Sweet setup you've got there!

It was an accident.

I started with a couple of panels I built for the desktop and that led to an overhead. Then I wanted a throttle so I built that. Not being satisfied, I built the control stand to mount it on. Then I wanted a yoke to ditch the desktop toys.

Then I needed a chair...

And I got tired of looking at a 19" monitor so I needed an instrument panel...you can see where it led.

This whole this has snowballed over the last five years. I had never intended to build a flight simulator. What I mean is, I didn't sit down one day and say, Yep, I'm gonna build a 727 flight simulator.

After installing the instrument panel I knew it was too late to turn back so I built the rest of it. It's only a 3/4 shell though as there is a chimney in the way of the FO's side.

Most of the home-made panels have been replaced with Boeing made or contracted panels in the overhead, forward equipment rack and center control stand. The instrument panel and yoke is from a retired 727.

I guess I have around $7K including computers and monitors. Maybe more, maybe less. I'd really rather not know.

Four computers run the simulator and all of the monitors. It's interfaced using input cards from several vendors and FSUIPC.

Good lord man!! 

Outstanding work on this! You say you made that throttle? 

Wait till John sees this!   



As real as it gets indeed. 

Impressive to the max. 


How much of it is functional in the sim?

BSW727,

Welcome to the pit builders section of SimV.  Can't wait to see what the verbage is talking about.

Photos are not loading today... so I can't take a look now....... but I'll be back. 

best,

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

PS:  Aha.... the photos are on a Phtobucket account.  BSW....... can you please upload them to the SimV server?

Wow

That's a cool cockpit!  Nice work.

BSW727 wrote on Nov 18^th, 2009 at 9:01am:



Yea I have a few images I wanna upload real bad but every time i reduce the size and try to upload I get one or more of the mentioned issues (IE loss of quality or size limit exceeded) and i've done just about every thing i can think of in short of saving in a different format which also tends to loose the quality

All I did was compress them to 150 or nearest, and upload them here. I didn't have to do any resizing to them. 

8 pics at 150kb was a bit much though.

Hagar wrote on Nov 18^th, 2009 at 1:02pm:



You really think so? 

I compared them side by side and didn't think they looked too terribly different.  But then again, they did lose a couple hundred thousand kb apiece, so there's going to be a bit of degradation.  Hopefully someday in the future, that 150kb limit can go up a little. 

Thanks for fixing the photos. 

I thought it was an actual cockpit that he said he bought and turned into a sim when I skimmed over it... lol I'ts just amazing.

This is as close as it gets until... well... you get the real deal sims like that the military or corporate pilots train at. This is awesome!

Nice!

You do like the flight checklists and stuff like back in the airline then?

Very nice work!! 

Stunning piece of work there BSW727!!!!!

best,

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

Neither one.

This is the Dreamfleet 727. Engine guages though, are by Richard Probst. The Dreamfleet engine stack would not integrate correctly into the panel file because of the way that it was coded.

Well I know it doesn't draw 20 amps when the whole thing is fired up. The sim room is on a circuit by itself and so far so good.

Four computers, six power supplies, seven monitors, 200 watt amp, 100 watt sub, and so far no smoke.