Transavia 737-700 Cockpit

[fsaviator]

Now that's nice. Can't wait to see them in black!

Warren

[capetonian]

Hi guys,

A quick update, not much has happened on the flightsim side fir a while as I have been massively busy at work, last weekend I bought a 32: screen home from the office with me for the weekend just to see what it is like flying with a bigger screen , .... wow, the difference is amazing. My son complained that it really sicked trying to fly the sim with a joystick balanced on ones leg, so I got some scrap MDF and pine and went outside for 10 minutes, the result is a butt-ugly but damned effective support for the CH yoke. This will do nicely until the 'real' yokes are built.

Here a few pics from last weekend:









.... now I have a three day weekend to work on the sim and some graphic stuff that I am working on.

[SAS541]

Hi guys,

My son complained that it really sucked trying to fly the sim with a joystick balanced on ones leg, so I got some scrap MDF and pine and went outside for 10 minutes, the result is a butt-ugly but damned effective support for the CH yoke.

Man that is almost exactly the same as my butt-ugly support for my CH Yoke!!

Check your PM's, as i sent you a message asking for advice on building.

Thanks.

Regards
Ben

[Anderson/SBSP]

Very nice!!!

[Nick1150]

Not ugly at all !!!!

Until the sim pit is ready, ugly stages will come

[capetonian]

Thanks for all the nice words guys ... it gives one a little more motivation at times .

Ben, look me up on Skype (dakleton) or on MSN, the aforementioned nickname at hotmail.com.

Now.... where did I put that bloody saw ....

[capetonian]

Oef , .. sometimes I get into these 'build-dips' and I really don;t get any work done on the sim at all, .. it's not that I don't want to do anything, I have a list of things to do longer than a roll of toilet paper but I tend to sit and ponder for hours... how am I going to do this, . and that, .. and before I know it it's midnight and I have to hit the sack to get ready for an early start the next day.

Now I had a few days off finally, .. but I have been so busy for the last few weeks, with every day being practically a 13 hour day..... en I spent the first two days of this 4 day break doing absolutely nothing ........ a waste of time actually.... but still, ..
Anyway, to cut a long story short... I got down to work today, the lighting panels have been bugging me, so I decided to tackle them. And do some other small things to the sim.

First a few pics from Yesterday, ... Knobs, .loads of them, .. and loads more to make.....








As you see some of them did not come out of the molds properly or has air bubbles, but I am making loads so I can turf the ones that are not good enough to use.

[capetonian]

My desk at 10am this (Sunday) morning, . yes, this was recently tidied up but I sat here till 2am this morning soldering LEDS to wires.




Take a deep breath ... and here we go , ... I sawed two strips of 8mm MDF 48,5 cm's x 8cm.s. One edge I rounded off with an electric sander.


Oeps, forgot to take pics... test fitting the right lighting panel


...starting the left one ......


... test fitting the panel that now needs to be fitted with knobs and pots...


.... the left one again .....

[capetonian]

......the wired pots .....


....... wired, fit, screwed and ready to go......


....... tada .......

But there's something missing .......
YES! that's it , . those half round semi profile like thinggies above the panels .... you know what I mean ....

Yes! Those! they might not be 1:1 737 size... but ****, they're close enough for me ..... they're drying at the moment, tomorrow a lick of paint over the whole jig and then the panels can be fitted out with LEDS for the back lighting and screwed into place...

[capetonian]

and to op it all off...



New LEDS for the gear lights. I have a curious problem with the CPMIP737 board. If I do a lights test on the ground, everything works, as soon as I turn the lights off the left gear down LED does not come on , .. only if I cycle the gear, UP >> Down then the left annunciator lights up again, . .I know of at least one other person who has this problem. Anybody else with this problem? I guess I will just hook up both main gear down annunciators to the right output, although it's not perfect, it'll do.

Well, thanks for looking