B747-400

Has anyone tried making their own ignition start switches for a B747-400. I'm presently working on my overhead panel. I made my Korry switches out of 1" ID square acrylic tubing, 1" sq. rod and tactile switches. On the B744 when you pull the start switch out, if the start sequence initiates, the switch lights up and when the engine starts the switch pulls back in and the light goes off. Finding a switch that operates this way would be very expensive if even possible. I thought about making my own using some type of coil to pull the switch back in. Has anyone else ever tried this?

COCKPIT SYSTEM SPECS
Home Cockpit based on B747-400
UBEE CABLE Modem/Router
Linksys 5 Port Switch
Altec Lansing VS5237 5.1 Surround Sound
PROJECT MAGENTA BOEING SOFTWARE
IOCARDS AND SIOC
SYSTEM 1
(COCKPIT-1)
EVGA P55 FTW 1156 ATX Motherboard
Intel i7 875K @ 2.93 Ghz
COOLER MASTER HYPER 212+ CPU COOLER
Corsair 4GB DDR3-2000 PC-16000
Evga GTX 285 DDR3
Evga 8800 GT 512MB DDR3
Seagate 500GB SATA II
Seagate 1.5TB SATA II
SoundBlaster Audigy2
Cooler Master 1200w PS
Matrox TripleHeadToGo
(3) Samsung 46” HDTVs-Front surround view
ViewSonic 22” LCD-Left view
Aesus 23” LCD-Right view
Windows 7 64-bit

SYSTEM 2
(COCKPIT-2)
NForce 750i LT SLI Motherboard
Core 2 DUO E8400 @ 3.0 Ghz
Corsair 4GB 800MHz DDR2
Evga GT 295 DDR3
Evga 8800 GT 512MB DDR3
Seagate 500GB SATA II
Cooler Master 750w PS
AOC 24” LCD-Captains PFD/ND
ACER 23.5” LCD-Overhead & MCP
Chemei 19” LCD-Primary ECIAS
Chemei 15.5” LCD-Secondary ECIAS/CDU
Windows 7 32-bit

SYSTEM 3
(COCKPIT-3)
Intel D865PERL Motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz cpu
Corsair 4GB 800MHz DDR
Geforce4 512MB Graphics card
ASA 19”
Chemei 19” LCD-FO OFD/ND
Seagate 500GB SATA II
300w PS
Windows XP
IOCARDS

(2) USB EXPANSION CARD
(7) MASTER CARDS
(5) 7 SEG DISPLAY CARDS
(15) 5 DISPLAY HOLDERS
(4) 3 DISPLAY HOLDERS
(1) USB RELAYS CARD
(1) USB KEYBOARD EMULATOR CARD
(2) USB AXIS CARD

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hi there,

I realize that this matter is already abt. 3 years old, but still interesting. May I ask you 2 questions

which model(s) your are using for the planes, PMDG or Posky or?

any aircraft configs for pm other than the file from their homepage (issued 2001) ?

thanks in advance for kind attention and reply

regards
Claus-Jürgen Körner

I'm using the freeware Ifly B747-400 and PMs B747-400 config file from their homepage.

Jerry

hello,

thanks for prompt reply

will give it a try.

regards
CJK

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Originally Posted by 150245

hello,

thanks for prompt reply

will give it a try.

regards
CJK

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hello again,

I tried the ifly B 747. I am not very happy with the model although it is better than the default. Flight performance is quit ok.
Do you operate the plane with Magentas pmsystems? or did you manage to get the overhead and throttle windows working. In this case
I like to receive the panel cfg.
When I tried to keep overhead and and throttle panel. in the overhead the switchbuttons are not working and the throttles were not 'moving'.

regards
CJK

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Originally Posted by 150245

hello again,

Do you operate the plane with Magentas pmsystems? or did you manage to get the overhead and throttle windows working.

CJK

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I'm using pmSystems, Glass Cockpit and MCP. I built my own MCP. Flight Displays and overhead panel, pedestal, throttle quadrant,linked yokes etc so I don't need a virtual cockpit. I'm still using the pmSystems overhead graphic because I haven't gotten all of my overhead panel working yet. I have the PMDG 747 and the flight model is much better but I'm not ready to tackle trying to interface it with Project Magenta and SIOC yet.

Jerry


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good morning to you,

nice cockpit.

I am using in FS9 the PMDG 747 so far with own build MCP and Throttle quadrant. Overhead is placed on 19zoll TFT. PFD, ND and Thrust is placed on 22zoll TFT. FMC and lower Eicas shown on a 15zoll TFT and Scenery shown on a 24zoll TFT. Buttons etc working via the PMDG keyboar dcommands with registered FSUIPC, except the overhead for wich I am using the mouse.

PMDG software is not at all cooperative and not compatible with PM. Provided you are flying in FS2004 and you ike the B 747-8i there is a model from skyspirit (freeware) this baby is working with the airfile from PMDG and PM inputs via FSUIPC/PM offsets.
All done with only one PC

SIOC is not my Baby but a friend of mine is just preparing a full B 777 cockpit with PM and he is familar with programming incl 'SIOC`but for the FSX
and working on 2 PC's.

I have not yet made up my mind whether to stick PMDG or to jump on the PM because of the frames and some more flexibility.

regards
CJK

attached 2 pics from my cockpit