Airbus A340 FTD (Flight Training Device) And FSUIPC Via RS232

[arshiaddd]

Hi Pete Dowson .

 

We Have a A340 Training Device Which we bought Before.    It works under Windows 98 And RS232 Port.   Can Your FSUIPC read our RS232 to send and receive data?

 

this Flight Training Device has Full OverHead panel and FCU (Glareshield) Autopilot. and etc. we want to this start working via RS232 and Interface it. 

 

we want to do this because dont want to working on converting RS232 to USB for it complicated work.

 

We Have MCDU too. can it Connect via FSUIPC?   note that all of this parts are assembled in one RS232 Port (All of the Cockpit parts : from MCDU to Autopilot and Buttons . switches and etc...

 

we want to set the buttons and etc in your FSUIPC Like that we do with keyboard or usb to set action and parameters. 

 

thanks a lot ... best regards. waiting for your answer .

[Pete Dowson]

We Have a A340 Training Device Which we bought Before.    It works under Windows 98 And RS232 Port.   Can Your FSUIPC read our RS232 to send and receive data?

 

Only if you write a driver to do it. FSUIPC is not a hardware driver. The only "hardware" it recognises at all is the Windows joystick API. You'll need a program to handle the data transmission and reception on your COM port and read/write FSUIPC offsets accordingly.

 

You can write in whatever language you like, it is irrelevant to FSUIPC. You could even se the Lua plug-in facilities in FSUIPC to write it -- it has a COM library with functions for serial and USB ports.

 

We Have MCDU too. can it Connect via FSUIPC?

 

 

No. FSUIPC has no facilities for output data unless you write a program to do it. FSUIPC provides the interface into FS data, reading and writing, for programs which wish to do so, whether drivers for hardware or other software on the same or (via WideFS) difference Networked PCs.

 

Sorry, but you do appear to be under a complete misapprehension of what FSUIPC actually is and does.

 

Pete