How would i go about making my own CDU/FMC

[Geremy Britton]

They realy are very good, very clean white, and as long as you apply them strongly dont come off unless you realy scratch them off. Realy fast delivery on them too! I can't remember my font but its the standard type that matches the sort of lettering you'd see on panels in a real aircraft.

[Geremy Britton]

Alex, they won't manufacture the exact boeing font. They are not an aviation company. Its just a case of matching and you can match pretty close.

http://www.letraset.com/design/shopd...Bold+Condensed

That link is about right. The helvetica font at 3mm for panel annotation and 5mm for the larger font for the panel names. £1.69. Can't realy go wrong can you for what you want them for.

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Cheers pal, your a star! Will def use these!

Nice one!

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Just out of curiosity has anyone on here made there own 737 comm nav radio?

[mpl330]

Gez, are you using Proj Magenta?
If so then it will be really easy to do the CDU/FMC screen, I run the output on one pc that only has the small screens attached ( I cheated and used a Y cable so that I can have a display on both even though they are identical)
Cheers
Mike

[Geremy Britton]

The y cable spilt is an idea actually. I do have two screens the same size for this purpose. I don't have project magenta and i beleive a perfect sim can be built without it personaly. I don't forsee myself ever purchasing it.

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By the way here is the template I have designed from scratch, does this look reasonably real enough, any thoughts would be great?

UPDATED: COM AND NAV

[Mike.Powell]

Sorry....does anyone know the Boeing font name?

Gables Engineering, a company that makes radio control heads for Boeing use, uses Futura Medium font.

http://www.gableseng.com/fact_sheets...20Rev%2002.pdf

[NigelD]

Sorry....does anyone know the Boeing font name?

Alex,
According to the man on this site:

http://home.hccnet.nl/jwopdenakker/building%20tip.html

It's either Futura MD BT or Futura MD condensed BT.

Means nothing to me, but he's done some very ncie work! Can't remember where I got the link - he's probably a member here anyway...

Nigel.

[Mike.Powell]

Another possible approach to labelling panels is to use self-made decals.

http://www.beldecal.com/inkjet_decals.cfm