New Pedalmount
After 10 years of a “temporary” solution, it’s been time to rework the pedalmount. (more…)
Compact MFDs
Until now the MFDs, monitors and the electronics for them have been mounted seperately on the middle console. (more…)
The journey continues
Long time no update on this website – I had too many other things in my mind (family, work and other hobbies).
That changed some weeks ago, when my 6-year old daughter decided she wanted to try out the simulator. (more…)
Workshop Update
Last year I began to redesign my workshop, because I started to get a bit more into woodworking and the 23 sqaremeter are quite small, so I had to think it through. (more…)
Building the seatrail
When I flew the sim I realized that the position of the seat wasn’t completely ok. (more…)
Simroom done
After quite some work the room for the simulator has been finished The screen has been mounted and the carpet is in, additionally I could also do the necessary paint jobs on the wall. Some things will have to be done in the workshop to make working in ther easier My goal…
Screen mounted
The screen for the projection has been mounted on the wall. It’s a cheap IKEA Tupplur screen, tests will follow. (more…)
News of the last 5 years
Our daughter Johanna was born in January, 2012. From this day on, our live change dramatically *g*. The sim had to move out of the children's room and so it was time to adapt the basement. Base work on the simroom has been done. Here's how it looked at the beginning after…
Nearly all lamps working
Yess!
Except the CautionPanel all lamp-outputs of the sim are done and working. Last weekend I finished the ELEC and EPU panel: (more…)
More LEDs – and videos
The selfsoldered LED-Controller are done at last! One is already working inside the left console and lights up importand LEDs like the gear lights. I also made 2 videos of functional parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74L7ht6ErWc Functionality of the magnetic switch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydWge6YLCyw Response times of the DED-LCD
Progress on the right Frontpanel
The right frontpanel has been finished, as I intented to. MFD and DED are fully functioning and display the correct data out of Falcon: Until I manage to build my physical instruments like ADI, RPM, and so on, these data will be displayed on the two MFD-monitors with FalconGauges. Now all important…
The DED Is Working
The DED (DataEntryDisplay) on the right frontpanel is working! First I created the case to mount the LCD to the glareshield and now the data transfer from Falcon is running great!