General concept / product overview

The main components of our system are:

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

All our instruments link to the simulation software (MS-FS2002/4/6 & MS-FSX, X-Plane, Elite-Sim, Diamond-Sim) via the SGBox, connected to your PC via one USB port. USB provides a secure and fast data transfer.

The instruments are ‘daisy chained’ via the CAN bus; from the Box to the first Master instrument and from the first Master instrument to the second Master, and so on.…
Up to four Slave-instruments can be connected to each Master; a Master contains more electronics/firmware etc. hence costs more than a Slave instrument.
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-FS2002/4/6 & MS-FSX via Pete Dawson’s FSUIPC. We also supply drivers for X-Plane and Elite-Sim and Diamond-Sim. 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 over 1000 instruments.

 [External DC power provides the instruments with the necessary power.]

Specifications
- The system needs 1 USB port and 1 external DC power supply.
  The performance of your flight simulator is not significantly influenced, e.g. no change in framerate.
- Via one ‘Sea Gull Interface Box’ all (existing and future) instruments are connected to the Flight Simulator.
- Sea Gull PC Software for MS-FS (using FSUIPC), for X-Plane or for Elite-Sim & Diamond-Sim.
- 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 (based on its serial number) is assigned to engine one and the second gauge 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.

Combined Multi Engine and Multi Pilot or Pilot/Instructor
If four (motor) instruments of the same type are detected and the selected aircraft is a twin, the first gauge (based on its serial number) is assigned to engine one and the second gauge to engine two; the third and the fourth are again assigned to engines one and two, so they can be used as the co-pilot-instruments or (in a separate panel) the instructor-instruments.