I sure hope the hype lives up to it! As it stands right now, it seems like it will! I received an email today from Revolution Sim Products, the guys who I’m buying my 737 TQ from.

Man, this email had 11 new things they are doing to make their product even more rock solid. Changing certain parts to metal frame work, better switches, using different parts to make things hold better. And then, included a series of new photos!

What a great company, to keep their customers up to date about the development and continued improvement of their product! I really, really like them so far, and can’t wait to get my TQ!

My first real big piece of heavy machinery is heading to the production line! I just ordered my 737 TQ from Revolution Simproducts! These guys have been very communicative and up front from the start, and they have said they are upgrading my TQ to have manual trim for a Christmas gift to me! That is awsome!

Also, shipping is expensive (like $650 dollars) and when I asked them why it’s so high, they not only emailed me back saying well, it’s got a long trip, it’s packed in a huge wooden box with metal frames and weights a ton, they also sent me photos of the shipping box. Wow! They also mentioned if they don’t ship it like this, I’ll get 2 TQ’s instead of one.. broken. And that cost includes insurance which is really the smart thing to do here.

Anyhow, I’m excited to get this on the production line! They said lots going on so probably about 7 weeks to get it done. In the mean time, here are some photos!

And their video!

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Holy cow, did one little job turn into a day of work!

So, this morning I decided I’d investigate why my Fire Warning light on my glare wasn’t coming on. I fiddled with the TSR settings, checked off a couple boxes and then well nothing worked. After checking them on, suddenly, my Fire Warning light worked. Go figure. My guess, a bad config file or setting in one and unchecking/rechecking those boxes resolved it.

Of course, since TSR is the one doing the logic, you can only initiate failures (that show up on real hardware) within TSR. FSX’s failures light like the software panels in FSX, but won’t interact with pmsystems or TSR it seems. Ohwell. Just means if I want to automatically do failures, I have to buy pmInstructor. Who’d of thought?

OK, I guess that was too easy for me. Because then I started on all these minor issues that I have just put aside, until today. I wanted to have better overspeed and stall sounds. I got those working properly in pmsounds.

Then, I wanted to finally find something for the tire scrubber sound and braking sound to be used with the autobrake pro of the TSR software. (Through pmsounds) I found some sounds, and now have those working, cool!

After that I found better cockpit sounds, better apu starter sounds, and a whole slew of other 737 sounds. I updated those in pmsounds, killer!

Finally, I had never addressed the issue of flaps within the PFD software. (That runs as an EICAS for my middle screen) If I set flaps 5, it would show 1 on the eicas. If I set flaps 15, it would show 5. So, I went into the PFD, the EICAS and the FO PFD software and set the aircraft type to CDU.

I then went into the CDUType file (that is OUTSIDE netdir…) and set in all my flap settings. The flap pos and rel pos should be the same. IE 1 and 1, 5 and 5, 15 and 15, 30 and 30, etc.

So FINALLY… if I call Flaps 15, it shows 15 on the EICAS.

Holy cow, really cool to get all those little things out of the way and working, finally!

These guys are great! I’ve been having an email conversation with them about their product. Due to my limitations of the sim, and also cost, I’ve decided to get a non-motorized unit. I really don’t want to make it more complex and have more stuff go wrong.

They let me know the non-motorized unit is backlit capable for an additional cost. I said lets do that. And on top of that, they are adding in manual trim for me at their cost! That is so cool! These guys ROCK!!

Very communicative, up front and willing to do things for their customers. That is exactly why I’m going to buy their TQ and not Throttletek’s!

http://www.revolution-simproducts.com

I have most of my default FSX sound turned off, and use pmsounds. Today I added in an overspeed and a stall warning into pmsounds. Here is what you do.

1. Open pmsounds

2. Click Edit SoundList

3. Add these two lines to the bottom of the soundlist file:

overspeed, 036D, .0, 1, CYC
stall, 036C, .0, 1, CYC

4. Close the file and save.

5. Click Edit INI File

6. At the bottom of the file add in these lines. Note there is a space before type, disabled and volume.

File=overspeed.wav
Type=main
Disabled=Off
Volume=default

File=stall.wav
Type=main
Disabled=Off
Volume=default

7. Close the file and save.

8. Download these two files. You should right click these, chose save as, and put them into your pmsounds/sounds folder.

Stall Warning
Overspeed

9. Quit PM Sounds, start up FS9/FSX, launch PMSounds and you should be good to go!