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Title: Not new... But almost new...
Post by: Henrique on December 02, 2010, 06:53:00 AM
Hi All

My name is, Henrique, 52 years old.  I am from Oporto Portugal and live near the LPPR airport. A few years ago I bought Flight Simulator 98 for one of my children. After sometime FS98 become an entertainment for the father instead of the son.  My love for the flight simulation gradually increased. Begin buying magazines, books, hardware stuff like yoke, rudder pedals, Goflight modules, TripleHead2Go, aso. To increase my knowledge I begin visiting sites and forums related to the simulation world. A dream took over my mind. To build a 737 cockpit.
After some years the dream becomes true. As you know it will never be completed. We always want to improve, sometimes we forget the main purpose of a cockpit replica...to fly...

Here you can see some photos: http://img829.imageshack.us/slideshow/webplayer.php?id=dsc00057s.jpg (http://img829.imageshack.us/slideshow/webplayer.php?id=dsc00057s.jpg)

Hope you enjoy and give suggestions for improvement.

I would like to thank all the anonymous people that made posts that were useful to my cockpit construction in this forum and specially to those in Cockpitbuilders.com that replied several times to my e-mails asking for help:
ian@737ng.co.uk
Jackpilot
XOrionFE

Regards
Henrique
Title: Re: Not new... But almost new...
Post by: ETomlin on December 02, 2010, 07:21:21 AM
Very nice project! Good pictures too. That will keep Bob off of your case, as he likes heaps of pictures here  :D
Title: Re: Not new... But almost new...
Post by: blueskydriver on December 02, 2010, 08:52:39 AM
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Title: Re: Not new... But almost new...
Post by: jackpilot on December 02, 2010, 11:31:23 AM
FS9 (smooooooth)
B737-700 OPENSKY (very good model and compatible with everything)
PM Glass
B737-700  PM files
Always the latest builds
FDS SYS cards. (stable/support/easy to use)

Jack
Title: Re: Not new... But almost new...
Post by: Maurice on December 02, 2010, 11:56:36 AM
All I can say is WOW!!!! That is one hell of a nice project.

Maurice
Title: Re: Not new... But almost new...
Post by: XOrionFE on December 02, 2010, 12:53:16 PM
Beautiful looking!    That is a very nice cockpit Henrique.   You must be very proud of your build and deservingly so.  It is stunning.

Fly Fly Fly ! :-)

Thank you also for the kind mention,
Scott
Title: Re: Not new... But almost new...
Post by: Henrique on December 03, 2010, 02:19:01 AM
Hello

Thank you for your kind words. Replying jkcombs:

All the panels were made by a friend of mine in a CNC machine
I use both
PMGD 737-700
PM
The latest builds
FDS SYS cards for the overhead
CPFlight MIP board for the mip
Title: Re: Not new... But almost new...
Post by: Ricardo Carvalho on December 03, 2010, 02:22:54 AM
Bem vindo Henrique, grande projecto!

O mundo é mesmo pequeno, estamos a 30 km um do outro São João da Madeira. :idiot:
Title: Re: Not new... But almost new...
Post by: ian@737ng.co.uk on December 03, 2010, 05:29:30 AM
captain henrique.........
that is one real sweet project, looks superb.   it's always good to see what other people have done because it makes me 'up my game' when i see something like this.
i bet you are real proud of it  ;D
well done captain
regards

ian
Title: Re: Not new... But almost new...
Post by: vamaral on December 04, 2010, 03:17:04 PM
Excelentes fotos Henrique um resultado final fabuloso Parabéns  :D e bons voos
Vítor
Title: Re: Not new... But almost new...
Post by: jackpilot on December 05, 2010, 05:06:39 AM
Quote from: Ricardo Carvalho on December 03, 2010, 02:22:54 AM
Bem vindo Henrique, grande projecto!

O mundo é mesmo pequeno, estamos a 30 km um do outro São João da Madeira. :idiot:


Hey ...the magic of internet!! From next door to "antipodes" we all connect!
Title: Re: Not new... But almost new...
Post by: Henrique on December 05, 2010, 07:56:00 AM
Quote from: vamaral on December 04, 2010, 03:17:04 PM
Excelentes fotos Henrique um resultado final fabuloso Parabéns  :D e bons voos
Vítor

Thank you Vitor,

without your work the final result would not be the same. You are the man that made most of it so the congratulations should be shared ;)

Henrique
Title: Re: Not new... But almost new...
Post by: vamaral on December 05, 2010, 10:58:33 AM
Thank you for your words Henrique.....see you around, Cheers
Vitor :D