Perhaps you are familiar with this problem? The resistance with which the push levers can be moved has decreased over timeis not the same on both sidesdoes not meet your expectations. There is a simple solution to this problem. In this tutorial, we w...

Anyone who wants to experience their A320 home cockpit as realistically as possible knows the following: you see a lot, hear a lot – but the real feeling is missing. This is exactly where the SimHaptic tool comes in. It brings movement to the simulat...

The good thing about a flight simulator is that it requires very little maintenance. Nevertheless, you should clean it regularly. But you know how it is: you often procrastinate, even though it doesn't take long at all. ;-) A cloth will quickly prove...

 Displaying the views of the outside world is often a tricky business, especially in dual-seat cockpits. The main problem is that the captain (CPT) and first officer (FO) have a slightly different perspective of the screen, even though they are ...

My name is Manuel and I am an aviation enthusiast, in life I am an Air Traffic Controller for the Italian Agency in charge of flight assistance. I'm trying to reproduce, at home and in my spare time, the cockpit of an A320 using X-Plane 11, some inst...

Why you should make backups Imagine you've spent days installing your flight simulation computer. Wouldn't it be a shame if an update ruined everything? Or you want to change a hardware component on your computer, which is sometimes associated with t...

We are always happy to report on smart solutions from our customers. In today's case, Captain Tango has developed an interesting DIY solution for dimmable floor lighting. The premium version of our Sidebase already has a light outlet for the Floor Li...

Today we want to introduce you to a really cool project that Jean from DLR has implemented for his in-house training programme. It is supposed to give the possibility to communicate with the simulated air traffic control from the cockpit. For this pu...

We often receive questions about which software we recommend and which is compatible with our hardware. The answer depends on various factors, which we would like to point out here. Hardware Environment ProSimA320 JeeHellFMGSFlyByWire (FBW)FlightSimL...

In flight simulation, the environment is usually transmitted via a screen or TV monitors. This creates a physical effect. What is straight for one pilot is crooked for another. The pilot steers the aircraft in a dead straight line on the taxiway and ...

During computer maintenance and when we want to try something out, we usually have our projectors switched off to save power and wear and tear. However, since switching our visual system to the new projectors, we have had an annoying problem. If the ...

Warping is the most demanding part of the conversion in terms of software. We use Immersive Designer Pro for planning with our customers because it is easy to calculate various scenarios in advance. This software is usually too expensive and too diff...

New day. Firstly, we prepare the installation of the projectors. To do this, we first fit the projector holders to the projectors. Then the first projector is mounted. One thing we can say in advance. The overhead work left us with sore muscles the n...

The preparations have been finalised. We have bought three new projectors. Optoma with 4K resolution. You have to realise that we have a very special installation situation in Bottrop. Like many others, we have space problems in the showroom. That's ...

Initial situation Installed ProSimADIRS are alignedArtificial horizon is not active (red markers) Solution Please make the appropriate settings in ProSimSystem | Combined config:

In a closed cockpit, the air can get a bit stuffy. Especially when several pilots are working in it for a long time with strenuous approach training. VIER IM POTT offers a suitable product for this. But we thought that the topic is also interesting f...

We made ourselves comfortable and will now start with the software installation. We have run through the installation process of Prepar3D (v3), Skalarki Profiler (Version 5), ProSimA320 (Version 1.03 latest beta) and FSUIPC4. One note if you have missed that: you will need a paid version of FSUIPC4 to run ProSimA320.

First we start with setup of the Skalarki Profiler. This is rather easy as the profiler software is delivered already with the correct matching of hardware button with the Prosim software.

If you have successfully installed Skalarki drivers (see last article) you will find the profiler like this. One hint: Profiler software starts minimzed. So search for it in the desktop tray.

We stop the SDK Mode. P & P Hardware shows YES for all components we have (hey - for sure we need the refuel panel some day.... :-)

Despite of the mandatory software you need to run a Premium A320 Flight Simulator there is a couple of additional software you can use to increase realism and flight experience. In this article we list some ideas for additional software you might like. This list is based on our personal experience without claim of completeness.

Scenery and Airports

Orbx is a great source to improve your simulator visuals accros the entire globe. In other words. Orbx is more or less essential for every simulator. In addition you will find mamy add-on airports to improve your local scenery. We personally like the fact that all software comes with one central management software (Orbx Central) which makes installation and maintenance very easy.
https://orbxdirect.com/

Simmarket is a very big market place to find additional software. You can buy add-ons from different vendors in one central store. We personally like that you have all serial numbers and downloads in one single place.
https://secure.simmarket.com/

Weather

Hifisimtech provides a software called Active Sky P3D. This add-on allows you to inject real weather into your simulator environment so that you can always fly under the current weather conditions. It also provides historical weather so you can recall interesting weather conditions any time.
https://hifisimtech.com/downloads/#ASP3D

Due to the specific wall and ceiling situation we needed to find a custom solution for our projection area. Today we assemble our construction.

Preparation of elements.

Right aft section completed.

Computers are now rack-mounted and prepared. The room is finally ready for the cockpit floor.

Cockpit floor delivered.

We decided to use the standard VIER IM POTT cockpit floor for the shooroom without any modifications.