Zibo and the Arduino Micro Pro

Good day from sunny South Africa

I have now completed my 737 Yoke project.

I have found the interface between my new Arduino Pro Micro

and X-Plane 11 even easier than I guessed it would be.

1 All you need to do is follow Karl Klark's article on the Arduino Pro Micro

to the letter i.e. in windows you end up with an upload of a new USB Game Controller

called Arduino Leonardo tested and debugged

2 You get rid of the pluggins MobiFlight, Simvim, Air manager etc. but not Vatsim if you plan to

join a virtual flying circus

3 Go to X-plane settings and under joysticks your new USB device will be waiting for you uncalibrated

Set up your buttons

For Pitch Trim Down Button 0

For Pitch Trim Up Button 1

For A/P Disengage Button 3 Some weird programmer calls it Servos Disconnect in the X-plane list

Note you must fly above 400 ft before the A/P can be activated and only then will the A/P Disengage button work

For MIC Button 4 or Vatsim equivalent

Axes 0 Is a temporary throttle used untill such a time as when I have built my 737DiySim throttle quadrant

You can not land a 737 with a throttle only 1.5 cm in length The Boeing throttle is at least 10 cm long

Axes 1 Is Roll

Axes 2 Is Pitch

4 You now calibrate your joystick as per normal X-plane procedure or better still you fly the Zibo mod 737

and you set up your joystick and calibrate it as per the Zibo Install Guide created by Skymatics

5 Donate where applicable (the Zibo Mod is freeware)

You will end up with the state of the art 737