F-15C Flight Simulator Project

My original gauge controller boards were done in Eagle, long before Autodesk got their claws into them and murdered them.

Back in 2015, I began working on replicas of the Fuel Flow, FTIT, and RPM gauges.

This flight simulator involves a number of different power supplies that are used to supply the panel and instrument lighting (5VDC), various indicator lamps (24VDC), the control loading system (24VDC), and the CANBus I/O interfaces and instrument control…

One of the final tasks I have to do with the VPForce FFB system I’m using for the F-15’s control loader is to permanently connect the power supply it uses.

In March of 2006, a person named Steve reached out to me with the following story: First I’ll tell you the story of how it was that aircraft 007 was chosen to perform at the airshow at Soesterberg (pronounced Soo-sterberg) AB in the Netherlands.

Not exactly F-15 specific (F/A-18 actually…), but I figured the folks that follow my shenannigans would get a kick out of this.

I decided some weeks ago that the existing AC power infrastructure that I’d originally implemented really wasn’t going to do the job.

As I discovered in the last video, I had some flight grip switch problems during the testing of the new control loader.

Some months ago I embarked on getting a control loader installed into the F-15C.

Before I can get the VPForce-based control loading system installed in the F-15, I needed to build a cable that connects the SFS wiring harness in the cockpit to something that can read the switch inputs from the grip.