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 Post subject: Pictures that make your wife want to slap you about the head
PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:49 am 
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I guess they ran out of money before they got to a set of decent surround displays. :D



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 Post subject: Re: Pictures that make your wife want to slap you about the
PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:17 pm 
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Totally. That is the only thing stopping me from making a "sim". $$$$
I started building one then realized how much it would cost to complete. The wood is still in the basement, slowly getting used for other things :(
I do have some cockpit parts that can't be re-purposed though... not sure what I'll do about them.


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 Post subject: Re: Pictures that make your wife want to slap you about the
PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:49 pm 
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You could always ship them to me so I can have them lying about piling dust with all my other crap.

SLAP! <----- wife was passing by...



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 Post subject: Re: Pictures that make your wife want to slap you about the
PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:31 am 
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Things like this have made me think and re-think my approach to a home sim.
I am definitely planning to get some of the modular stuff such as radios, mcp and an fmc - but doing the full surround is something, while enticing, I'm starting to think is a bit of a fool's errand.

What's more - whereas I was originally keen to build a 737, 767 or 787 cockpit - based on my habits nowadays (blind VOR/NDB without GPS or any tracking of any kind) I'm seriously thinking about a twin turboprop of some kind - far more engaging flying.



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:38 pm 
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Exactly! Great idea! These home cockpits always seem to have to look like a commercial jet. You never see pictures of home Cessna cockpits!



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 Post subject: Re: Pictures that make your wife want to slap you about the
PostPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:04 am 
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Multi-monitor setups make more sense now. I also wanted to go full-out with a custom cockpit, but you can only fly what the cockpit was designed for. There's no flexibility in gauges or controls. What about single props, dual-quad props, helos, twin jets, quad jets?

Twin jets seems to be a very popular design, but they're screwed if they want to go for a ride in a 747 unless they double-up throttles, starters, fuel pumps, etc.

My CH throttle quadrant is already able to fly quads (speed brake, flaps and 4 throttles). It's when you fly quad-props with individual feather and pitch controls that things get complicated (3 x 4 axis); you could probably use 3 CH throttle quadrants at the same time. :D



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 Post subject: Re: Pictures that make your wife want to slap you about the
PostPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 3:11 am 
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I think if I had the 747 cockpit similar to the one pictured above, I would have no trouble just flying the 747. :)
You could always fire up the laptop to fly the beaver :P



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 Post subject: Re: Pictures that make your wife want to slap you about the
PostPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 8:15 am 
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Nod to Robert, a very good point.
A dedicated cockpit is a beautiful thing but it does tie you down.

Actually - it is for that reason that I am considering a quasi-generic turboprop cockpit because a lot of the instrumentation and controls are the same across many different models. With that I could flip the cockpit from anything starting with a Piper Warrior (fav spot in my heart thanks to BVC), Twotter, or Caravan Amphibian up to a King Air 350 or my tried-and-true Piper Cheyenne.

The choice gives you anywhere from 100-240 knots of speed and a reach of 1000 miles - not to mention the flexibility of flying into many more smaller (and more interesting) airports.

Oh and Cal -That's a triple-7 cockpit.



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 Post subject: Re: Pictures that make your wife want to slap you about the
PostPosted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:12 am 
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Of course if this happened to drop in for free, I couldn't care less about dedicated bla bla bla...

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