EFIS / MCP on its way

[jskibo]

Just got a note from CPFlight that my MCP and EFIS's are on the way and should be here Monday..... Of course I have to head to STL Tuesday for a meeting with Boeing, so no fun until next weekend.

That should wrap up the MIP and front office with the exception of the Inhibit switch wiring.  So I have MIP complete and Rev Sim TQ as well as a custom made pedestal and most of the radios (Thank you Mike).

So I still need a Yoke (guess I can fly my Saitek for a bit if I must), Rudder pedals (this is slightly more urgent as the Saitek stuck in hard right last I used them) the overhead and shell.

What to buy next?

[ipg1939]

Couple of these babies perhaps??

[jskibo]

Yes, I'll have to make a trip to the boneyards and grab a pair of those once the house and three garages look a bit different than this:


Cramped into a two bed apartment with the wife and 4 kids while we build.....Oh joy! 

[ipg1939]

Yea, I think your right. The house still needs some paint!

[jskibo]

Not a great picture.

Only had time to mount it to the plate and brackets from FDS last night.  To fire it up I need to drag the FSX PC closer.

[jetpilot]

Great work . Looking forward to see it firing up. Did you find any problem mounting your CP parts?

[jskibo]

No, the plate and brackets FDS provided me for the CP gear worked great.  Four bolts and it was ready to mount in the glare.  Top notch stuff.

Biggest thing I ran across was having to cut some foam as the CPFlight stuff is maybe a quarter inch shorter than the gap, so to prevent light from coming through I used some black door foam.

[jskibo]

Night shot

[jackpilot]

Yep, dim backlighting, when all  is quiet at the back, they all snooze, cockpit door unlock and you get that sexy Flight attendant smile, and a late tray with First Class strawberry sherbet, just a tad of turbulence, waiting for the horizon to show a thin band of light blue turning pink and Shannon Control to chime in...ahh! 

[jskibo]

Just got my Sim Avionics key.....

....but of course I happen to be on the road in St. Louis so I can't fly it until the weekend.....grrrr, the wait!

I'm here at Boeing for the Delivery Ceremony for the 500th F/A-18 Super Hornet.  Pretty cool as I started my career at Boeing writing maintenance task analysis on the Super Hornet Strucures back when the bird was in EMD and LRIP.  I even got the "honor" of writing the first Air Frame Change (AFC) on it when I worked retrofit Engineering.  16 years later I'm now a supplier and get to see number 500 roll off.