Nick1150 Home Cockpit 737NG project in Athens

[Nick1150]

Thanks Spiro and Nax for your kind words

Spiro next time we fly together I have a small but very important change for you .... The columns are already made and do not move at all, landings are now easier and more succesful than before, and in the next following days I am waiting a second CH Eclipse yoke for the F/O side, which will actually make the F/O side 90% independent and operational !!! When I receive the 2nd yoke I will make few flights only from the F/O side to double check that this is a fact. I am saying 90% and not 100% because the only thing that is missing right now for the F/O is a 2nd CDU which I will purchase (used) sometime in the near future....

Best regards and have a great day,

[Nick1150]

Few pics and a video from yesterday flight... the more I fly, the more I get excited !!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z_pZFPDanY

[Nick1150]

Upgraded to PM 486 version, a 2nd CDU is now installed, a 2nd CH Eclipse yoke is also installed, so the F/O side is 100% operative !!!

A short video from a yesterday online test flight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3awqDPCh5M

[JWS]

Hey Nick,

nice video. Love the cabin layout (which can be seen when the camera points to the back). A typical BBJ as far as I can tell.

JWS

[Nick1150]

Hi to all,

Long time to post here. Unfortunately family issues kept me away from this hobby...

Recently my server crashed and the only way to go on was to upgrade. So a new i7 with 12 GBs of RAM is now purchased. My aim was to upgrade to FSX instead of FS9.

Good news first...

The difference in visuals is like the difference between day and night.... It really is surprising to see the external visuals at 50 fps with almost all graphics settings in 80%... No addon sceneries, no addon textures, no weather or cloud addons, nothing, just raw FSX, and the outcome is unbeleivable !!!!!

On the other hand I have many unsolved issues. You see the problem is that FS9 has many modules, scripts, and in general many solutions for our too expensive hardware modules, so there is always a way to fix things in FS9. On the contrary FSX is not the prefered platform for the hardware and software home cockpits developers so there is a gap of knowledge out there.

Did you know that the stock B737-800 in FSX does not have taxi lights ? At least mine does not... I lost 3 hours to realize that, playing around with a switch, a leo bodnard card and FSUIPC....

Did you know that the Xponder of the CPflight module cannot set the mode to Charlie or Standby, like it used to do in FS9 ? Actually it seems that this is not a CPflight issue, just an issue of SB4.....

2 or 3 more issues like the above still are unsolved, but then again wasn't it like this after my first installation of FS9 years back ?

I will try to record a short video again and show you the difference.

Regards,

Nick

[nax228]

good to see you back and congrats with the new PC.

[fsaviator]

Nick! welcome back! Hope all is well. Your sim looks great! I can't wait to see it up close.

I'll be in town in two weeks... I'll give you a call.

Do you need me to bring anything over from the US? Let me know.

Warren

[Nick1150]

Nick! welcome back! Hope all is well. Your sim looks great! I can't wait to see it up close.

I'll be in town in two weeks... I'll give you a call.

Do you need me to bring anything over from the US? Let me know.

Warren

Hi Warren,

Looking forward to seeing you here my friend. That's excelent news !!!!!!

Yes please, can you please bring me an FDS 737 shell with you please ? hahaha just kidding of course.

I will pm you warren,

Take care.

Nick

[fsaviator]

Hi Warren,

Yes please, can you please bring me an FDS 737 shell with you please ? hahaha just kidding of course.

Nick

I'm not sure I can fit that in my luggage...

See you soon.

[Nick1150]

Hi Warren,

Looking forward to seeing you here my friend. That's excelent news !!!!!!

Yes please, can you please bring me an FDS 737 shell with you please ? hahaha just kidding of course.

I will pm you warren,

Take care.

Nick

Hey Warren,

I will arrange a 40ft container for you