The Captain Bob Newsletter

Issue #2
Issue might not be the correct term, this is supposed to fix your problems.

Above Image: Cessna 172R fuel and engine instruments. Photo taken by "Captain Bob"
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This Week's Progress:

Here are some GPS Buttons I'm designing. They are going to be tested out., Still a work in progress, but it's starting to come together!
I'm putting all of the buttons on a .5mm "raft". This part will be engraved by the 3080 CNC mill.
Small progress is still progress.

Tip of the Week:

This week's tip is that you can find rough measurements with a tool called eleif.net
https://eleif.net/photo_measure.html
This will let you get a concept of how big everything is. All you have to do is input one dimension, and the rest will be scaled up to that dimension. Unfortunately this does not take advanate of perpective and tilted planes, so it works best with pictures that are not tilted. On the image used a known dimension of (about) 39.5", and found the instrument was about 3.34" (actually 3.125", but within a quarter of an inch). This will help you find a lot of dimensions if you don't have a reliable source for them.

If you would like to submit a tip, please email CaptainBobSim@gmail.com with "Here's a tip" in the subject.

Videos of the Week:

Learn how to use a GNS 530 GPS!

Interview with Riley about the differences between the C172R Simulator and C172G Airplane!

Live Stream:

The next live stream will be on August 7th, at 20:30 UTC.
I think we might do some flying!! This time I'll try to get the streaming software installed in time.
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The next video is a secret! I'm sorry, that's just how things roll around here :)
Hint: Flat piece of plastic. Maybe some bumps.

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