Great Instruction video. Thank you

Excellent video. I learned so much. You’re very good at this. Great pointers, well delivered. Thank you.

Nicw job! Inspiring.

Hi. Is a third party software package needed to use the Leo Bodnar board with MSFS 2020, even for a simple knob like the steam gages on a Cessna 172 or it's radios? Or do you need it only to access the knobs on the G1000? You mention the third party USB joystick managers in some below comments, like those for SPAD. Thanks in advance.

Do you have a schematic showing how the Bodnar encoders are connected to the BU0836X board? I would love to build a multi encoder knob setup just like you did to control the instruments in MSFS 2020! What you did looks awesome! I would like to use this with MSFS 2020 that I have now and 2024 when it comes out!!

Gates do not match labeling in XP12, so you really can't tell it where you are.

3:04 those three things are PTAC (the give your current position, a heading direction turn, altitude direction and clearance for an approach). should always be the same order. I'm still getting used to out and it's a lot. I dont love the kniobster either but best thing until I get physical panels I still write it down first until I get better

Great video Mark. Handy setup.

I wonder if you could make multiple vertical panels that replicate the controls on a G1000 and put one on either side of an Air Manager display for the MFD and PFD, then enlarge the AM devices to hide the side panels on the screens. Then you would essentially have an MFD and a PFD in your panel that looks and acts like the real thing.

Mark hello again .Question do you have trouble getting an ifr release at a non towered airport with xplane and Pilot2atc?

It's a very good learning experience, those videos of you. Thank you very much!!

Yes, really great crosswind landings. That's the way I'm practicing the crosswind landings nowadays: I'm a student pilot trying to get my vfr rating on a microlight airplane. Crabbing and doing the last part of the landing with the side-slip. I noticed that you red the book: Microsoft Flight Simulator X for pilots; real world training, from Jeff Van West and Kevin Lane-Cummings

Wow, another great in depth explanation about the use of pilot2atc. Fantastic! Are you a pilot?

Fantastic!! Learned a lot. Thank you very much!!! Lot's of Pilot2atc stuff is very welcome and also your explanation about all types of approaches is very good!

Great explanation. Thank you very much!!!

Thanks for the video Mark. You are correct that MSFS could be more user friendly for sure. I can say that SpadNext is an incredible tool to interface with the sim. The support could not be better. You tube videos show step by step demos and discord chat for direct questions. I have replaced my button boxes with tablets and Matric software. It is a whole new world of simming for me.

What "events" / "actions" do you map to in MSFS for the outer and inner rotary encoders for the FMS knob? I'm really only interested in having a physical knob for the MFD FMS knob for entering ICAOs but can't see what to map a physical device to in MSFS.

I'm working on a similar solution. Could you provide your code, especialy for the rotarys

I need to know if this tutorial and it's clist format for X-Plane 11.55 is still a useable format for X-Plane 12.09r5. Do you have any info on what might be different or will the old X-Plane 11 format still work in X-Plane 12? Thanks for the tutorial.

Dude! I remember you from the CH Forums! The Frankenpotatoe!

Mark... How did you make the stand for the TWO Radios PLUS XPndr? Propwash only has a ready made bracket for two devices not three? Thanks.

In a Flight Simulatoy you may Get White Knuckles & Sweat But you ain't die even when you crash, Unless you have a Heart Attack. Why not take a Full size Print of the Planes Panel Glue it to a .060 peice of Aluminum/Plastic sheet. Cut out holes for Displays/Instruments/Switches/Push Buttons/Knobs/Circute Brakers/ETC. Then add all Switches ETC where cut outs were made Hook them Up to Multipal Arduinos loacated elswhere, so the Panel is as Thin as Possible. Now place this over an UHDTV of approiate sise so the Screen appears thru cutouts where Instruments/Read outs/PFD/MFD/Engin instryment/Displays are located. Locate your Yoke/Throttle/Rudder Peddles below the UHDTV table. Now you have a Actual size AC Panel with Real Switches/Knobs/Buttons with real Tactil feel in their correct Location.

Outstanding workmanship! I’m in the middle of building a Townsend knee desk

In real life, the controller would confirm if the read-back of your instructions were correct or not. It doesn't appear to happen here. What if you read back (and carried out) the wrong instructions?

I got what I call a button box from a much more computer adept friend, and it has just about all of the knobs and buttons of the G 1000 except for the joystick. But that matters little at this point since none of the sims appear to model that g1000 function. Right now there is nothing on either platform that comes anywhere near fully modeling the G1000 except for the old Mindstar setup, which only works in FSX afaik. Are you using some special software for the g1000?

Great work Sir.. beautiful piece of art

Thank you

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Love your videos Mark! I View every one of them, and you helped me a lot! Hoping for more! :) take Care :)

I've been thinking about making my own Trim Wheel and PFD/MFD Rotary Encoders and came across this video. I have no skills, knowledge, parts or tools and have only soldered the Leo Bodnar BU0836A to replace the axes of my Saitek Yoke but you have inspired me to give it a go, I'm even researching and contemplating getting a £200 3D Printer now the seed is truly sown in my head 😊

wow ,that would be so awesome if you had plans for this

Great work, going to get myself a copy of that book 📕 😊

Homeboy I’m still running you ch producers program in aces high! Swoose

I just received the same encoders and Micro-BBI, but not finding the exact wiring schematic for the bbi boards. Assuming A B a b is 1 2 3 4 and all the com tie together and to GRD on the BBI along with one side of the pushbutton?

Wow, that is beautiful.

Thanks Mark. After years of using X-plane and a bunch of false starts with Xchecklister, maybe now I can create CICs (an acronym I just now made up - Custom Interactive Checklist 🙂).

REALLY, REALLY nice job!!

Wow, great information. I think this might be exactly what I've been looking for. I need a reason to put my little machine shop to work. I wonder if I could use these little boards from leobodnar in MSFS. I'd love to know if I could assign knobs/buttons like you did in Xplane. Thanks for sharing.

Nice project Mark. Of course dedicated knobs will always be better than a Single multipurpose knob like Knobster. But while KnobXP and KnobFS software allow multipurpose use of Knobster, that was an afterthought mostly for use in VR where a group of knobs cannot be seen. Knobster was really intended for use with Air Manager instrument panels on Touch screens where it is very intuitive.Touch to select and then use the knob. Also it is small and only needs a single encoder. Much easier than KnobFS/XP. Nice job creating a very useful Knobster substitute . For me building diy is half the fun!

I did the same kind of thing with knobs but using the Behringer X-Touch Mini. The draw back is that those knobs are not duel encoders.

Nice job. If you did something wrong, I didn't see it. I had something like this happen to me on my first lesson. I was doing slow flight, and when my instructor told me to push the throttle in, I did but nothing happened! I had a stuck almost-closed throttle. He pumped the throttle a bit and did something else that I don't remember, probably because I didn't understand it -- this being my first flight. But he did get the engine to restore full power and we headed straight back to the airport. In retrospect, I suspect I didn't fully realize what jeopardy we were in because I continued on with my lessons as though nothing had happened. And eventually, I got my Private Pilots Certificate.

I would never have thought of a stuck throttle, great video. I also want to thank you for all those P2ATC videos. They are all great examples and explained in a way that even I can understand. It has taken my use of the software to the next level. Thank you again Sir.

Thanks for another good video.

I'm envious of your skill and knowledge when it comes to connecting and making things work. I'm just a pilot and not an electrical engineer. I really like my Honeycomb A and B and I also have the knobster. There might be a market for someone to travel to guys that have sim setups to upgrade or install some of these ideas.

I have both Honeycomb Alpha and Bravo controllers and love them, but haven't been happy at all with trying to get the Bravo Throttle rotary and push-button array to work properly with XP 11 and XP12. Actually it works better with XP11 than it does with XP 12. I would love to have the double ringed push knob setup like you built! Trust me I know all about the confusion when trying to multi-task twisting knobs with a mouse it is not fun!

I thought you might like to see the button assignments I use for both MSFS and X-Plane. I tried to add these to the description above but it made the description too long so I am including this table here. Hope this helps you if you decide to build your own Knob Array Panel. Thanks and let me know if you have any questions or want to see the scripts I used where adequate commands were not available. BUTTON ASSIGNMENTS Note: These assignments are for G1000 equiped aircraft. The MSFS assignments are flight simulator events used by FSUIPC, Axis And Oh's and other similar applications rather than the default CONTROLS OPTIONS. Also, there were not adequate commands for some of these and I had to resort to scipts. I indicated these with "[Script Code]". I'm happy to share that code upon request. BUTTON MSFS X-PLANE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PFD FMS Outer LT H:AS1000_PFD_FMS_Lower_DEC G1000 pilot FMS outer ring tune up PFD FMS Outer RT H:AS1000_PFD_FMS_Lower_INC G1000 pilot FMS outer ring tune down PFD FMS Inner LT H:AS1000_PFD_FMS_Upper_DEC G1000 pilot FMS inner ring tune up PFD FMS Inner RT H:AS1000_PFD_FMS_Upper_INC G1000 pilot FMS inner ring tune down PFD FMS PUSH H:AS1000_PFD_FMS_Upper_PUSH G1000 pilot FMS cursor PFD ENT H:AS1000_PFD_ENT_Push G1000 pilot ENT PFD CLR H:AS1000_PFD_CLR G1000 pilot CLR MFD FMS Outer LT H:AS1000_MFD_FMS_Lower_DEC G1000 MFD FMS outer ring tune down MFD FMS Outer RT H:AS1000_MFD_FMS_Lower_INC G1000 MFD FMS outer ring tune up MFD FMS Inner LT H:AS1000_MFD_FMS_Upper_DEC G1000 MFD FMS inner ring tune down MFD FMS Inner RT H:AS1000_MFD_FMS_Upper_INC G1000 MFD FMS inner ring tune up MFD FMS PUSH H:AS1000_MFD_FMS_Upper_PUSH G1000 MFD FMS cursor MFD ENT H:AS1000_MFD_ENT_PUSH G1000 MFD ENT MFD CLR H:AS1000_MFD_CLR G1000 MFD CLR RANGE Outer LT H:AS1000_PFD_RANGE_DEC G1000 pilot range up RANGE Outer RT H:AS1000_PFD_RANGE_INC G1000 pilot range down RANGE Inner LT H:AS1000_MFD_RANGE_DEC G1000 MFD range up RANGE Inner RT H:AS1000_MFD_RANGE_INC G1000 MFD rangedown PAN LT H:AS1000_MFD_JOYSTICK_LEFT G1000 MFD pan left PAN RT H:AS1000_MFD_JOYSTICK_RIGHT G1000 MFD pan right PAN UP H:AS1000_MFD_JOYSTICK_UP G1000 MFD pan up PAN DN H:AS1000_MFD_JOYSTICK_DOWN G1000 MFD pan down PAN PUSH H:AS1000_MFD_JOYSTICK_PUSH G1000 MFD push pan BARO/CRS Outer LT H:AS1000_PFD_BARO_DEC Baro selection down a bit BARO/CRS Outer RT H:AS1000_PFD_BARO_INC Baro selection up a bit BARO/CRS Inner LT VOR1_OBI_DEC [Script Code] BARO/CRS Inner RT VOR1_OBI_INC [Script Code] BARO/CRS Outer PUSH BAROMETRIC_STD_PRESSURE Baro pressure selection 2992 IAS/VS Outer LT AP_SPD_VAR_DEC Autopilot airspeed down IAS/VS Outer RT AP_SPD_VAR_INC Autopilot airspeed up IAS/VS Inner LT AP_VS_VAR_DEC [Script Code] IAS/VS Inner RT AP_VS_VAR_INC [Script Code] ALT Outer LT [Script Code] G1000 pilot altitude outer ring down ALT Outer RT [Script Code] G1000 pilot altitude outer ring up ALT Inner LT [Script Code] G1000 pilot altitude inner ring down ALT Inner RT [Script Code] G1000 pilot altitude inner ring up BARO/HDG Outer LT H:AS1000_MFD_BARO_DEC Baro selection down a bit BARO/HDG Outer RT H:AS1000_MFD_BARO_INC Baro selection up a bit BARO/HDG Inner LT [Script Code] [Script Code] BARO/HDG Inner RT [Script Code] [Script Code] BARO/HDG PUSH [Script Code] Autopilot heading sync

great project and well done! one question: how do you get to control the range button? I just can not find it in the MSFS configuration menu

Okay Mark, we gatta talk. It's been my experience BARO will not INC or DEC unless I press the B key in MSFS. Whereas in XPlane I can turn my knob assigned and it works perfectly. Thoughts?

Mark. Have you looked into getting the Reality xp gtn 750 for XP. Looks pretty slick. Its cheaper than the version for MSFS.

is knobster installed as plugin?