Nick1150 Home Cockpit 737NG project in Athens

[fsaviator]

Great news Nick.

Can't wait to see the progress.

I look forward to seeing/flying the full setup with you in the summer when I come to Greece!

Warren

[bas_v]

Looks good so far... You must be feeling like a little boy at christmas

[Nick1150]

Just updating my project...

After more than a week only yesterday due to heavy snow in Athens I was stuck at home so I found some time to start braking my project to pieces to make space for the FDS nose section to fit in my SIM room...

These are the last photos before I start, just in memory of my "old" cockpit:















To be continued...

[Nick1150]

So I started with Weber seats, yoke columns and CH yokes






After that the RevolutionProducts TQ




Then the CDU bay and all PCs from the back








After that the MIP and the base including the pedestal and the cockpit base bass shakers




So after a few hours my sim room was empty and ready for the shell...

I hope I find some time during the next days to start the shell. More photos to follow.

[Nick1150]

Before....

That's the my space ready before the nose section built starts, and in a way this is where the curved screen will be located in the future:

Center


Left


Right



In the backgroup all gear is stored one upside the other, waiting for the shell and the base to be built again...








It is very difficult to have a non working cockpit, it hurts when it is flyable....

[Nick1150]

In a slow pace, day by day, one hour per day in the nights, because of lack of time, I managed to build the shell and finally took my measurements of the new cockpit base, including the space needed for the ACE dual linked yokes. My main two obstacles are the fact that I cannot build it inside the room because of the the small space left with all the gear around and the nose section in place, and also because I will build it in my garage I have to split it into small pieces so that it fits the elevator... My cockpit is on the 4th floor, so I can avoid lifting it through the stairs... Finally I am designing my cockpit base in such a way for possible (If needed) motion in the future...

So here is the shell.... next stop my cockpit base...








The two front pieces are missing. This was the only way to fit the Cockpitsonic MIP in the shell without cutting the shell or the MIP. Sacrifices must be made...




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[Nick1150]

After one month of constructing and designing from the start my sim, yesterday Sunday 4th of March 2012, I started building my "new" home cockpit with brand new modules, like FDS 737 shell, ACE dual linked yokes, J-rails and dual linked rudders from Revolution Simproducts, upgrage from EL version to PRO version of CP flight MCP and dual EFIS, and a new cockpit base with rubber wheels. The sim is not flyable yet, and needs few hours for connecting and testing, but hopefully soon I will post new photos in action...

Things left to do...

Plexiglass on cockpit windows
Interior liners from FDS
Triple ceiling projectors plus curved screen
FWD and AFT overheads
and hundrends of minor things...

A short video and few photos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw2kT...ature=youtu.be


The cockpit base in 5 parts, so it can fit in the elevator:
Note: The ACE rudders need exactly 20cms from bottom of the yokes base to top of cockpit floor for those who want to pre-build a base.

















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[Nick1150]

Few hours after and the shell is on the base. The hard things were made succesfully. The harder to come...















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[Nick1150]

More pics...

Fitting the yokes...






Making last adjustments including the rudders...









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[Nick1150]

More pics...











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