Flight1Tech

[Michael Smith]

Here is the third of five screen shots with explanations...

[Michael Smith]

This is the fourth of five screen shots...

[Michael Smith]

The fifth and final screen shot.... hope these helped.

[Michael Smith]

Here is a document from the Flight1Tech website with detailed information about simulated features!

[tcarney]

I’ve been flying with the Flight1Tech G1000 for a while now (along with the Emuteq hardware). The software is a bit pricey, but if you do any real world flying, it will more than pay for itself in time you would have spent learning the G1000 with the Hobbs meter running.

There are a few features that aren’t modeled that you can read about in their documentation, but overall, I’ve been pretty impressed with the level of detail that went into this. I would definitely recommend getting a good book to get the most out of it. I used Max Trescott’s G1000 Glass Cockpit Handbook, and found it to be an excellent resource. Going through that book, you’ll be impressed by all kinds of little details that are modeled in the Flight1 software.

I’ve had to contact Flight1 a couple times for problems I was having, and have been very impressed with their support. They got me back up and running right away in both cases (the fix both times was to send me an updated version of their network connect software that fixed some bugs).

As for the hardware, of the three supported units, the Emuteq is the least expensive, and I’ve been pretty happy with it. One of the panels was DOA when I received it, but they were very prompt in fixing it for me. The VGA LCDs aren’t the highest quality, but I’m not sure if that would be any different from the other two manufacturers. There is some ghosting when you switch pages, but it fades out after a few seconds. The picture isn’t the clearest at times, but that might be the nature of my setup. I’m converting mini DisplayPort to VGA, so there might be some interference along the way there. The knobs and buttons work great, though if you want the most accurate G1000 replica (with the custom triangular course knobs, etc.), you’ll need to go with the SimKits TRC1000.

[JustinWheat]

Great review of the product. As far as flying with the pilotedge network do you have to have an external model or can you just fly with the Flight1Tech software and a external visual on the triple screen outside visual. That's my plan to have a triple screen setup but was curious if I had to fly with a model. Example A2A, Carendao, etc. Thanks

[tcarney]

If I'm understanding your question, it's pretty versatile with how you can configure it. The Flight1 software comes with some aircraft models for FSX/P3D that you can use that don't model the cockpit. They just show an outside view on your monitors. You can also use any other model you want. I usually fly with the Iris DA40 with a custom camera view I made to get the outside view right for my monitor setup. You can run the G1000 software on the same machine as your flight sim or on an external machine, which is how I have it set up.

[JustinWheat]

That's exactly what I was looking for. So either you can use their models or substitute your own external models. Thanks for all the great info. Sounds like there is nothing that can be said negative about this product? Thanks

[tcarney]

Great on the whole, but here are a couple negatives for the sake of completeness.

There are a few things that aren't modeled, but nothing major that would detract from using it as a learning tool. Of course, it doesn't have some of the newer G1000 features like synthetic vision, but perhaps they'll introduce that at some point.

One thing that was annoying is that it doesn't support some of the newer integrated video cards. I had bought a little Asus mini PC with integrated graphics card (dual HDMI output) specifically for this, and it wouldn't run on it. Just annoying since the G1000 shouldn't be all that graphic intensive compared to some of the games out there that run just fine on that machine. At the moment, I run the G1000 off of a MacBook Pro (with a Windows partition), and it runs just fine that way. If you have a machine with regular NVidia or ATI/AMD cards, it should run with no problem. In fairness to Fight1Tech, they do have a support page on their site that says which cards aren't supported, but I never thought to look for that.

[JustinWheat]

That's what my plan was steering to. It says it performs better on a networked PC. So I probably will have a second PC with dual GPUs to power PFD and MFD separately. My main PC will power the P3Dv2 on nvidia surround outside visual. Of course all this will Nvidia GPUs. I think this will be the best solution to compliment real world IFR training. Maybe even a volairsim setup. That's a thought I may run with.