There is a new player in the glass cockpit market. Simulation Hardware have just released their first product, a Boeing 767-300 EICAS.I was asked to be on the Beta team, and I must say that for a first effort I was blown away! I can imagine some very cool stuff coming from this small NZ based team.Check out their site at:http://www.simhardware.co.nz/ I'm sure that, like me, you will be impressed.I also have some electronic bits and pieces built by these guys, and like the EICAS are nice pieces of kit indeed. All the 7 Segment LED displays in my pit are driven by their ACCIS modules, which to my non-electronic mind are brilliant, just plug the unit in, load the software and go flying... that suits me just nicely ;-)Of course, now I need to work out how I'm gonna squeeze an EICAS into my A-4 cockpit!Seanhttp://homepages.paradise.net.nz/seang1/avatar.jpg

Sean,thanks for your information, about this new product.In my opinion, we have many choices for EICAS, PFD, ND etc, but all these periferal systems are just for pilot's information. They are not the heart of the flight.We need more choices for having a complete Autopilot and Aircraft solution. We need to have a very good and stabilized airctraft with FULL MCP & EFIS functions and also FMC, all the EICAS displays, ND, PFD, Overhead Systems etc.I have the Project Magenta, as is at the moment the only software that supports the most of that i want. I hope that one day, Enrico will have also solutions for Overhead panels and for a complete aircraft solution with flight model, air file, cfg etc.regardsEddie ArmaosAthens-Greece

Eddie,In my opinion I do not think that we have too many choices for Eicas PFD and NDs.All PFD and NDs available, either Free or payware are Glass cockpit of the last generation. A320 B 737NG B777. Horizontal layout.The major part of aircraft flying around the world do still have older systems with the classic "T" layout. A300- A310- B737/200/300/400 - B767 - B757 - ATR - DASH - MD80 - Fokker 50 70 and 100, as well as all major business jet and commuter turboprop. I recently got from Peter Cos my MD80 panel which will be used as an allrounder simulator mostly for simulating a turboprop. I did make that choice since Peter had made a custom work for a film company and still had the drawings. Originally I asked for a DASH 8 300. Nothing available or then you have to provide the precise sizes of all parts. All 3D Panel builder FDS - AGT - and all new competitors are also only focusing on horizontal Glass cockpit like the A320 and B737NG. It's a pitie. As a real world pilot who will never fly a horinzontal Glass cockpit in his life ( 52 years old) I will not loose what I learned when I made my IFR, the well known "T" Scan. A real world pilot who has a A320 cockpit at home and flies a GA analog cockpit gauge IFR for real may have some trubbles changing from the one to the other. I do ask Enrico Schiratti since a long time for that kind of product and nothing moves ahead, I asked the XP reality people to try get there EFIS working as a networkable standalone exe. Waiting for.....I am not programmer, not at all, but I cant imagine that it is so complicated to take the airbus style PFD ND, to lay it out vertically, to add sizeable analog altimeter, Anemometer, VSI and RMI and it is done. I know that there would be the solution of using standard gauges with a second copy of FS running on a second computer, but it would be too bad to invest a lot of money to ger serious harware and fly them with unprecise gauges which are all not moving smoothly enough.RegardRoger

>In my opinion I do not think that we have too many choices for>Eicas PFD and NDs.I agree here, the Sim Hardware 767 EICAS is (I think) the first which is pitched at the 767/757 community. Nice to see something which is not a 737 :)>All PFD and NDs available, either Free or payware are Glass>cockpit of the last generation. A320 B 737NG B777. Horizontal>layout.Again, I'm with you on this one. I prefer the T, and to me the 767 panel looks damn sexy ;-) >The major part of aircraft flying around the world do still>have older systems with the classic "T" layout. A300- A310->B737/200/300/400 - B767 - B757 - ATR - DASH - MD80 - Fokker 50>70 and 100, as well as all major business jet and commuter>turboprop. ....and this is why that will be my prefered layout for my "generic airliner" cockpit. I have a Beech Queenair cockpit which is to become an airliner of sorts.Talking to the Sim Hardware guys the other day, they have plans for a 767 PFD and ND, and I'm trying to talk them into a couple of non-767 bits as well :) I'd love to see a glass turbo-prop EICAS Sean

Hi Eddy>In my opinion, we have many choices for EICAS, PFD, ND etc,>but all these periferal systems are just for pilot's>information. They are not the heart of the flight.Have you seen www.systemsim.co.uk? We are planning to release the complete system that you descibed plus much much more.Anyways back to the CDU monitor wiring.

>Have you seen www.systemsim.co.uk? We are planning to release>the complete system that you descibed plus much much more.Hey that's pretty damn cool!>Anyways back to the CDU monitor wiring.Good luck ;-)Sean.http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/seang1/avatar.jpg

Also, you may be interested in our glass cockpit software coming next year. www.flightdecktechnology.com It's 777 style but written by a commercial pilot with aspirations for avionics simulations for many aircraft types in the future.Chris

Why always focus on that damned TV horizontal layout. Furthermore I do not find the choice clever from a marketing point of view since there are too much competitors out there making that kind of cockpit. Focus right now in a T glass cockpit and you will get a lot of customer. I ma sure.RegardsRoger