Yay! Belated Christmas!

[fsaviator]

As most of you know, I've been gone and Just got home from Iraq and guess what I had waiting for me...  It was like Christmas in my house this morning.  I woke up early as my sleep cycle is jacked up...  everyone else was asleep...  and headed down to my office.  The kids had jokingly stacked all the packages that had come over the last month in front of the office door so I couldn't get in.  Instead I laid into the boxes.  Guess what I had:

The smart sim tech board I won from Tyler and Co, serial number 002!

I also had a very nice Tiller that I purchased from Mau.

The complete first season of "The Aviators" was sitting there

A Flightsound X that I really don't remember buying from PCAviator...  I think mom bought it for me for Christmas...

I also had a box from Eren at Rev-Sim...  it contained the map holders for my throttle!  They'd been out of stock so long ago but Eren didn't forget!  That man is awesome.  Hopefully Rev-Sim will continue to drive on as I am really eying some more of their products.

There was apackage from White Hawk Electronics with 5 Honeywell locking toggle switches.

There was box with a bunch of stuff from Electronic-Goldmine, to include 10 solenoids (they were cheap) that I bought to come up with another way to rig start switches...  the ad said 2 1/2" body.  I didn't have a ruler at the time, so I visualized 2-1/2".  It appears that my idea of 2-1/2" is not as accurate as I thought so, not only do they appear to big for waht I wanted, but it tunrs out I've been lying to myself for years

Thanks sharing Xmas morning me with me.  Now once I've spent a little time with the ground crew and support staff, I can dive back into my cockpit!

Warren

[jackpilot]

Welcome back Warren!
Jack

[jskibo]

Always nice to get boxes!!!

[Bob Reed]

Hey Warren. Nice to have you back safe and sound and remember.... Pictures are always nice!

[Maurice]

Hi Warren,

I thought you were supposed to be in Iraq until August but great to hear you made it home early & safely. Hope you have a great time in Greece if you are still going there for a well deserved holiday.

Maurice

[shaneb]

Hey Warren,

Great to see your home safe! . . hope you had a good Xmas morning.  Sounds like you did . . packages are awesome!       

[fsaviator]

Hi Warren,

I thought you were supposed to be in Iraq until August but great to hear you made it home early & safely. Hope you have a great time in Greece if you are still going there for a well deserved holiday.

Maurice

Mau,

We were planning for the worst and were pleasantly surprised to get home a little earlier.  Greece is still next...  That will be the whole month of July.  I'm hoping to get over to Nick1150's and see his great build.  He's come a long way since I last flew it, and it always gives me a recharge to come home and work on mine.

My next step is relocating my build to another room to make room for my Dad...  that will give me the chance to make some build changes/improvements.  First...  some welding classes so I can quit making holes in metal.

Warren

[Maurice]

Just one bit of advice if I may. I don't know if you are planning to have a full size shell for the sim, but if you are, make sure you build a modular platform that allows you easy access to the back of the MIP. You may want to take a look at an earlier post of mine about that.

Have fun with your new 'toys'.

Maurice

[fsaviator]

Already tracking on that Mau.  Your previous post took care of that.  Thanks!

Warren