Cessna 172RG Flight Simulator - Hardware and Software

Hardware

PC

Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2 (Chosen as it has on-board Nvidia graphics Note: no longer used)

CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz 

Graphics Card - MSI Twin Frozr GEFORCE GTX 780 OC Edition 3GB

Memory - 2 X 2GB Modules - Kingston HyperX DDR2 KHX6400D2/2G


Simkits

CCU2

Altimeter

ADF Indicator

Heading Indicator

VOR1 Indicator

VOR2 Indicator

Bank and Turn Indicator

Attitude Indicator

Airspeed Indicator

Vertical Speed Indicator

Tachometer

Fuel Indicator Left/Right

Fuel Flow Indicator

Oil Temp and Oil pressure Indicator

Suction Guage and Ammeter

WET Compass

Flaps Switch

Trim Wheel

Gear Switch

Indicator Panel

Throttle Control

Mixture Control

Propellor Pitch Control

Printed Front Panel

Flight Illusion

Force Feedback Yoke

Hand Built

Motorised Elevator Trim Control

Motorised Landing Gear Switch

Fuel Tank Switch

GPS/NAV Switch Panel

Audio Panel

Transceiver

ADF

AutoPilot

DME

Transponder

GTN740 GPS

SOFTWARE

PC Operating System


Flight Simulator Software


Add-On Software


PIC Micro-controller Firmware


PC side application software to interface to PIC based modules

Windows 7 SP1 32bit (Note: Simkits CCU2 will not work with 64bit version) 



Lockheed Martin Prepar3D Version 2.x



FSUIPC4.x by Peter Dowson

GTN750 by Flight1 Software



Built using Microchip's MPLAB IDE v8.92 in either Assembler or C

Built as a single application using Microsoft's Visual C# 2010.


The application is timer driven, with a TAB for each USB connected Radio Stack module. The TAB header shows an indication of the status of the module ie. either connected or not connected.


Debug capability is available for each device, this was used during development and can be disabled if desired.


THE ADF/AutoPilot module is shown, with a virtual representation of what is displayed on its LCD.

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