overhead from engravity

[KOZAKOS]

Hi,

I bought the forward panel and the aft from engravity and I don't know what type of card I must buy to be compatible with flightdeck soft.

Regards
Constantinos

[belgianguy]

Hello Constantinos,

I build my MIP with an opencockpits USB Expansion card in combination with a mastercard.
This works great .

For the overhead panel, I believe that you need 1 USB expansion card and 3 mastercards of opencockpits.
The software (sioc) needed to work with these cards, you can find for free on the website of opencockpits.

The script that you need to install in the sioc software, so you can work with Flight Deck Software, is available in the download section of the Flight Deck Software website.

I will soon start to build my overhead panel with these cards.

Best regards,
Gert.

[KOZAKOS]

Hello Gert,

My mip card is from cp flight.  Why I need 3 cards from opencockpit?


Regards
Constantinos

[belgianguy]

Hi,

Well you need so many cards for the overhead panel because every mastercard can handle 72 inputs and 45 outputs.
If I'm correct, you already need about 100 outputs to control all annunciators and about 150 inputs for all the switches so that makes 3 mastercards to connect all these controls.

Just check the sioc script from Georg that you can download here:
http://www.flightdecksoftware.com/files/ohlogic-beta04.zip
You can see how many inputs and outputs you need.

I don't know anything about the cards from CP Flight so I can't tell you more about that.

Gert.

[dvincent]

Hello Constantinos,

what you need are the break-out boards of the new generation CPFlight boards. I 'm not quit sure that all is available at this very moment. You should try to get in touch with CPFlight.

For information: info@cpflight.com