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Ben_Chiu Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: "From Mel: Because you can!" 10-02-02, 18:30z  We received the following from Tarmack: (You guys with VPC OLR 2.1 will be able to click the link to see the picture below.) =================================================== If you care to count carefully there are 15 monitors in this picture working in synch with various software and hardware products. The most difficult monitor to see is the one that is just to the right of the GoFlight hardware console on the very right side of the screen. Since 12 of these monitors are TFT in nature...and since that particular monitor is a TFT...the extreme angle of the camera shot is precluding the normal brightness of that Sony monitor. The other monito that just barely makes the "scene" is on the far left...there are 3 monitors producing a left side view extended from the main forward view just above the primary PFD display. The outside views of FS2002 are produced by 3 computers each running a Matrox Parhelia video card...two of those computers are running in dualhead mode and the main server computer is running in triplehead mode. Those 3 monitors are the right side of the instrument glareshield/MCP panel...the center view of that same panel and then the left view that shows the window division from the main window to the forward left window from the Capts' perspective. That left view is just above the FSFlightMax radar display. Just below the outside views is the 747 MCP hardware from Aerosoft Australia....as it AWAITS the purchase and delivery of the EICAS and EFIS units. Hi Andrew!!! Grin. The interior portion of this cockpit has...from left to right....a "look down" view of FS2002 and the Jeppessen SimChart program. Next in line to the right is the FSFlightMax radar display...and then the next three monitors have the PM instruments....and finally the 4th display has the PM QuickMap Display. Above the QuickMap display is the RazorsEdge AirPlan software running via WideFS....and of course the smallest display is the Rob Howard CDU hardware. You can also see the GoFlight DOUBLE rack of hardware....what you can't see is the GoFlight UPPER rack that gives the landing light switches. All 3 FS2002 computers with their 7 monitors are running in Virtual cockpit view...each computer has its own joystick to enable a quick alignment of horizons and virtual instrument panel matchups. Once the cockpit computer/sytems are up and running.......the mouse, the mice, the meeses...NEVER get touched!! Everything is done by GoFlight, and or the PFC throttle quadrant and Jetliner yoke.....not to mention the Smith's CDU hardware interface. In the past week, since this system got the extra computer and monitors....I have run multiple flights of 12 hours or more on transpacific crossings to Tokyo from Detroit and New York with no lockups or shutdowns at any time. The OS is WinXP and I have the very latest drivers of ALL of your software and hardware. I am certain that I have exceeded $15,000.00 in expense for this setup.....but the MAJOR expense is always the computers and monitors and NOT the products that drive them. I cannot thank each of the developers out there that make this all possible enough. Regards, Mel Ott Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      From Mel: Because you can!    Ben_Chiu       10-02-02              RE: From Mel: Because you can!    Tarmack       10-02-02       1            RE: From Mel: Because you can!    James       10-02-02       2            RE: From Mel: Because you can!    Ben_Chiu       10-02-02       4                 RE: From Mel: Because you can!    vgbaron       10-03-02       5            RE: From Mel: Because you can!    Mike_Greenwood       10-04-02       8                 RE: From Mel: Because you can!    James       10-04-02       9                 RE: From Mel: Because you can!    TD       10-05-02       10         RE: From Mel: Because you can!    TD       10-02-02       3         RE: From Mel: Because you can!    Simtech       10-03-02       6            RE: From Mel: Because you can!    Tarmack       10-03-02       7

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