Welcome to Francisco Sedano’s flight simulator
Author: fransedano
Welcome to my flight sim!
My goal is to build a b737 cockpit replica, with as much detail as I can on my basement. The cockpit:
- Has the same size as the real 737 cockpit
- Is based on real aircraft instruments
- Uses real boeing control columns
- Uses real boeing throttle quadrant
The simulation software is X-Plane, and I’m using 3 linux boxes, with 3 HD projectors, for front, left and right views.
For interfacing X-Plane with the aircraft control and instruments I’ve developed a plugin which exports and imports real-time events into the simulator via IOCP protocol.
These IOCP frames are sent via TCP/IP to a homebuilt controller, based off a Coldfire microcontroller, which runs a real-time OS, uC/OS.
This controller runs a series of event-based scripts, allowing you to map simulator events to HW actions in the cabin. For example, the simulator will send the landing gear position as a value between 0 and 10.000, where 0 is fully down and 10.000 is fully up. We want the cockpit light to glow RED if the landing gear is in transit, green if it’s down or off if it’s up. The script will make this conversion.
Once the controller has made all required conversion, it sends data to the instrumets via a CANBus network. This is a 2 wire differential, daisy-chain network which allows very easy connection of instruments.
Watch out this website for more details, pictures and updates and have fun (the new generation pilots are already enjoying it!!)
