Cockpit
The cockpit frame and shape was built up from various drawings found on the Internet, I have made my first start in this first picture with just the MIP and Centre console, including my newly built TQ.
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The front windows have been built by making a wooden frame to the correct sizes and then “cladding” them with B&Q’s best grey foam pipe heat cladding split tubing.
Novel, but effective?
Still using the CH yoke and pedals on their own at this stage
Have started to make the side panels with, once again wooden frame work.
Still using mouse and keyboard as yet, haven’t quite moved onto all the pleasures of none mouse/keyboard flying just yet...!
You can now get an idea of how the frame is put together, once again as I build it up I use the pipe cladding to make it look like the inside of the cockpit, with some solidity...? If there is such a word?
Obviously I have done some work on the overhead and have started to fit it in the correct position.
The internal wiring is nearly finished, but nothing is connected up to FS yet
You can just see the overhead cover on the right hand side of the picture, looks just about ready to fit on top of the overhead?
At the back of the picture above, and to the left is an old power supply from a computer, I am using this for the overhead main supply of 12 volts.
I will change this shortly to 5 volts, when I completely re-
A friend and I have been developing a hardware interface that will interact with PMDG to “Simulate” the simulation on an overhead working correctly.
As most of you will realise, without PM, its impossible to get feedback from FS to turn on/off Enunciators on the overhead panel.
This is another shot from inside the cockpit, now with some wiring connected up to the overhead and back lit too.
This is quite a long jump forward, as you can see I have now got to the stage where the inner cladding has been applied to the wooden frames.
I have also placed another two flat panel monitors where the upper surface windows would be, and as you can see I have added 2 x 42” plasma TV’s one to each side in order to give the side views.
Yes I know there is a gap between the front screen (which is projected onto), and the side panels, sorry haven’t found a cheap method of producing a curved screen, not withstanding the pennies to afford the projector to do it......!
So the cockpit is starting to look more solid and dare I say it realistic to?
So now we are getting close to the finished artical........
I have fitted the back board, even placed some carpets on the floor and in case anything starts to go up in smoke, a fire extinguisher, yes its a real one and in date as well..!
Now to get even more reality, I have installed a set of headphones for P1, P2 and the “Jump seat”.
This was a mammoth task in itself, for those flying FSX, easy.... A system has been included so that, with the aid of a set of headphones the ATC can be heard, but not so with FS9.
The best way to do this is to have an ATC type programme running on another machine (using WideFS) say Radar Contact V4; then you will be able to just get the ATC over your headsets on their own.