Hi all,
So completely by surprise, my phone rang yesterday morning while I was at work, with a delivery from FDS! I knew it must be the long awaited 737NG interior liners!
After a full evening of installing them into the FDS shell (much simpler than one might think, certainly easier than I expected), the result was stunning! This is one fine set of hardware, and finishes up the "look" of the cockpit immensely.
A couple of pieces were missing out of the box (center window post), but in line with the great service I've always experienced from FDS, a box containing replacements for the missing items is already enroute to me.
Here's an image of the cockpit with the liners installed:
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(Link to full 1024px image here: http://www.airdisaster.com/chris/sim-liners.jpg (http://www.airdisaster.com/chris/sim-liners.jpg))
I've already mounted an $11 set of computer speakers from WalMart behind the speaker grills (plenty of room there), and set up a third instance of PMSounds to run all of the aural callouts through them. The effect is outstanding. Now just need a couple of map lights, the center window post once it arrives, polycarbonate windows (also coming from FDS), and of course, a tiller, to complete the "shelled" part of the flight deck!
Kudos to FDS for yet another ingenious solution to solving the cockpit building puzzle!
Good job by peter and crew and great visuals !
nice mcp too btw ;-)
stef
Looks great!
Amazing looking finish to it too. Wow! What can one say but Incredible. Thanks for sharing the image and information. I like stories like this because it all reminds us of the quality of service you get from reputable companies.
Great stuff.
Trev
Very, VERY nice looking! Do you have some info posted on your visual system, which FS (9 or X), etc?
Outstanding!
Perfect !
Thanks for the kind words everyone. I promise to post an outline of my visual system soon... it's really nothing complicated, just based off Nat Crea's 3-projector TH2GO w/ warped screen principle.
Today's project involved taking a couple of plastic clipboards from Office Depot and bashing them with a hammer until the "clip" part of the board was free, then mounting the newly liberated "clips" to the interior liners to create the map clipboards present in the real NG.
Next to come: Map/Chart light boards/interface, Nihad's great new V2 o2 panels, and cup holders (gotta have some place to keep the beer bottles secured during flight!! 8) ).
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Chris,
How did you turn ON the VSD (Vertical Situation Display) on FO's NAV display?
Thanks,
Carlos
Carlos,
I don't have access to the sim right now, but if I'm not mistaken, to enable the Capt side VSD you can set offset 04F4 value 87, and for the F/O side set the value to 187. Setting the value again turns it off. Give that a shot, and if it doesn't work, let me know and I'll check again.
if i'm not mistaken, from the cdu:
index -----> RSK 6 : Maint ----> LSK5: EFIS ---->RSK1: ND SETTINGS---> RSK3 VERT TERR.
Cant test here right now, but i believe thats the way to get it on the nd
Stef
Thanks Chris and Stef, I will test it right now and inform here if it worked on both way.
So, both way worked great ! Thanks guys !
Holy Crap! He remembered the Offset and Stef remembered the LSK Keys.. Geeze. I totally need to spend more time in the sim, I wouldn't have remembered any of that if my life depended on it :)