Just interested to know who is using P8R's Alpha FMC Glass Cockpit Software. Just been over to the Yahoo group for P8R and it looks totally dead which I find amazing considering how good this package is. I am using it along with FreeFD PFD and Zorro, a screen blanking tool that enables me to get a reasonably learjet45 like display. Download Magna Carta Psp Iso English Software here. The software is free, has a fully working FMC, ND, EFIS and even a couple of EICAS displays and is updatable using the AIRAC data. If you are using it have you found a way to use it along side the FSX ATC. I think that to do this it would require a flightplan convertor to convert P8R plans to FSX.PLN files but hoping someone can suggest a better way.

For all those wondering what P8R is here are the links to a tutorial and the Download.

All glass cockpits seem to have the same basic setup for the primary instruments. Altitude tape on the right, air speed tape on the left, turn coordinator on top and an artificial horizon in the background. I can't find any good information on how the glass cockpit came to be and more specifically, how this layout was developed and adopted. I'm curious about: • Who developed the first glass cockpits?

From the beginner in glass cockpit airliners to the. V1.7.0 software standard update to the A320 series. On the A320-X, there’s an eerie. Every glass-panel flyer's worst nightmare. But the A320 is becoming known for it over at British Air. I have 82 hours glass cockpit experience.

• Which planes first used these glass cockpits? • How was the current layout developed, were other layouts in use beforehand? • Was there any resistance or difficulty in getting these systems adopted amongst pilots or their companies? It depends on how you define 'glass cockpit.' Technology has progressed in steps to the modern 'glass cockpits' of the latest aircraft. Who developed the first glass cockpits? The military appears to be the first place where electronic displays were used.