Building the seatrail
When I flew the sim I realized that the position of the seat wasn’t completely ok. (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…
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…
New Simputer
After 6 years a new simputer was obtained - the old one was not able to give a smooth flying feeling. Since I don't plan to buy a new rig in the next years, I decided to get something more "high-end"ish. ASUS P5B Motherboard (front left) Intel Core2Duo E6600 2.4GHz CPU (front…
First MDF including output
At last something is working as I planned it! The left MFD in "operational" state: And from the "pilot's view":
Monitors for the MFDs
Today I got my 2nd 6,5" TFT VGA Monitor for my MFDs! The package also included the missing inverter of the first one. I couldn't wait to test the whole thing. I connected everything as seen above, turned on the power - NOTHING :-( Just like so often, something didn't work ok…
Glareshield finished
The glareshield has been finished! Now I have a place to mount all the indexers, warning lights and the DED...
Lights on!
The indexer ligths, which give status info about Angle-Of-Attack and air refueling, are done. I got the housings from Dave Scott long time ago (thx, Dave!), and now I found the time to insert the leds:
Wiring going on
The next panels are done: TWS PRIME, TWS AUX, GEAR, HUD, AIR COND, CMDS, SNSR PWR, ELEC, EPU, SIM1
Inputs at last
Now, since the "hardware"-part of panelmaking is done, I could start with connecting the panels to the GammaRay-Inputcard. Both MFDs, the ICP and the MISC panel are working, and move the corresponding switches/buttons in Falcon:AF. Until the end of August, I plan to have all panels connected an working.
The last panels
Except MANTRIM, all panels have been finished. The UHF has some minor glitches, nevertheless it doesn't look bad:
Panels nearly completed
Except of 3 (UHF, MANTRIM, FLTCTRL), all panels have the lettering mounted: All the knobs which are not replicas of the original ones, have been painted gray. The black and white stripes are painted by hand, so it doesn't look very spectacular...
MasterCaution Switch
Years ago I got a couple of buttons from my cousin (thx, Alex!) I wanted to use inside the pit. One of them was perferct for the MasterCaution switch. I also got a transparency used for tinting car windows, so the lettering of the button will not be visible when not lit.…
Panel Redesign
The panel update is going on quite well. I managed to install most of the lettering on the lightplates...
Panel Installation
The last days I managed to redo my panels (more…)