Simviation Forum - JBaymore "The Home brew Cockpit Project

Reply #15 - Jan 29^th, 2006 at 3:11am

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hey John

being in completly awe..... I have to ask how many computers do you have running this.. what is used to link them.. and finally how much blood sweat and hard earned cash have you put into this ???

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Reply #16 - Jan 29^th, 2006 at 5:14am

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krazyj,

Thanks for the nice comments.

If you follow the entire thread series documenting the construction to this point....... you'll see the BS+T involved Wink

. It is a multi yea- project so far....with at least a year left. Right now I am in a mode that I don;t have time to do any work on it for a while.

Right now the pit is run by a number of computers. Thre is of course the main flight sim machine. Then there is one machine that runs the ND, the phidgets hardware, and Teamspeak, another runs the PFD and some sound stuff. A third is slated for the dual displays of upper and lower EICAs. A fourth MAY be added to simulate a stand alone FMC.....we'll see.

All the computers except the primary machine that runs FS are "junkers"..... old machines that are far less than cutting edge.

They are linked via a 100mbit hardwired LAN.

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Reply #17 - Jan 30^th, 2006 at 10:49pm

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Lookin' real good, J... hope you remembered to put some stout poles under the whole thing, so a bunch of us can come over, pick it up, and do "full motion" for you... Grin

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Reply #18 - Feb 6^th, 2006 at 10:06am

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hey john was thinking. it is possible that you'd make all the pages that you wrote about your cockpit into a pdf file with all the pics and wiring diagrams and all in it ??

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Reply #19 - Mar 6^th, 2006 at 8:41pm

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Morten,

Unfortunately... not likely Wink

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Reply #20 - Apr 7^th, 2006 at 6:06pm

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Man, John, this is unbleievable! It is so good i couldn't keep my chin off the floor! Justa shame i'm 14, and have a cheapo PC and FS2002 Angry

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Reply #21 - May 22^nd, 2006 at 8:53am

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Has anyone realised, the pictures in John's early posts such as Part 1 have the pictures missing. I guess it's because Pete deleted all the older pics...
Regards,
Ashar

Asahr and all,

Sorted Wink

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Reply #22 - Jun 17^th, 2006 at 2:58pm

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Oh geeeeeeezzzzzeeeee Dave! Thanks.... I think Wink

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And the credit card is not that large.

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lets hope it isnt too big, or it wont fit inside the cash machine slot lol

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Reply #23 - Feb 12^th, 2008 at 9:47am

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John, it's been four months since we've seen any new pics... How's progress coming? *hint, hint* Grin

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Reply #24 - Feb 13^th, 2008 at 10:55am

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Kevin,

Unfortunatly........not much. Been VERY busy with "real life" stuff. Work will resume........ just not sure how soon. Only stuff I've done has been minor... mainly software stuff.

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Reply #25 - Mar 25^th, 2008 at 2:27pm

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That is amazing. How did you get all the instruments to appear where they should - such as the airspeed indicator and the such?

I assume you are running FSX?

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Reply #26 - Mar 25^th, 2008 at 9:27pm

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drummer_tom wrote on Mar 25^th, 2008 at 2:27pm:

That is amazing. How did you get all the instruments to appear where they should - such as the airspeed indicator and the such?

I assume you are running FSX?

Tom

Tom,

Thanks.

Go thru all of the postings one by one and in order.... you will see sequentially pretty much how all of it was done by doing that.

The MIP is a wood panel facing in front of two CRT's and one LCD monitor. The instruments are stand alone gauges (in the pictures so far they are the FreeFD gauges) running on a couple of networked computers. The wood panel facing has cutouts that are in the correct places... and the gauge program is set up to have them appear behind the cutout holes.

Is that what you are asking?

And I am running fs2004 with a scad of payware environment and scenery add-ons.... FSX is too hard on the framerates for my hardware at this point in time.

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Reply #27 - Mar 31^st, 2009 at 4:48pm

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Hi
just finished reading the series over the last week or so.
Some good ideas from this thanks very much - also inspired me to join up here.

I am about 9 months into my own simpit - a beech baron full cockpit - and when I figure out about uploading pictures to this site I will start my own thread as well.

cheers and keep up the good fight.

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Reply #28 - Apr 1^st, 2009 at 11:04am

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Towerguy,

Welcome aboard!!!!! I saw your otehr thread with your pit first and responded in there.

THANKS for joining SImV and sharing your work in this section. And thanks for the kind words on the threads documenting my build.

We look forward to seeing more from you.

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.....................john

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Reply #29 - Sep 5^th, 2009 at 4:26pm

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tried to load the latest page, but the link just opened the main forum site, any idea why ??

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