737NG Project update

[Themax]

Hello,

I had a very nice holiday ! I went to lisbon with Brussels Airlines for a very nice citytrip ! Got jumpseat during the 2 flights  737-300 and 737-400. Last year I also went on jumpseat 737-300  I just like the crew of Brussels Airlines ! Thank you ! I'll start with some photos :

(right click and "show picture" for a bigger size  )







It was a very nice birthday ! I became 16 the day we came back home. Coming back home, it was a nice aviation week, visiting the control tower "Belgocontrol" at brussels, doing my medical class 1 to become pilot and I'm starting my PPL in 4 days 

But I don't know why I'm telling all these things ! Let's come back to the virtual aviation, the progress on my 737ng home cockpit 

Remember my last update in July : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4N3JbWXQg0

I started to interface the center panel, adding the landing gear lever, flaps gauge from simkits (It's the usb gauge kit, allowing you to build any gauge you want) and starting interfacing the switches (autobrake, etc) and annunciators (landing gear, flaps ext, etc).



I also added a new panel light to the cockpit :



The cockpit will be like last year at the IVAO BE Lan party on 2 October  This year I'll have a copilot, my good friend Mattias (also a 737 fan, but on pmdg  )

That's it for the moment, hope you like it !

Maxime.

[XOrionFE]

Awesome pics Maxime and thanks for sharing.    Happy Birthday as well.

Your sim is looking great.   Good luck with PPL.   I will never forget my first solo.   You'll have a ton of fun with it.

Scott

[carlos hermida]

 Nice pics from 737 and your cockpit too.
Enjoy your real flight lessons, you will learn a lot ! 
I remembered my flights while reading your post...Ohhh It was in september 1998  and solo
flight was a special sensation of freedom....Good luck with your PPL ! 

[ekznamu]

Hi Maxime,

the pics of your HC are indicating that you are a friend of details.
Especially the stand by instrument in the middle. Does the combined altitude and speed indicator really work ? Where did you get it or rather how did you make it ?

Uwe

[Themax]

Hello,

thank you  For sure I'll enjoy my PPL 

It took me 5 minutes to make the standby instruments... because it's just paper  Actually I don't plan to use working standby instruments. In stead of having empty holes in my MIP I printed the 3 standby instruments and put them behind the mip :



I just have to put a light behind it and during night flights the standbys are fully backlighted :



You can see the tape on the standby's but that's because I don't had transparant tape at this moment, but I just have to put them again, that's not a big problem.

Maxime 

[jackpilot]

Good  4 U...!!
Told you Guys, Jumpseating is still possible in Europe!

[jackpilot]

Maxime,
For your ST-By Horizon, here is a reprint of a text I posted on FDS in...2005!
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Airliner 3D Ball Horizon
Materials needed:
-One regular tin can 3" diam shortened about 1"from the bottom for the instrument casing/ painted flat black inside
-One plastic ball about 2"diam cut in two. I found the right ones at K-Mart for $2 toy dept.
-One outside ring that you can make yourself out of anything. I used a real one from a $10 real Horizon bought on Ebay
-The instrument facia with lens provided with the MIP. I used a real one with the adjustable little wings of the above ADI
Tips:
Try to find a real discarded Horizon, easy to open, cheap as anything on Ebay or local airport shop.Looks terrific.
The balls came in orange or white . I found the flat bue at a local hardware, in a small jar, DecoArt Americana, baby blue. Select your paint scheme, orange/blue, black/blue, black/ white, . For the runway and angle markings, I used adhesive tape cut thin.
Add a knob at the bottom (any small cylindrical knob from Radio Shack) painted gray

Enjoy.
Jack

[fsaviator]

Maxime,

I am impressed.  It is really great to see a young man with such passion for something, as well as an eye for detail and pride in his/her work.  Kudos to you.  Your pit looks great!

Good luck with your PPL.  I too remember my first solo...  the experience is truly one you will never forget.

Warren

[Bob Reed]

Looks great.. Nice to have you here.... I look forward to watching it grow and hearing about your PPL fun!

[RojanTrojan]

Great pictures Maxime and good luck with the PPL. Project is looking really great.

Rhydian