737IowaCity

Hi Everybody,
It has been almost 5 months since I started following with great interest the forum here at mycockpit. Reading a threat posted by John Combs I was inspired to beging my dream: Last month I bought a 737-200 cockpit and my plan is to build a 737NG with your help guys.
Project is just starting and the only thing that I have now is the energy to start searching and learning all about this.
I will keep you posted with pictures and will try to share averything learning in this process.
Right now I am working on bringing the cockpit from florida to Iowa city. Also I am trying to find a place I can put the cockpit for the next 8 months. At that time I will be back to Saint Louis, MO, My hometown.
Regards
Jetpilot

Welcome, and she is AWESOME! You will definitely enjoy working on her!

Impressive start. Good luck with the transport. To bad we have to wait another 8 months to see this sim coming to live.

LOVE THE SHELL REAL FlightDeck!!, Wish they were more freely available in the UK :( :(

Does your storage location have to be indoors?

Doug

Hi guys. Thank you for your words and support. I will keep you posted of any step on this building process.
Doug, I would ideally like to have an indoors location I could spend some time working on the cockpit, specially now that winter is comin. But initially it can be any place that I can just put the cockpit. I am looking for a flat bed trailer to bring her back from Florida and if she end up sitting outdors during the winter I would be buying something to cover her. Any advice about how to how to handle her during transport would be highly appreciated.
Roberto

Nice !!!!

Welcome to MC.org Roberto

I do not think that there is something to take care during transport, after all your cockpit is used to travelling in worst conditions, but then again I do not have that experience. Many, definately more experienced will follow to tell you about this.

Welcome again and keep posting pictures :cool:

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Hi guys,
Does anybody have a good estimate of the cockpit's weight? She is stripped off.
For transporting I will install four 8" (900 lbs rated) casters. The trailer I will be using is overdeck 86" wide and I am planning to pull the cockpit up like any regular car. If somebody has suggestions they are welcome

Hi guys,
It has been some time since my last post.
Unfortunately my real life is quite busy with just few time left for simulation.
As you can see in the PICs I already brought the cockpit from Florida.
I just can say that it was a challenge but really funny experience. Everything when fine. I was legal in all my dimensions (W102, H12'7"). When I started my trip in Florida I was quite anxious about police on my way. By the time I left Atlanta (Second state I went through) I was quite confident (At that point I had at least 10 or more patrols on my way an none of them said anything. I even fueled on a couple of stations with the officer filling up next pump and no problem at all). I end up going through 7 states without any single hassle.
Every place I stopped I always had someone approaching me curious about the content under that blue tarp.
I thought part of the success was having the cockpit cover (I just moved from one place to another, in Florida, and I was interesting how it caught everybodies' eyes) .
I am also uploading some pictures of the nose radome (I when last November to pick it up in Arkansas (Another funny adventure). On these PICs I am holding the radome with my arms up (It is light but no easy to move (Because of the size). I was walking the radome in to the garage and my wife was guiding me (Left, right, front, stop.....bla bla bla)
When time allows I will try to post more PICs and eventually I will start a website.
In the mean time if anybody needs any feedback about moving a real cockpit just ask.
I really appreciate the input I have had from many of you here.

Roberto


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