BUILDING A NEW CESSNA 172 COCKPIT

**iwik** · 05-30-2011, 05:56 AM

Vectro,
Thanks a million, i looked at your pics but missed those. been hunting around for a while to see what others have done. Im doing a C177RG.
I havnt seen a real set of flap controls, but can you tell me by using a servo the indicator will travel in an arc.Is this what happens in the Real Indicator.
I had tried to find Pic of Simkits ones with no luck, Your pics were great.
Regards
Les

**Cessna172sim** · 05-30-2011, 06:03 AM

Originally Posted by iwik

Vectro,
Thanks a million, i looked at your pics but missed those. been hunting around for a while to see what others have done. Im doing a C177RG.
I havnt seen a real set of flap controls, but can you tell me by using a servo the indicator will travel in an arc.Is this what happens in the Real Indicator.
I had tried to find Pic of Simkits ones with no luck, Your pics were great.
Regards
Les

The indicator works exactly like the real thing. First you take for example 10 degrees flaps and the indicator follows with a little delay. If you use IOCards and SIOC you will need their servo card to control the servo (indicator):
http://www.opencockpits.com/catalog/...ml?cPath=21_31

+ Master card:
http://www.opencockpits.com/catalog/...ml?cPath=21_27

As said, we use Simkits gauges so there is a place for flaps and flaps indicator in Simkits CCU II board as a default. The indicator and the flaps handle are then calibrated in Simkits TRC calibration program.

Check out for example this video (min 5:14 and 6:20) and you can see how the indicator works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkv_FlWSe9Y

**iwik** · 05-30-2011, 02:53 PM

Thanks again Vectro,
Reply much appreciated and Happy Flying.
Les

**yogev** · 04-21-2012, 09:39 AM

Hi all,

For a long time I didn’t get into this forum , well I would like to share with you my last progress of the Cessna 172 glass cockpit simulator .

Here is some pictures I made for you.

Still have a lot of work to do, enjoy .