Cockpit Drawings
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010 at 2:53 pm • Mechanical • RSS 2.0 feed • leave a response or trackback
I started all over, this time took the cockpit dimensions from http://www.markuspilot.com/BOEING%20737%20MEASUREMENTS.pdf
I just made it a single seater B737NG cockpit. So I had to move a few instruments on the MIP.
I used a 24″ TFT for the forward view, 2 19″ for 40 degrees left and right. And I have the option now to add two more monitors for the side views. Don’t know if these are really going to be realised, ever…
Also the steering is changed. I have a yoke column now. Which is still controlled by the Saitec Yoke, with a ‘rod extension’. I think I can make something like that.
I’ll post the new drawings soon. Just have to draw the overhead box and look if it still fits on my attic.
That’s amazing, very good job, im sure it’s quite realistic.
Well, it is more like a test environment right now. To check if all the things I have in mind really fit. (or not)
And I didn’t download my x-plane but ordered the DVD’s. They arrived in the Netherlands within a week or so. And were only $29.
I did do an update to 9.43 via the Internet though.
You are doing well, i hope it will really work. Let me ask you something, when i saw the pictures of cockpit version 1 i note the monitor at down-left where displaying the instruments of a Cesna -i guess ?- but in the 7 views monitors does not appear the propeller, you were using MFS2004 -i guess too- it looks that way with any aircraft ? And another question, i have just one video card but supports two monitors, can i get two differents views with them ? Sorry for my curiosity .. jeje. Greetings.
When you have 1 PC with a multihead videocard (those that support 2 monitors) you can connect 2 screens to it and display different content on the screens. WITH MSFS YOU CAN also 2 different views. WITH XPLANE 9 YOU CANNOT! You can only use xplane on 1 screen and an instructors screen on the other one on the same pc. That is a pitty because now I am forced to use 1 PC for 1 outside view…
What should be possible, on the other hand, is to run 2 instances of X Plane 9 on the same PC, each with its own screen. But you need a very powerfull PC for that.
With NVIDIA video cards it should be possible to run a X screen on each head (VGA-port).
What’s possible too, and that’s what I’ll be using on my Fly-PC (the one with the 4 screens) is an instance of xplane, with some third party software like VAS-FMC and maybe a GPS on all separate screens.
Yes cockpit # 1 was a MSFS2004 simulator. I had 5 of the 7 view monitors working and a few instrument monitors. On the view monitors you can only see what is outside, no wings, no propellors. Because these monitors were driven by MSFS2004 in skew mode. That is a mode where the simulator gets its data (coordinates, weather, time) via a network and just show what one would see in a certain direction. the instrument monitors were driven by the PC with the simulator that is actually controlled by the usb joystick. This is where I fly. I used 4 PC’s: one to fly on and drive the instrument screens, 1 for the front view and 1 for the 2 right side monitors, and 1 PC for the left ones. The views would look the same for a cesna as for a 737, that would also be in the real world, wouldn’t it? It makes no difference if you look outside in a boeing or in a cesna. But the instruments would be different. And of course the handling of the airplane. And that is all controlled by the fly-PC. Just a matter of loading a different plane.