A330 FCU

The goal of this project is a dashboard with the most important buttons, switches and displays of a A330 FCU for X-Plane. The communication between the dashboard and X-Plane uses UDP.

Prerequisites

• X-Plane
• A330 from JARDesign

Simulated controls

• Displays:
  • Speed (SPD) inclusive managed speed dot
  • Heading (HDG) inclusive managed lateral dot
  • Altitude (ALT) inclusive managed level change dot
  • Vertical Speed (V/S)
• Selectors knobs:
  • Speed
  • Heading
  • Altitude
  • Vertical Speed
• Switches:
  • ND mode selector
  • ND range selector
• Buttons:
  • AP1/AP2 engagement
  • A/THR activation
  • LOC/ALT/APPR engagement
  • FD/LS selectors
  • CSTR/WPT/VOR.D/NDB/APT selectors

Hardware

• ESP8266 (Wemos D1 mini)
• MAX7219 (7 segment display driver, SPI bus) or MAX6955 (7 segment display driver, I2C bus)
• MCP23017 (GPIO extender, I2C bus)

Software

• IDE: PlatformIO

Thoughts

• If the position of a selector switch is changed in the simulation the dashboard do not correspond to the simulation. Therefore the position of the selector switches is periodically send to X-Plane.
• Add a refresh (reset) button which will send all positions to X-Plane and update all controls according their state in X-Plane
• Control the brightness of the displays and LEDs. Either from the settings in X-Plane or on-board controls to set this individually for the displays and the LEDs.

ToDo

• Check, that DataRefs are available to control all elements