Nick1150 Home Cockpit 737NG project in Athens

[Nick1150]

Next steps are:

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

After a long time of flying, thinking and designing my next cockpit building moves, it's now time to act...

So it was time for my FWD OH. I needed it to be PnP. I did took a lot of price quotations, and I found the best to be the SimWorld one, price and support wise.

BUT many I was having issues with my software in the mean time... Project Magenta is a nice soft, but it's an aged program, and because of that it's designers have become arrogant and thus usres issues have been unsolved for ages... I decided to do the shift. The decision was easy. SimWorld had an offer of a free license of ProSim737 together with it's PnP FWD overhead. So I took the time and courage to change from Project Magenta to ProSim.

I booked one Saturday few weeks ago, and arranged no business or family obligations, and started at 08:00 in the morning with a BIG cofee in hand... I said to everyone "just consider me dead this Saturday, I will be too busy tiil the night" I was determined to make my cockpit flyable during the weekend, whatever the cost.

You know what ? To my surprise the ProSim737 setup including the four clients ended at around 10:00, that is 2 hours after I started !!! I had a lot of cofee left in my cup So I did several test flights to see what was my new setup. I had several issues, but with the help of the ProSim guys through their excelent forum, I could solve my issues one by one.

To make the long story short, I am amazed with this software. It's simple, it does the job without conflicts, there are people behind it who support the users without many words and diva style, and it is very much expandable in every respect. What was I doing with PM so much time ? I lost my time.... Let's hope that the ProSim crue stays focus and not make the same mistakes PM did....

As in every setup there are few issues that remain unsolved. Unsurprisingly those issues have to do with one and only one supplier I had issues from the beginning. My cockpit has parts from all around the world. I have purchased parts from almost every part of the world, but this guy was the worst choice I have ever made. So stay away from him. If you want his name, I can PM it to you, but at least for the time being I will not put the name in my thread.

So it's ProSim era...

(to be continued)...

[Nick1150]

After several weeks of flying with my new ProSim soft, yesterday I received my new SimWorld PnP FWD overhead panel. Below you can see unboxing pictures. The quality is more than one would expect. Congratulations SimWorld, that is a piece of art !!!! I will try to mount the overhead today on my FDS shell. I connected the OH on my server yesterday and one thing I can tell you. You can't get more PLUG & PLAY than this!

Just plug and play, as the words say... No windows drivers, its a HID device and it is recognised on its own. The only thing to do is open ProSim configuration window (one click) and check the SimWorld OH compatibility box (second click)... That's it... the damn thing works great, no .ini files to change, no SIOC language to deal with, not even one driver installation needed!!!! This is the best buy I have ever had. Excelent quality, fair price, and user friendliness.

Pics follow, hopefully a video and few more pics after mounting on my shell:

Great packaging


Excelent interior protection




This is how we first met










This is a compact design and construction






Close ups...










More to come...

[fsaviator]

sou to eipa re megale! Bravo.
Good news. Are you going to FSWeekend?

[Nick1150]

sou to eipa re megale! Bravo.
Good news. Are you going to FSWeekend?

Geia soy file !!!!

Not this year, I am afraid... too busy...

[CorTed]

Nick, very impressive overhead. Did you get the one with backlight and pro switches?
How long did it take from order to delivery?

Ted

[Nick1150]

Nick, very impressive overhead. Did you get the one with backlight and pro switches?
How long did it take from order to delivery?

Ted

Yep, That's it, locking switches, landing lights switches and backlighting included. It took me 2 months from order to delivery to receive it.

[tiburon]

Hi Nick, I would be very interested to know how the backlighting is implemented. Is there a chance of a picture of the insides you could post ?

Martin

[Nick1150]

Sorry no pictures yet.

You can have an idea here, just a short video... Online flight LTBA LGAV - YouTube

[tiburon]

Thanks, I have the Simworld overhead but backlighting is a pain. I'm curious how they've tackled it.

[OmniAtlas]

This thread is an inspiration. Bookmarking.