Nick1150 Home Cockpit 737NG project in Athens

[Nick1150]

Hi to all,

This weekend all of my family, that is my wife, my two daughters and me, were all ill (flue), except the dog... There were of course good news out of it. I managed to find the time to finish my FDS interior liners and my map lights installation.

A short youtube video:

Home cockpit 737 FDS interior liners just installed - YouTube

and few shots... hope you like it. It now makes a difference when you fly...

The parcel arrived palletized, great packaging FDS!










The installation takes long even with the FDS instructions. One must take his or hers time. All items are mirrored, which means that the same item is ment to be installed in the F/O side and in the CPT side. Sometimes you get confused and you start again. This item was sent as a mistake two times, that is both for the F/O side. I am expecting a replacement from FDS soon.



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[Nick1150]

Almost 3 days after, the shell is now ready from the inside too. What a great view and feel!

















Next to follow is my triple projectors setup with a curved screen and few details, like metal floor, pedestal fire panel, and few bits and bobs that I have in my mind, somewhere between these I will install an aft overhead too....

Thanks for watching,

[fsaviator]

Zilia.... tin eho!

Looks good Nick! I hope to post updates this weekend on mine... you will be very surprised.

On another note, Marina "pire to diploma"!

[Nick1150]

Hi Warren,

Great news then!

Thanks for the kind words, looking forward your next visit in Athens.

Regards,

[goof2092]

Hi Nick,
great to see all these pictures. Just took delivery of the FDS shell. I also have the FDS MIP.
Just a question on the access to the back of the MIP. What do you do when you have to go behind to do some works? I see the shell rests on the entire structure side to side and front to back. I would assume you can 'wheel' out some parts but then the shell would not have enough base to stand on?
I ask this as my construction is far from even the middle so I spend a lot of time behind the MIP. I like your design and would like to adapt it but need some insight on this aspect.

thanks

Anthony

[Nick1150]

Hello Anthony,

Yes you are right. There are issues for accesing the back of the MIP, but only in the F/O side. Everything else is easily accesible and it is occassionaly too. Unfortunately in order to fit the 4 clients-lap tops I had to choose between accesibility in that part of the MIP, and space saving. I choosed the second, but I like the compact feeling I have on my cockpit.

Hope that helps.

Regards

[goof2092]

Ah, thanks Nick.
Space is not too much trouble for me so I might make 'drawers' of the middle section while the shell sits on two opposite outer sections shaped like so: '[ ]'.

Cheers

Anthony

[Nick1150]

Hi to all,

Just an update...

CP flight audio panels and fire panel installed on my pedestal... Just as a side note I was expecting a better quality from CPflight for the audio panels, since the volume switces are not steady and move like crazy around, like they are dismantled.

Next the cargo and wx panels plus the rudder panel from CP flight to finish my pedestal setup, and of course I am already on the way for 3 BenQ MW814ST projectors when my wallet permits...

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[Sean Nixon]

Looking great as usual Nick.

[Nick1150]

In Greece we say "the enemy of good is the better", so after ordering my 3 projectors from BenQ due the end of March 2013, and also after ordering 2 solenoid starter switches and two magnetic anti-ice and yaw switches from SimWorld for my overhead which again are due to the end of March 2013, I was thinking to make some changes, minor some would say, but important to me....

So I unmounted my overhead, the overhead interior FDS liners and start rewiring from scratch.... OMG this was a nightmare !!! Kilometers of wires have been used since 2007 in this cockpit.... At start it seemed to be a straight forward procedure, but I have forgot how many cables I have use, but then again as said the enemy of good is the better, so I started with few things I had on the list...







I mounted 4 speakers on the roof, 2 on each side. 2 of them will be used only for the call outs, given that I have already installed a copy of ProSim sound in one client from which only call outs will be played, giving the a touch of cockpit reality. The other 2 speakers will again be connected to another client, playing some other sounds that I have in my mind, but I will experiment first.



In the meantime I ordered the CPflight wx, cargo and rudder panels which do complete my pedestal, and together with a fly engravity pedestal bay which is also coming home this week, I have a full pedestal... These photos are from my old setup, soon my new one.





Finally, I am wiring 3 VGA and 3 power cables for the projectors to come...





Finally, during the next days, my chairs and TQ will be unmounted too, in order to mount metallic flooring, almost as the "real one"



More to come soon...