Linking a proramable logic controller (PLC) to fsx

[dburrowes]

Hello,

I am new to the site and would love to get some feedback on my latest venture. I have built a fairly complex cockpit with 33 working buttons, switches and dials. These are wired to an Allen Bradley PLC and my next step would be to get the PLC to talk with FSX. I am assuming that I need to purchase FSUIPC. It seems like that will be the easy part. Any help or coments would be appreciated

[jwenting]

you will either need to talk through FSUIPC or through SimConnect.

Either will require writing custom software.

[dburrowes]

Thank You jwenting for replying. I should have been more specific when I posted my comment. I have purchased FSUICP with WideFS. I have been trying to find the answer to extract data from the Flight Simulator but no luck. So all I want to do is move 2 or three 16 bit words from the Computer housing Flight sim to the PLC. If someone could help me with even moving data from my FSX to an excel spreadsheet then I could take it from there. Any help would be appreciated.

[Pete Dowson]

I have been trying to find the answer to extract data from the Flight Simulator but no luck.

Have you downloaded the FSUIPC SDK? The answers are all there, together with exampl programs in several languages.

So all I want to do is move 2 or three 16 bit words from the Computer housing Flight sim to the PLC.

You'll have to write a program.

If someone could help me with even moving data from my FSX to an excel spreadsheet

You could write a program to do that if you have documentation for Excel file formats, but it seems a long way round. You'd still want to send it to the PLC.

Regards

Pete