[Flightgear-devel] 747 Project Page update

[John W. <ca...@mm...>]

Looking over the FG-747 project page this weekend...

Most of the photos are dated and need updating. Hopefully I'll find some
time this month to do that and update the text as well.  One new area is
completion of the throttle quadrant. Not a bad piece of work, if I must
say.  A big accomplishment was converting an older ISA based A/D board
to a USB interface and single 8-channel A/D chip. (see pic)   Every time
we went to a show I lived with dread that the older PC with the ISA
slots would die and finding a replacement motherboard would be nye on
impossible.  Still need a PCI parallel port capability to handle
interrupts so until PCI and USB are overtaken interfacing to hardware
should be less of a problem.  Curt posted some new pics of the
throttles, take a peek....

Now the transition of Fg to OSG dovetails nicely with my 2007 plans to
move everthing inside a cockpit shell and build a fully collimated
wrap-around FOV and overhead panels.

Thanks to Curt for taking the time and effort to post the new pics.

Regards
John W.