MCDU

To get flying quickly I decided to buy a complete plug and play MCDU from Flight Deck Solutions.

The first surprise was finding that the PSOne screen was NTSC rather the PAL, I did not have an NTSC option with the graphics card I had intended to use (A Radeon AIW which is good for TV).

I found that an ATI 9250 has the NTSC option and I found that I could get the display working on that. However it was not possible to line it up correctly; if I got the height right to line up the LSK keys with the text, the text disappears off of the right of the screen.
If I get the width right I would have to guess which button to press:
 

In the ATI control centre I have tried the max height setting for the TV screen and the overscan option.

 

 

 

 

 

Then I found out that if you press the MCDU Menu key twice a lot more options to optimise the screen display appears within the AST software. With no instruction manual how was I supposed to guess that!!

That's got it!

 

 

 

I then decided to buy a second unit but FDS were no longer offering this standard which was very frustrating. I have therefore bought a kit from Open Cockpits which I will build up soon and put some pictures here