Archive for November, 2010

737 Tutorial Videos

Posted by Matt On November - 26 - 2010

Fantastic tutorial videos from Aerosoft Australlia on using various 737 systems! It covers their software but also a lot of important information for any simmer!

All Videos are here! http://www.aerosoft.com.au/home/Videos.html

An HDD vs SSD in your SimPC

Posted by Matt On November - 26 - 2010

This holiday weekend I purchased a 128 gig SSD and installed it in my SimPC. An HDD is a Hard Disk Drive, which is what stores everything on your computer. An SSD is basically like a thumb or flash drive you buy to store things on.

But in this case, an SSD is way faster and slowly but surely will start to replace HDDs in computers all together. They are crazy expensive but since they have no moving parts, and are memory, they are way fast.

So I installed one, used Norton Ghost 15 to clone the HDD to the SSD

Watch the video, you will not believe the results! Below the video I describe how I did it.

Click below to read how I did it:

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New Engravity MCP and EFIS’ Ordered!

Posted by Matt On November - 9 - 2010

Placed my order for the new MCP and EFIS’s (both Captain and FO) and Robert said they should be here in a couple weeks!

Here’s a video another user made of theirs:

The Flight Sim Toolbar

Posted by Matt On November - 8 - 2010

Check this out! It’s a Sim Toolbar for your web browser! Very cool!

http://flightsimtoolbar.com/

Works with Safari, Firefox, IE. (For both PC And Mac!)

Note: This Toolbar / App is part of the Conduit Network. In Safari, it’s not part of the Safari 5 Extensions. If you want to uninstall this (At least, on the Mac) go to Applications / Toolbars /  and you will find the uninstaller there.

Hop 1 EKCH EGLL

Posted by Matt On November - 6 - 2010

How to test your new Digital Camera

Posted by Matt On November - 6 - 2010

Fellow simmer and all around great guy @Claus1974 bought a new Canon Lxus 210 Digital Camera. He found the perfect way to test the quality and I must say, it’s a great choice! Haha!

The iPad Instructor Station!

Posted by Matt On November - 4 - 2010

The Pedestal Touchscreen LCD is in!

Posted by Matt On November - 3 - 2010

In my quest to make the pedestal of my simulator more useful, I finally got the pedestal reworked and the 2nd 10.4″ touchscreen LCD in and working! Here you can see it running VoxATC, FS2Crew Voice Commander and the FSHost Client to the My737Sim Multiplayer Server! This is a real treat as it gets all this information off my main FSX display and into a nice, readable section in the cockpit!

About Me

Captain Matt Riggins
My737Sim Airlines N32405
My737Sim Server ID: Capt Riggins

For a history of my sim experiences, click here!

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