Simviation Forum - JBaymore "The Home brew Cockpit Project

Apr 27^th, 2004 at 9:22am

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Our very own John Baymore who started this forum dedicated to building the ultimate flying experience, has undertaken an incredible project! At first it was a vision, but after months of hard work and dedication, his dream is starting to take shape.
I have made this a sticky so anybody who comes to this forum can see that with some glue, nails, a bit of imagination and a Big credit card, you too can build your ultimate cockpit!
John moderates this forum and it is only right that we be able to view his progress as he comes closer and closer to sitting in it!
We are looking forward to the final pictures John sitting in the big chair enjoying this hobby you have taken to the extreme!!

Congrats and best of luck!!

Below are the links to the pictures and the progress! Alto of dedication and hard work!!
Post a comment to tell John what an incredible job he is doing!!

PART ONE
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PART TWO
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PART THREE
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PART FOUR
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PART SIX
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PART EIGHT
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PART NINE
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PART TEN
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PART TWENTY EIGHT
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PART TWENTY NINE
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PART THIRTY
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PART THIRTY ONE
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PART THIRTY TWO
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PART THIRTY EIGHT
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PART THIRTY NINE
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PART FORTY
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Reply #1 - Apr 27^th, 2004 at 12:09pm

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

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And the credit card is not that large.

best,

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Reply #2 - Oct 21^st, 2004 at 1:38pm

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Reply #3 - Jan 26^th, 2005 at 11:52am

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where does all the wood and aluminium come from?

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Reply #4 - Mar 12^th, 2005 at 9:05pm

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Reply #5 - Aug 15^th, 2005 at 5:44pm

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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...
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Reply #6 - Aug 15^th, 2005 at 6:02pm

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Woozy,

Yes... we do realize that. Someday when I have time to track all the images that are missing..... I will reupload them. Maybe Wink

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best,

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

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Reply #7 - Dec 3^rd, 2005 at 9:01pm

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And how much does this cost?????

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Reply #8 - Jan 11^th, 2006 at 3:20pm

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Do you have TSA Security screeners at the door of the computer room yet?

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Reply #9 - Jan 11^th, 2006 at 7:14pm

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Do you have TSA Security screeners at the door of the computer room yet?

I don't know. I can't get into my house without a boarding pass. Wink

best,

.......john

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Reply #10 - Jan 12^th, 2006 at 7:32pm

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I don't know. I can't get into my house without a boarding pass. Wink

well at least you don't have to be strip searched... or is that a good thing Wink

so whats the update, any new news to report?

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Reply #11 - Jan 15^th, 2006 at 5:46am

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ramos,

No real news to report at the moment on the simpit......... too busy with "life" to get any time to do anything right now. But a lot of thinking about it is going on.... so that helps to resolve problems. Wink

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Reply #12 - Jan 16^th, 2006 at 12:02am

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too busy with "life" to get any time to do anything right now.

you and your "life" technology & whatnot... Tongue

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Reply #13 - Jan 16^th, 2006 at 12:06am

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PS: is life freeware or payware? Wink

Freeware download but the addons are mostly payware. A lot of bugs too. Highly unstable. I'd wait for Life v. 1.03 to come out.

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Reply #14 - Jan 18^th, 2006 at 8:07am

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I'd wait for Life v. 1.03 to come out.

V 1.03 ....... crap... I'm still running 1.02. When did the upgrade come out? Wink

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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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...john

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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,
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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.

best,

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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.

best,

.....................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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Reply #30 - Sep 5^th, 2009 at 6:45pm

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Yeah... I haven't had time yet tyo update all the links to the new server.

I'll get to it eventually.

I was in Japan all summer....so no updates to the pit.

best,

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

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Reply #31 - Sep 6^th, 2009 at 6:33am

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Hey John

explains alot hope you had a good vacation Cheesy

thanks again for the Kuwait international chart info. worked out great Cheesy

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Links fixed.

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Reply #33 - Sep 6^th, 2009 at 10:02am

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ShaneG wrote on Sep 6^th, 2009 at 9:04am:

Links fixed.

THANKS! Shane

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Reply #34 - Feb 21^st, 2011 at 12:04am

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Hey John, I have not checked up on your simpit threads (or Simviation as a whole!) in years. Glad to see it has been continuing on and that it has turned out to look so nice.
Cheers!
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Reply #35 - Feb 29^th, 2012 at 5:47pm

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I was curious to see how you were comming along but the links divert back to the forums homepage. So,hows it comming along? Any new pics?

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Reply #36 - Mar 6^th, 2012 at 7:28pm

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Mike,

Unfortunately life has gotten in the way of any recent progress.

Work will resume.... just not sure when yet.

best,

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

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Reply #37 - Feb 21^st, 2013 at 8:42am

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Links fixed.

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