General concept / product overview

The main components of our system are:

• The instruments, connected to the Sea Gull   box,
• The Sea Gull Box, connected to the PC via USB, and
• The Sea Gull software on the PC. 

All our instruments link to the simulation software (MS-FS2002/4, X-plane, Elite) via the SGBox, connected to your PC via one USB port. USB provides a secure and fast data transfer.

The instruments are ‘daisy chained’; from the box to the first instrument and from the first instrument to the second and so on.…
The instruments are recognised automatically and self calibrating. The instrument system is also suitable for multi pilot and multi engine cockpits.

Our Sea Gull Software on the PC communicates with MS-FS2002/4 via Pete Dawson’s FSUIPC. We also have drivers for X-Plane and Elite. The PC software translates and converts the data and sends it to the Sea Gull Box. The 2 microprocessors in the Sea Gull Box control the communication between the PC and all of the instruments. The protocol is a very secure protocol. Every Box has 4 ports by which it is able to communicate with a total of 100 instruments.

 [An external power cable provides the instruments with the necessary power.]

Specifications
- The system needs 1 USB port and 1 external power supply.
  The performance of your flight simulator is not significantly influenced, e.g. no change in framerate.
- One ‘Sea Gull Interface Box’ connects all (existing and future) instruments to the Flight Simulator.
- Sea Gull PC Software (using FSUIPC).
- All instruments use precise, smooth and silent running stepper motors.
- All instruments have a full metal housing.
- All instruments are auto initialising and auto calibrating by there own (on board) processor.
- Instruments are available as ‘value for money’ master/slave combinations.

Multi Engine
The PC software (SGSoft) detects the instruments at startup and assigns them to the corresponding simulation information.
For instance, if two (motor) instruments of the same type are detected and the selected aircraft is a twin, the first gauge is assigned to engine one and the second (based on the serial number) to engine two.

Multi Pilot
If two (flight) instruments of the same type are detected, they will show the same information. So the second instrument can be used by the co-pilot.