Viper1970 Posted February 25, 2021 Posted February 25, 2021 (edited) On 2/22/2021 at 3:04 AM, Bunny Clark said: I've been thinking of that too. Point that's going to be interesting: the Apache MFDs look to have 6 buttons per side, unlike the Cougar MFD's 5 buttons. That's going to make binding a pain in the ass. May be you could use old Quick Shot Masterpilots and use other Electronics like an Arcaze, Pokeys or Arduino board. If you live in the US they are still sold sometimes on ebay. Here in the EU it's very hard to get them. You have to remove the lower part from them. But it's not an easy task, cause the Masterpilot has softtouch buttons and six of them are each connected to four longish PCB's arround the MFD in the frame. You have to cut some of the connections from the buttons at the PCB and solder wires directly or to fidle out the logic from the boards and use something like a shift register or matrix to connect them to one of the above mentioned USB controller boards. You also have to add the additional buttons the Apache MFD's have and if you want to use them in front of a TFT-monitor, you also have to cut out the MFD frame (no great problem, I have still four of them and already did this cutout on all of them). At the moment I'm doing all the other controls for my pit, but I have also planed to make the MFD's and maybe the TEDAC of the AH-64D at a later time. I take the old Masterpilots I have in account to use them, but I'm also not sure if it's more work to convert them, as to build new 3D printed ones that really match the original MFD's. Edited February 25, 2021 by Viper1970 CockpitPC1: R9 5950X|64GB DDR4|512GB M2SSD|2TB M2SSD|RTX3090|ReverbG2|Win11Pro - PC2: PhnIIX6 1100T|32GB DDR2|2x2TB HDD|2x GTX660 SLI|Win7Pro64 ComUnitPC1: R9 3900XT|32GB DDR4|2x2TB HDD|RTX2070|Win11Pro - PC2: PhnIIX6 1100T|16GB DDR2|2x2TB HDD|GTX660|Win7Pro64 ComUnitPC3: AthlnIIX2 250|2GB DDR2|2TB HDD|5950Ultra|2xVoodooII SLI|WinXPPro32&WinME - PC4: K6-2+|768MB SDR|640GB HDD|Geforce256DDR|VoodooI|Win98SE
ApacheDoctor Posted February 26, 2021 Posted February 26, 2021 To those who are concerned about the autopilot, it's very similar to a 2-axis stability augmentation system. It won't be full AP like you'd see on a civilian airliner. I am not sure about the position hold/hover. I wasn't an Army aviator. On 1/16/2021 at 5:11 PM, Bedouin said: I read the following concerning the D-Model, if this is implemented i who really help when flying solo: "An enhanced autopilot with attitude, altitude and position hold in hover takes the effort out of NOE "masked" hover behind covering terrain."
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