a computer desk modification by lowering the
keyboard latch to give enough space for yoke movement and added a
piece of board to place the mouse.
After installing the Epic card as usual, start the computer and run
Add New Hardware wizard with installation disk and follow the
installation manual.
Features
This panel has 6 rocker arm switches, 24 push button switches, 4
switches, 17 rotary switches, gear lever, flaps lever, throttle
quadrant (throttle, prop and mixture control) and start key.
Details of its features:
1. Ignition switch with start and key
2. Rocker switch magneto select
3. Aircraft lighting rocker switches for beacon, landing lights, instrument and navigation
4. Push button switches to select 8 window views, panel and map view
5. Push button switches for parking brake, left and right brake
6. Rotary DG switch / auto pilot heading bug set
7. Altimeter rotary switch
8. OBS1 and OBS2 rotary switch
9. Fuel tank select, rocker switch
10. Landing gear lever with wheel
11. Flaps lever switch
12. Pause push button switch
13. Com radio rotary switch for Com1 and Com2 and switch for IDENT
14. Nav1 and Nav2 rotary switch for whole and fractional digits plus IDENT switch
15. ADF rotary switches (3)
16. Push button to select NAV2 and ADF2
17. Four rotary switch for transponder
18. Trim up/down switch
19. 9 push buttons for auto pilot on/off,LVL,ATT,HDG,ALT,NAV,LOC,APR and BC
20. Throttle quadrant for throttle, prop and mixture control
21. Carburetor / thrust reverser push button
22. Reset current situation push button
23. Calibration push button for joystick
24. Airspeed push button to toggle DG/HDG set
25. Zoom in and Zoom out push button
Layout
Activating The Panel
1. Replace the Fltsim98.cfg and FS2000.cfg with the created cfg in EPIC folder
2. Run calibration and add Epic entries in Game Controller Applet (Control Panel) until 16 lines of Epic Programmable systems entries shown
3. Load Epic98 (before or after FS98/FS2000 loading), if necessary repeat several time until message ... verified and loaded shown. Enabled joystick in Option Window of FS98/FS2000
How Does It Work?
I am very pleased with this control panel especially for FS2000 and
FS98, with some notes as follows:
1. Star key only usable for default Cessna of FS98 and works on some aircraft in FS2000 with similar configuration such as Captain Slug Piper Arrow, OV-10 Bronco and B58 Abacus Private Pilots.
2. Thrust Reverser doesn't work
3. This panel is not usable for Fly! by Terminal Reality; once EPIC98 is loaded Fly! won't work
4. Flightsims that can be loaded in the same platform with Epic game card are ProPilot 98 and 99, CFS, AS2, 747 PS 1.2 and 1.3, X-Plane all versions, Jeppesen Flite Pro, USAF but only yoke and pedals will work with ProPilot98, yoke only with X-Plane 5.21 to 5.40 while for the other sims is only mouse applicable. Unfortunately I was unable to try FUII and FUIII due to the loading problem with VGA card
Product Information
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Manufacturer:
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FLYIT Simulators, a division of
Simpkins Design Group Inc.,
Carlsbad, California, USA
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Distributor:
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D & E Simulators, San Diego, California, USA
http://www.galaxymall.com/education/desim/
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Price:
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$995 U.S.
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Package:
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Flyit installation instructions
Flyin General Aviation Control Panel
Flyit monitor tray
4 Phillips screws
2 ignition keys
1 Epic game card
PS2 keyboard adapter
1 keyboard Y cable
2 Flyit installation disks
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Muhammad Chariri
charindo@indosat.net.id
