New X-Plane 10

Hi All,
Eventhough I can't continuer my sim cockpit project at these days, My new X-Plane 10 arrived just 5 days ago from Noel. It was really a great gift for me. I had the chance to fly with 747-400 using its FMC options and testing the new features of  X-Plane 10.
I will share some photos and videos. And I am planning to prepare some tutorials as well for beginners.

Keep following ...
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to All .

My favorite pages

I think it is better to collect some links and pages that I liked very much in this post. Those which I found very professionnal and want to put them in my favorite all the time.


Here they are:

http://www.throttletek.com/
http://users.skynet.be/jcordon/cockpit/index2.htm


if you want to fly with a 737, here is the good simulation site:
http://www.vdbroeck.net/

Pieces Arrived

Hi,

I am glad that I found almost all the necessary pieces during my Turkey holiday. I love my country since it is always possible to find almost everything easily even they are very special ones. I will share the photos and some addresses with you in this blog.
I hope I can upload the details this weekend.

o2tr

Slow Progress

Hi,
Unfortunately, i got not much progress on my construction. I was dealing about the change of my car and about searching a bigger house for my cockpit !
But during my holiday in Turkey, I am sure about finding and buying all small pieces such as rotators, switches leds and other small parts. On my return, I hope I will share more details and photos about the construction.
For those who go to holiday,
Have a nice holiday...

Meterials & pieces used during this project

In this article, all meterials used during this project are listed with their costs.

MIP Meterials

• MIP Support Panels       (different size wooden plaques)      - no cost
• MIP Paint
• Support Panels metal fixing parts
• Panel Coating
• Glare Shield Coating
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Seats

• Two old car seats                - no cost
• Textile to coat

Yoke System

• wooden construction for the support of Yoke           - no cost
• plastic tube + adapter                                              - 1,00 €
• cables from Yoke to controle card> 
• 2 Trim switches 
• 1 Autopilot disengage switch

Throttle System - (non-motorized)

• 2 Linear Pot for engines       (from an old joystick)           -   1,00 €
• 2 Reverse switches
• Throttle body MDF(10x120)
• Illuminations

Having knowledge about ports

I collect some information about manipulation of parallel and serial ports since I will need some more options like feedbacks or more connections.
Eventhough using those ports are old fashion, i found it is still usefull for some special effects.


some exaples of using ports with PPJoy utility.
http://www.etheli.com/simulator/simulator.html

Hands on

As of  13 April I started to craft. I found many different types of woods and collected them. Seriously I made the calculations for the cuttings and the desing of the cockpit shell.
I will give you details in the construction page.

Please follow up...

Two seats found for my cockpit

I found two old car seats last week. They were thrown away by one of my neighbor and I saw them luckily while passing by with my car. And for the captain seat it has an arm support as well. They were washed with pressurized water and cleaned totally. Of course I started to look for a textile like boing type seats.

Here is a pic from the seats:

Cables & wiring details

Parallel port joystick configuration for sim:
http://www.etheli.com/simulator/simulator.html
http://www2.burg-halle.de/~schwenke/parport.html
http://sim.tomsrc.com/page.php?17                            parallel & serial port emulation
http://www.epanorama.net/documents/joystick/pc_joystick.html#connector     very good connection diagrams
http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/usb_game12/index.php
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ih/doc/par/
http://airborn.com.au/serial/rs232.html




USB connection hacking:
http://www.simprojects.nl/usb_joystick_hacking.htm

Gameport connections:
http://pinouts.ru/Inputs/GameportPCMidi_pinout.shtml
http://www.simprojects.nl/joystick_connection.htm
http://www.epanorama.net/documents/joystick/pc_circuits.html#sb_solver
http://vvvv.org/documentation/howto-gameport


control servo motors:
http://principialabs.com/joystick-control-of-a-servo      with C++
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php?topic=12660.0         with Visual Basic code
http://www.aaroncake.net/circuits/stepper.asp
http://www.imagesco.com/articles/picservo/04.html

All types of PC control details:
http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade_input.shtml
http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~trp/pinouts.html
http://www.allpinouts.org/index.php/Main_Page

-- use for tests:

http://circuitzoo.com/2011/02/27/electronics/atari-to-pc-joystick-adapter-circuit-diagram

http://circuitzoo.com/2010/10/18/electronics/guitar-tone-control-circuit-board-design

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Serial_Programming/RS-232_Connections

http://www.circuit-projects.com/audio-circuits/
http://www.sonelec-musique.com/electronique_realisations_interface_midi_001.html
http://www.abcelectronique.com/

some pieces to buy:
http://www.homecinema-fr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=29881029

Collecting Information

Hi again,
You may think that I only do copy paste in this blog, but actually what I want to do is to collect all the best prectices / solutions and then to start the construction without any doubt.
Of course I will give my solutions and construction details in videos or as documents.
Keep following up !

Videos that I like

Cockpit construction 767ER

Some photos from my flights

• Here are some more pics from the real flight noPC801
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Easy, Cheap, Professionel looking

My project intended to be firstly professional looking, easy to make and not expensive as other models.
So, i will use different methods and pieces to make it real.

Links to suppliers

Here are all references used during this project;

Solutions & panels:

http://opencockpits.com/
http://secure.simmarket.com/hardware-page-1.chtml
http://www.flightsimulatorcenter.com/default.aspx
http://www.cockpitsolutions.com/

http://www.aerosimsolutions.com.au/B777_throttle.html

quality control buttons and other pieces:

http://www.flightdecksolutions.com/hardware_new.php
http://www.leobodnar.com/products

Programs to be used:

fs panel studio  -  http://www.fspanelstudio.com/index.htm
FsXPand/FsClient  -  
wideview           -  http://www.wideview.it
key2mouse       -  http://www.wideview.it/key2mouse.htm

Materials to be used:

- 3 x  19inch monitors            for MIP

- 2 graphic cards                   for the instrument  views                                           and panoramic straight ahead projector view
- splitter VGA                       for the pilot and copilot instruments views
- Universal 12 bit usb controller
         http://www.leobodnar.com/products/BU0836X/

- 737 MCP                            from opencockpits
- 737 EFIS                            from opencockpits
- 737 Rudder trim indicators    from opencockpits
- servo motors card                from opencockpits
- gauges                              from opencockpits

- Overhead panel ( planning to do it by myself )
- Throttle            ( planning to do it by myself )

Some Usefull Documents:

http://barelybad.com/FSX/FSXintro.htm

PUSH BACK

Hello All,
As of today at least in my opinion, I started my home made cockpit project by creating this blog.
I try to give all details of this project to share and to have other ideas from you.