Air Manager 3.7

[Keith Baxter]

Corjan

What is planned for AM 3.7 and when can we expect a beta?

Keith

[Corjan]

Hi,


Most changes will be made to the iPad version:
- Premium panels
- Background color can be changed
- Instruments are now organized on aircraft

Biggest thing on the Desktop will be the ability to reset your license.

We also have the plan to release Air Player for Android with 3.7.


Corjan

[Corjan]

Hi,


Sorry for the slow response, but there is some news for AM 3.7.

We have made a deal with Flight Illusion, where AM will get support for Flight Illusion gauges.
Initially, AM 3.7 will get support for some of the Flight Illusion gauges, which still have to defined. Almost all gauges should be supported with AM 3.8.
There will be API functions to interact with the Flight Illusion gauges.

Flight Illusion makes very nice physical instruments, check out their website for more information:
https://www.flightillusion.com

AP 3.7 will get support for the Raspberry Pi 4. And if I can find a good way to do it, still have AP for android as well.


I kinda want to release the first AM 3.7 BETA this week,

Corjan

[SimPassion]

Hello Corjan

indeed some great news
does it mean that FI gauges will be supported trough API, allowing the gauges to be wired on Arduino boards ?

Gilles

[SimPassion]

I've answered here for the Android question :

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/f ... nt=1727008

Gilles

[Ralph]

It will still go through their interface boards, no Arduino interface.

[SimPassion]

Ah, I see, surely a custom protocol between their boards and instruments

So eventually :

• instruments
• central board GSA-055 : https://www.flightillusion.com/product/ ... interface/
• additional I/O board GSA-010 : https://www.flightillusion.com/product/ ... usb-based/
• cable extender HW-EXT : https://www.flightillusion.com/product/hw-ext/
• power supply

Gilles

[SimPassion]

They bring a very nice Collins set (though not for my budget)
and FI is well known for quality
https://www.flightillusion.com/product/cav-set/

Gilles

[Sling]

Nice gear and nice prices.

I think the vast majority of AM users are not going to use these features at all. Was there some request or customer driven demand that has brought this about?

They must already have an interfacing means to the sim so i’m wondering what AM brings to the party.

I can only speak for myself but I think i’d rather be seeing new feature development work be done on implementing those much anticipated NAV features.

Tony

[Corjan]

Hi,


Yeah, I can imagine for most AM users this probably isn't to exiting.

They were looking for a replacement for their existing interface software (called G-STEP). We will make a separate application, just for them.
And since we will be developing the interfacing anyways, we thought about throwing it into Air Manager as well.

And then we still have half a helicopter layout around, that also needs a couple of FI gauges installed. So hopefully this will also help us finish that someday, if we ever find the time


Corjan