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Pete Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Of the other information, you can set Pitch Roll Yaw (Heading) and Altitude, but not airspeed, turn rate, G's or AofA -- all those are "effects" of simulation, not "causes", if you see what I mean. The most important thing that appears to be missing in your data is position -- Latitude and Longitude! How will you determine that? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interesting. It sounds like you would be in slew mode (sort of). The lat long, could easily be captured by one of the two GPS units that are installed in the plane. I wasn't planning on showing any "out the window" stuff, just wanted some kind of instrumentation for the GIB so I don't have to constantly tell them that they are climbing, descending, etc... I guess, to clarify, I want to take the Dynon output data and have it dumped onto the lap top screen in some fashion. By the way, I'm not sure how many times per second the data is sent but it's a bunch. Thanks for the reply. :) -Frank

Greetings, I have a Dynon EFIS and came across an interesting feature which prompted the following idea. (of course, I have no clue how to make it work.) I own a VariEze which is a tandem seat aircraft with no instruments in the back seat. I have an idea to that would give my GIB something to look at besides the back of my head. My Dynon Electronic Flight Instrument System sends a constant output via RS232 in the form of a text string with a carrage return. The string sends all of the measured flight data such as air speed, altitude, pitch, bank etc etc etc. I want to use a laptop running Flight Simulator to receive this data via the Com port and have the sim parse out the data and display the proper flight data as if in say,, "Demo mode" Get the idea? Anyone know of a way for a novice programmer to make this all happen? Just in case anyone has a fire under their butt to help me out. As an example, the following is what one line of serial data looks like: 00082119+058-00541300000+9141+011-01+15001310 It's broken down as: Hr Min Sec Sec_frac Pitch Roll Yaw Airspeed Altitude Turn Rate Lateral G’s Vertical G’s AOA 00 08 21 19 +058 -0054 130 0000 +9141 +011 -01 +15 00 Thanks for the help. :) - Frank