June 15, 201510 yr Author +1 for GoFlight MCP-Pro with GIT ... no programming required for PMDG 777 and 737. I waited for GoFlights 30% sales and purchased a couple of grand worth of product, MCP-Pro being one of them. I did a profile for Aerosoft Airbus A3xx series for GIT includes MCP-Pro ... I make have a more recent one I need to upload, but my older one you can find here: http://www.pollypotsoftware.org.uk/downloads.html ... the forums also have a wealth of info and Steve (developer of GIT) is very supportive and provides regular updates to GIT. Cheers, Rob. When does go flight typically have that 30% sale? Christmas time? Anthony Neumann
June 15, 201510 yr They're having a 20% sale now (Father's Day). But yeah I think 30% sale is around Xmas time. Cheers, Rob.
June 15, 201510 yr Author Thanks Rob, just noticed it. I think I might go with the Goflight one. Are the knobs flimsy or pretty sturdy, trying to watch some youtube videos to see the quality. Anthony Neumann
June 15, 201510 yr Are the knobs flimsy or pretty sturdy They're not real world knobs ... they work and feel "ok" ... they pull off and push on. They have detents. Cheers, Rob
June 16, 201510 yr Imho you will enjoy the GF mcp. However it does not come with nightlighting as Opencockpits and CpFlight mcp have.... Like I wrote before the best and most real one is the CpFlight mcp Pro, but it is also the most expensive. Just look at the buttons . The nightlighting on the txt is different then the one from the switches. It has a banking switch and the AT switch automatically switches off at touchdown. Myself I have the CpFlight mcp EL , imho the best bang for the buck, but one day I hope to own the Pro version.... 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
June 16, 201510 yr Since last Christmas I am a very happy owner of the GoFlight MCP Pro.I fly the PMDG 737NGX, and am surprised every time I add an aircraft to the hangar, that I can use the MCP with it, even on simple freeware aircraft.I am loving this mcp so much, that I don't understand how I have been able to do without it for so long.My next purchases will be the GoFlight EFIS, and one or two GF-166 modules for N AV and COM radios A day without laughter, is a day without living.
June 16, 201510 yr Author Went with the GoFlight MCP Pro, thanks for all your insight guys! Anthony Neumann
June 18, 201510 yr Boy, it would be nice to change out the pots on mine. No jumping at all? Gregg, Please forgive the bad choice of words. When I mentioned serviceable, I was suggesting they serve my needs. VRI makes a cost effective product and probably didn't use the same quality hardware as, say, CPFlight. That said, I have had the unit for over 2 years and the knobs are working without issue. Not real smooth, but not jumping around. I believe version II uses better pots. Furthermore, if I'm not mistaken (take with a grain of salt...as I may be) the firmware has been improved to produce smoother performance of knobs. Too bad the VRI forum is dead. You may have gotten a response regarding upgrading pots. In any event, if improved firmware equalled improved rotary performance, new pots might not help. You could email VRI tech support and check for firmare/software update for version I and also the possibility of upgrading pots. Good luck! Regards, Graham Derreck CYMM
June 18, 201510 yr Please forgive the bad choice of words. When I mentioned serviceable, I was suggesting they serve my needs. VRI makes a cost effective product and probably didn't use the same quality hardware as, say, CPFlight. That said, I have had the unit for over 2 years and the knobs are working without issue. Not real smooth, but not jumping around.I believe version II uses better pots. Furthermore, if I'm not mistaken (take with a grain of salt...as I may be) the firmware has been improved to produce smoother performance of knobs.Too bad the VRI forum is dead. You may have gotten a response regarding upgrading pots. In any event, if improved firmware equalled improved rotary performance, new pots might not help. You could email VRI tech support and check for firmare/software update for version I and also the possibility of upgrading pots. Thanks Graham. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right about the knobs and firmware. I was watching the knobs as buttons recently, looking at the commands it was sending to FSUIPC and it was pretty bad. I don't think the knobs are granular enough and the firmware for them seems close to buggy. Every so often I look for some hardware to replace it but, so far, I continue to live with it. I've even thought about just mapping the buttons to the 'slow left' and slow right' commands and controlling them manually via LUA. Pretty sure that would work (at least for the MCP part) but I haven't spent much time working on the algorithm and been busy just flying. I like using LINDA since I can code the commands through LUA directly which is why I was asking if any of the hardware above uses it...I suppose that if it works for multiple aircraft out of the box then I'd be okay with it. I only fly the NGX about 10% of my flying and I need it to work for the Flight1 Mustang, Eaglesoft Citation X and some others as well (Eaglesoft is completely non-standard and everything has to be mapped either with mouse macros or keystrokes. Pretty unusual.). Gregg Gregg Seipp "A good landing is when you can walk away from the airplane. A great landing is when you can reuse it." i9 64GB RAM, GTX-5090
June 19, 201510 yr Thanks Graham Hey Gregg, I may have picked you up wrong, but I do know that if you try to program VRI through FSUIPC, you will get inconsistent results. No bugs, just the nature of the beast. LINDA does not officially support version I, but I do believe it is functional; although that is using older version of LINDA. You may wish to check over in the LINDA forum. Andrew (Scotflieger) is very helpful. Regards, Graham Derreck CYMM
June 19, 201510 yr Hey Gregg, I may have picked you up wrong, but I do know that if you try to program VRI through FSUIPC, you will get inconsistent results. No bugs, just the nature of the beast. LINDA does not officially support version I, but I do believe it is functional; although that is using older version of LINDA. You may wish to check over in the LINDA forum. Andrew (Scotflieger) is very helpful. Thanks Graham, Yeah, I've asked them before. It works as well on the latest version of LINDA. If the Combo II is better than Combo I I'll at least consider it for a replacement. Gregg Seipp "A good landing is when you can walk away from the airplane. A great landing is when you can reuse it." i9 64GB RAM, GTX-5090
June 19, 201510 yr Imho you will enjoy the GF mcp. However it does not come with nightlighting as Opencockpits and CpFlight mcp have.... Like I wrote before the best and most real one is the CpFlight mcp Pro, but it is also the most expensive. Just look at the buttons . The nightlighting on the txt is different then the one from the switches. It has a banking switch and the AT switch automatically switches off at touchdown. Myself I have the CpFlight mcp EL , imho the best bang for the buck, but one day I hope to own the Pro version.... Just curious, how are the 2 cpflight units different, other than price and appearance? Regards, Todd Harrell Computer: i7 3770k @ 4.6 GHz, 16 GB DDR3 RAM, GTX 1070 GPU, 750W PSU, 250 GB SSD (Win 7), 500 GB SSD (P3D), 2 x 1TB HDD, 28-inch Viewsonic 1080p monitor Sim: P3Dv3
June 19, 201510 yr Take a look at the CPFlight site : http://www.cpflight.com/sito/prodotti.asp 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
June 19, 201510 yr Thank you, sir. Regards, Todd Harrell Computer: i7 3770k @ 4.6 GHz, 16 GB DDR3 RAM, GTX 1070 GPU, 750W PSU, 250 GB SSD (Win 7), 500 GB SSD (P3D), 2 x 1TB HDD, 28-inch Viewsonic 1080p monitor Sim: P3Dv3
June 21, 201510 yr Has anyone either experienced or heard anything about this MCP from Virtual Avionics? It looks very nice and appears to be complete. Not bad for $550 USD. It also looks like they have an EFIS control panel too. http://www.virtualavionics.com.br/produto.php?PRO_RowID=7 Cheers, Todd Regards, Todd Harrell Computer: i7 3770k @ 4.6 GHz, 16 GB DDR3 RAM, GTX 1070 GPU, 750W PSU, 250 GB SSD (Win 7), 500 GB SSD (P3D), 2 x 1TB HDD, 28-inch Viewsonic 1080p monitor Sim: P3Dv3
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