The danish 727-project

[roppeca]

Very useful info to me... I'm a 737-8 simmer but 727-2 is a great flight deck...looking forward to follow your work !

[AVIATor-Olav]

Looking good Lasse. When do we get to see the rest of the MIP?

[lasseh]

Hello guys.

Here's a "minor" update from a nearly finished captains side MIP.
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Progress is fairly slow at the moment, as I unfortunately don't have the space to build or set up any parts of the simulator in my current apartment. I've also spent the last months on real world flying, and the European ATPL really takes up a lot of your spare time!

However, I managed to put this together the past week. I've used foamalux as previously described to build the panels as well as the bezels. The plates are 5mm thick, which just makes space for the tiny encoders to be well placed between the monitor an the panels.
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Next project will be to interface the tq and the radios.

[AVIATor-Olav]

Great work Lasse! looks really nice! Good to see you're still working on your sim! I did the ATPL theory back in 2000. Had my CPL, Multi, instrument and instructor ratings, the whole lot. Took a lot of time and money that lot! Now I just keep my SEP rating current. I'm planning to start flying gliders this spring. Lots of fun that too!

Keep it up! Cheers!

[lasseh]

Wow, impressive Tor-Olav! It surely cots a lot of money to keep the licenses current. Still have to do the IR, ME and CPL. Used to fly gliders 10 years ago, was great fun!

By the way - did you ever come up with a solution on how to configure the flight director control panel? I was thinking about converting the selector knob to a rotary encoder rather than a switch.

And how's your FE station coming along?

[AVIATor-Olav]

I have interfaced the FD, but not properly. It kind of works, but I'll certainly have to revisit that one. I also have thought of going the encoder route, but I will wire the exsisting switch like an encoder. As described here: http://www.737ng.co.uk/simple%20encoder.pdf
I've done that to the rotary switches on the FE panel.
not much progress on the FE panel to report. I'll definately update my thread when there is!

[Avro748]

I think I sent you a PM a while ago with a possible way of interfacing the Lamps on your F/E panel with the Dreamfleet 727. Have you looked into it?

[AVIATor-Olav]

Hi Avro. Yes I saw your PM a while back, and I appologise for not getting back to you earlier. Just too busy doing other things at the moment. The Sim has a lower priority at the time. Thanks for the pointer though, I'll definately look into it when I get a bit further down the road!