Beechcraft Baron 58 Home cockpit

[Madsaint]

Hello everyone! I'm absolutely new to this forum, but I wanted to share with you my Beechcraft simpit project.
Since A couple of months I started building my own home cockpit. I'm a flight simmer for a long time, ever since I started working on planes (737, 747, 767) as an engineer for the KLM back in 1999.
By now I'm no longer a plane engineer, but still very much onto flight sims, but now GA is my favourite. And therefore I decided to build a Beechcraft
Baron 58 home cockpit. Well, Baron 58-ish, because the dimensions of the cabin are not exactly as the original, and for now I use saitek switch panels and Panel builder for the instruments.
It's all new to me, and I want to start flying again asap, so I will install handmade switch panels closer to the orirginal gradually.

I have a blog I try to update every time I worked I worked on the cockpit.

https://beechcraftflightsim.wordpress.com/ (http://beechcraftflightsim.wordpress.com/)

I hope you like it, and if there's any comments, hints or tips, always appreciated!!

[Madsaint]

I should have posted this somewhere else I think, my apologies!

[Buddym]

Nonsense! This is a great place to say hi. Awesome work, I look forward to seeing you post more!

Buddy

[Madsaint]

Thank you Buddy! I did some more work on the cockpit today, the roof and part of the window frame.

https://beechcraftflightsim.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/window-and-roof/

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[Geremy Britton]

Excellent project, thank you for sharing it with the community here! :)

[Madsaint]

Thank you Geremery! I've now networked two pc's and start with software tomorrow. I'll update the blog soon when I've achieved a bit more.

[Kerbo]

Great looking simpit you got there, thanks for sharing.

[Madsaint]

Thank you Kerbo, it's not only looking great, I actually got all control and gauges to work today as well :)

http://beechcraftflightsim.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/all-systems-are-go/

[Kerbo]

Congrats. :)

[Geremy Britton]

Thanks for the link, looks like a great project, and very compact! :)

[Madsaint]

Thanks for the link, looks like a great project, and very compact! :)

Well, it IS compact, but I altered the dimensions a little, just so it is a little less compact and/or claustrophobic... ;)

[Madsaint]

Added a nose today, It's getting less compact evrytime I work on it, I'm afraid.... ;)

https://beechcraftflightsim.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/the-nose/

[ellif]

I wonder the best measures of those : the distance from floor to the base of the cockpit and the distance from chair to the base of the cockpit