mrjohn

Hi John, Our Link Trainer project is progressing well and I have MSFS available for testing, I especially want to know if I can derive aircraft attitude (pitch, bank, heading) and latitude/longitude using FSUIPC7. May I have a trial key please? John

Hi John I have no knowledge of C and even less of .Net but I may have discovered a way forward with a friend who has been using FSUIPC and Delphi for several years. Thanks for your advice John

Hi John, I trust Peter is enjoying his retirement. Lazarus is "Lazarus is a Delphi compatible cross-platform IDE for Rapid Application Development. " I am trying to use the Delpi files from the FSUIPC SDK in which several files are named FPCxxx etc. The conversion to Lazarus files is not going well so I downloaded and installed Delphi and although the UIPCHello example in the SDK does compile under Delphi it gives me an error "IPC request contains bad data". What I want to do is extract data from the FSUIPC 'offsets' to move our replica Link Trainer in accordance of the Flight Simulator. I will look at the Paul Henty's API, thank you. John

Hi Peter I have now set up a development PC with MS Flight Simulator X and I have downloaded the SDK, the 'Hello' example works and I have tried to convert FPC files to Lazarus using the Lazarus tools. But I have a problem in FPCUser in the Var declaration of the IPC Client Stuff m_atom :atom; The error reported by Lazarus is 'Identifier not found "atom"'

Thank you for the quick response. John

I am working on a project to build a replica full functioning Link Trainer (WWII era blind flying pilot training). It is a form of simulator with 3 axis of motion. The 'pilot' will operate MSFS in the usual way The trainer movement will be by stepper motors and the general principle is that the physical trainer follows the virtual model which is in MSFS. My concept is that I will read attitude (heading, bank and pitch) data from the registers in FSUIPC and my program will convert the required movement to GCode and pass that to a GRBL device and so to move the trainer. The question I have relates to input to my program (which I will write in Lazarus/Free Pascal) when the sensor devices are HID devices (Arduino Leonardo) on USB. But I expect I will have problems with my USB connection conflicting with FSUIPC and MSFS. Of course there will be no problem if by chance FSUIPC and read data from sensors, data which is not used by MSFS but will be available for my program via register access. The data I need to read is the positions of the physical axises. Do you have any comments please? John