Author Archive: Li Chen

Situation here in our city is getting better. We are now gradually resuming our business and restocking our products. Online shop is now reopened. Orders will be shipped with no delay.

Due to Chinese government’s strategy of controlling the spread of the new coronavirus, companies are required to be closed until further notice. Therefore, our business is greatly limited for the time being. Our shipping company, DHL has also stopped their service. Considering all that, we decide to close our online shop for a while. For the orders already payed, we will ship them as soon as shipping service is available from DHL. The earliest date we are expecting is Feb 10. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at lichenpo@hotmail.com.

Both bridges for X-Plane and FSX/P3D have a new release. Improvements including automatically saving all the settings and customization of the functionalities for some unused buttons on the audio panel. One functionality added specifically for X-Plane is a configuration for controlling the hardware bezel backlight by a switch in X-Plane. To find a command or a dataref in X-Plane, please refer to Commands.txt and DataRefs.txt under X-Plane’s Resources/plugins folder.

Today both PFD and MFD has been updated to version 5.3.0. Main improvements are as below:

1. Navdata updated to cycle 1912
2. User defined holding patterns are implemented in both PFD and MFD
3. Reversionary mode now can be activated on PFD(only on PFD) any time by tapping the ALT knob
4. RPM reading is now updated at a much higher rate
5. Added some annunciators on the PFD
6. Ready to connect to InfiniteFlight. This requires InfiniteFlight 19.4 and higher

Thanks to InfiniteFlight team for their support. For details about their excellent mobile flight simulator please visit https://infiniteflight.com

As the v5.1.0 are released for PFD&MFD, taxiways are now visible on maps. Also, in this version profile view for terrain is add in MFD. Engine gauges and paging actions are also updated according to the “modern version” of G1000.

Updates for PFD and MFD have been released. Navigation database is now updated to cycle 1902. Synthetic vision is released as an IAP item for the PFD. And, 2 new icons are used for PFD and MFD. Have fun!

According to user’s report, it is recently discovered that temperatures in engine parameters(CHT, EGT, oil) output by X-Plane are not confined to a certain unit(Fahrenheit or Celsius).  It seems that those temperatures are just numbers to X-Plane and X-Plane doesn’t really care about the values.  The actual units are only related to the aircraft models.  To make the temperature values using the right units, the latest G1000BridgeX v2.2 reads .acf files(the file of the aircraft modeling) and get the units from the file.  Ok, here is where it’s getting complicated: It seems the unit settings are not always indicating the right units in the .acf file(this also confirms X-Plane doesn’t really care about the units for those temperatures).  So, if you are already using G1000BridgeX v2.2 and seeing temperatures not making sense to you, you need to modify those unit settings in the .acf files manually.  Do as the following: Find the .acf file, it should be some where under “Aircraft” folder in your X-Plane folder with the file name similar to your aircraft’s name.  Open the file in a text editor, find lines look like “P acf/_oilT_is_C 1”, “P acf/_CHT_is_C 1”, “P acf/_EGT_is_C 1” for unit settings for oil, CHT, EGT temperatures.  Change the last number to 1 or 0 to indicate the value is in Celsius or Fahrenheit respectively.  Good luck.