Nick1150 Home Cockpit 737NG project in Athens

[Nick1150]

The glare shield...







You can see that the cockpitsonic MIP is few cms bigger than the shell


This where the PCs will be hosted:



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[Nick1150]

Late last night the seats were mounted too.

Too tired to go on... need a sleep to get strenght. Hopefully after work tommorow I can go on with the rudders, CDU bay, TQ and pedestal...









The J-rails:





Coming again soon...

[fsaviator]

Very nice, Nick! The front looks like a stealth fighter... Is that new FDS technology?

I take it that was the modification you needed to make for the MIP stand to fit?

I also see your rudder pedals arrived. I hope to be in Greece first or second week of July. We'll do some flying!

Warren

[Nick1150]

Thanks Warren,

I choosed not to cut the MIP stand for the time being. This gives me the stealth look as you say LOL !!! If I see that this creates issues to the projectors screen I will have to cut the small triagles of the CS MIP.

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[Nick1150]

Updating my project...

All gear is mounted where it is supposed to. All settings have been made. Rudders, yokes, new MCP and EFIS, J rails, etc have been tuned. A custom made small drawer furniture has been made and mounted inside the nose of my shell for my 4 laptops-clients. 3 wagon rows have been created and mounted on the ceiling for my future triple projector setup. Online (SB4) has been installed in my lower EICAS client, software upgrades have been made, several changes have been made and tested, and now I CAN FLY!!!

As side note I have configured WOL (Wake On LAN) utility for all my cockpit PCs, that is one server and four clients, and the magic thing is that when I switch on my server and then press FLY NOW on the FSX screen my clients wake on lan and startup on their own. Wideserver then opens all software needed for my cockpit on its own. In other words my cockpit is ready on the gate of my choice with the push of a button and one click!!!

As a concequence I wanted to do the same when shutting down. With the help of my good friend Warren (FSaviator) I can now shutdown all PCs (including the server) with a combination of keyboard keys. Then FSUIPC arranges to close GRACEFULLY (as Warren says )all programs and shuts down it self. WOW that's a great relief.... I start my cockpit (5 PCs & a projector) with one button and one click and I shut it down with one keyboard press !!!! Unbelievable!!!

Moreover again with the help of FSaviator, I discovered the existance of "input director". A very usefull freeware for managing network PCs with one keyboard and one mouse. Now I can have control of all my PCs without the need of opening the lid of my laptops-clients, which are closed and hidden in the nose section anyway. Great find Warren !!!

Next steps are:

FWD and AFT overheads
3 projectors and a curved screen
Interior liners for my shell

Thanks MyCockpit.org for hosting this thread, which is like my cockpit site for me.

A short video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w-D7vjATaM#ws

And pics...

My cockpit is now powered by 3 cables only. One mains power, one ethernet cable and one telephone cable. Simple, all hubs and switches are "hidden" in the nose section on a custom made furniture I built:














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[Nick1150]

On the ceiling I now have my old projector, but as you can see I built 3 wagon rows where 3 usual projector mounts can travel and thus be able to fine tune all axis when my 3 projectors will be purchased:














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[Nick1150]

My cockpit in details:












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[Nick1150]

Thanks MyCockpit.org

[fsaviator]

WOW!

Looks great Nick.

[Sean Nixon]

Hi Nick

Your cockpit is looking great, you're streets ahead of me now!

I notice you are running laptops as your client PC's. What are the spec on them, particularly the graphics solutions, and how do they run the PM displays? It's something I'd thought about. I tried an Atom based netbook, but it was terrible. I'm wondering how a 2nd generation Intel i3 with HD3000 graphics would do?

Sean