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Hi All, New to FSX (and sims for that matter), is there a realistic EC145 add-on that has "working" overhead panel, gauges, switches, gps, autopilot and controls? I'd like to do everything from start-ups, takeoff, emergency procedures, instrument approaches, landing and shutdown. Is there such an animal out there?

I am trying to challenge myself in this... I've already watched a few videos on doing this, but, when on the overhead panel, trying to turn on ground power, the button is just blank with no sign on it... Just plain blank... Here's the steps... I turned on battery, then, put standby pwr to auto... And then turned on all of the bus ties and the gen cont... I then tried to turn the knob under the sign saying sys fault to aux, but the sign didn't go away... I ignored it, but then, I eventually figured out I had to turn on ground power... There is no white mark appearing on the switch... It's totally unavailable... I do have parking brakes on, but found it not helpful... Please help... Anybody!!! Thanks

Hi everyone. first of all, i looked through all the pages and topics, and couldnt find the answer to my problem. i apologize if this topic has been dealt with. so i finally started building my 737 cockpit, starting with the overhead panel. since i cant get my hands on any I/O cards like BU036X, i had to resort of joystick hacking. After taking a cheap joystick apart, i realized how hard it was to solder those minute connections on the board. took me 2 days to get about 10 switches on that thing. after a successful solder, i check the connection with a multimeter before sealing the solder with silicon using a silicon gun. upon connecting the controller to the pc, i had no problem. tested the joystick with connecting toggle switches, and it worked fine. so i pulled out the cable, and started connecting the rest of the switches, with ever-growing excitement. when i was done, i plugged in the joystick, and to my disappointment, it said, USB device unrecognized. no idea what happened. my best guess was that the hear from the iron destroyed the IC or micro controller. or maybe it was the hot silicon. in either case, i looked into online solutions and found USB keyboard hacking. did more research, and it sounded like a good idea. something that might work, I had two options. to go with an old keyboard, which does not have matrix, but individual keys. the other option was, more easily available, modern USB keyboard. so i decided to go with the latter. I quickly opened up the keyboard, to discover two transparent sheets of plastic, with copper wire running through them. as per hacking guide, i took upon the painful and arduous journey to resolve the matrix. A few days later, after i had all the keys, i connected two toggle switches to the PCB with the keys "A" and "B" respectively. opened up FSX, loaded PMDG 737, went to FSUIPC, keys, created a MACRO for the Taxi Lights and Logo Lights. programmed FSUIPC for no repeats and there i had it. both switches turning on and off together and independently as intended. excited, i starting the physical construction for the overhead panel. took me a few weeks to wire everything, finding and putting in switches, even mounting the overhead panel. wiring the darn thing turned out to be pretty complex. thankfully, i kept it organized from the beginning. Next came the programming of every single switch. creating MACROS all the way. upon testing the switches one by one, they all seemed to work as intended. but thats when i hit a rock. when i turn on 3 switches on the same circuit, the switches wont turn out. scratching my head, i opened word, and tried the same combination of switches with a keyboard and realized that the keys "KCD" cannot be pressed together. apparently i need a better keyboard for that. some "N" type keyboard. even that doesnt allow more than 12 keys to be pressed down at once. ive been researching this for a few days now. and have come back with a blank. here are a few solutions i can think of: 1. using relays and capacitors for momentary key presses. (im no engineer. so no idea how to read schematics or go about it) 2. maybe use an older keyboard? the ones that did not have matrix. i dont know how many key presses they allow. 3. go back to using a joystick/controller and be careful with the soldering. 4. maybe FSUIPC has a solution? the advance user guide is french to me. 5. off the shelf I/O cards. something that is not delivered in my country. so kinda pointless. 6 maybe a keyboard emulator software that allows momentary key press Any help would be appreciated. ive spent a zillion hours on this thing. i dont want to give up. Especially when i'm so close. Joystick hack Work in progress

Hello Colleagues, I had a strange issue with the fonts on the attitude panel fonts - see http://www.b737.org.uk/pressurisation.htm for what I mean. The fonts displayed was the same fontset as http://forum.avsim.net/topic/459433-pmdg-ngx-737-900ngx-heading-numbers/ but only in the presurisation panel. The fix however was the same, copy the fonts over from the PMDG folder to the Windows\fonts folder and reboot. Voila Jude

Hi Guys, Has any of you used a touchscreen for the overhead panel in P3D? It's just that with FSX I had it working just fine…. I could get the "right click" on knobs and switches by holding my finger on it for a couple of seconds. I finally had time to install my freshly acquired P3D on the new Sabertooth Z97 Mark1 Intel box CPU Intel 1150 i7-4790K Ci7 Box(4,00GHz) Noctua NH15 cooler 16 Gb Memorie corsair vengeance cmy16gx3m2a1866c9 ddr3 16gb(2x8gb) 1866mhz E-VGA - G-Force GTX 980 Touchscreen on HDMI all others on Display / DVI and I am only getting the left click function….. same touchscreen same OS… don't gets it…….sounds like different drivers have been installed … ? ?……….. Or could the overhead panel of P3D have a different script ? Any thought ? ? Cheers guys

Hi Bryan, this is by no means an imperative, but would be a nice little addition to the list of voice commands to the FO. About 50% of my flights are commenced with engines already up & running. Was wondering if you could provide additional FO voice commands for the NAV & BEACON lights please. ALSO: Any chance we can have voice commands for the FO to manipulate the EFIS on either side? (Capt or FO) eg: voice command -> "EFIS MAP" - "EFIS PLN" - "EFIS WPT ON/OFF" - "EFIS DATA ON/OFF" etc Also, any chance we can command the FO to manipulate the lower display? eg: "display FCTL" - "display HYD" - "display FUEL" etc Thanks again Bryan!