I am an idiot - and not a small one....

[notgotaclue]

I have finished wiring up the overhead, looks pretty good - better than the photo
I am now in the process of wiring up the TQ, which is another pig of a job to tick off the list.
Allan.

The Overhead....
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How my pit looks at the moment...
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[bas_v]

Looks great, Allan.

[notgotaclue]

Looks great, Allan.

Cheers me dears...
It is coming along brilliantly. It even make people motion sick and they have to leave...How cool is that....
It is now getting so real that I was messing about buzzing control towers as you do, and my wing clipped the ground when I did a steep turn. I actually screamed when I heard the grinding noise...
I also did a short night flight, and when it was over and I left the sim it took me a while to realise it was still daytime and Mrs Notgotalue was cooking lunch.
Allan.

[mach7]

That is an amazing piece of work...very impressive!

[Neil Hewitt]

Fantastic project, Allan. You've achieved great things in a short time!

One quick question, if you'll indulge me again, about the seats, since yours are very similar to mine. From the photo, it appears as if the seats are resting / bolted directly to the sim floor - that is, that there's nothing between the floor and the seat rails to add extra height - is that the case? Or is that just a visual illusion?

I'm agonising over the same thing at the moment. My seats are pretty deep because they've from an MPV and have a rotation mechanism as well as the standard rails. But from what I could read, the distance from floor to the seat pan in most jets is around 500-600mm (in a neutral position without adjustment). Were I to put the seat rails directly on the floor I'd have about 350-400mm height, so I built a plinth for the seat to go on - but the slightly closer-to-lying-down position you're in when driving a car feels more natural to me for getting at the rudder pedals than a sitting-up-straight position. Not sure which way to go

[notgotaclue]

Neil,
The seats are attached to the plinth that came with the aircraft, I did have to cut the plinth down a bit as they were too high for the car seats.
I think people get far too focussed on getting the measurements to the nearest millimetre, with mine I just kept cutting away until it felt comfortable and I could reach the yoke and rudder pedals. I did have a problem with the yoke as it was far too high and I had to sink it into the floor, what fun that was. (especically when I had my recent problems and had to take the floor apart to get at the yoke).
There is not much point in using any of my measurements as they are nowhere near real, as I said I just went with what was comfortable.
I have attached a few photos of the layout.

Allan.

PS> notice the dog bed in the back for when my little friend joins me for a flight to Spain.

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[Neil Hewitt]

Got it, thanks Allan!

I'm going with a smaller plinth than I had at first intended, to get a seat pan height at about 400mm. I think that will be about right, and if not, I'll just play about with it until it is

Mind you, there's a bunch of work still to be done on mine before it's approaching the seat installation point. Better be getting on with it...

[flEyedot]

I opened this thread expecting a laugh or two. After reading, it's just dawned on me I did the EXACT same thing two days ago on my 727-200 sim. Bugger! (I guess that makes me an even bigger idiot for not realising it!)

edit - Apologies, I just realised I also seem to have dug up a fairly old thread, on my first post too!

[notgotaclue]

Update - I have not posted here for ages.
I have now ditched the business jet shell and am building a 737 shell. I built the sidewalls using a plan I found on 'tinternet and it is all enclosed. Still got to build the overhead enclosure but that is on my todo list for next week - I don't know why I didn't build the overhead enclosure before I put the seats, yoke and TQ in place - Now I have to take them all out. Is it a part of the home cockpit builders brain that don't function correctly and we enjoy re-doing work we have already done.
Allan.
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