b737ng cockpit

I bought a MCP panel in Spain, (www.opencockpits.com)
Because this panel is quite long > 20 cm So it wont fit on my CNC machine.
And this is a nice example for me to see how they did it.
Ordered some experiment PCB to fit all switches and stuff.

I’ll be adding some pictures soon.

I’ve chosen the electronics hardware from OpenCockpits. These are spanish flight simulator enthusiasts that have now a complete range of electronic boards and cockpit panels for sale. I ordered some boards for my Nr 1 cockpit. And have connected them to the x-plane simulator. I can lower the HUD (Head Up Display) with a real switch and can see the up/down status of the HUD on a LED. Both connected to a IOcards Master card that is connected via a USB expansion card to my flight PC. See the video: HUD video

Cool huh!?

Since this cockpit is a cockpit with only one captain’s chair in the center of a semi circle of outside view monitors, we need some extra hardware for the outside views. I ‘m planning to use three windows to view outside. (maybe 5 ultimately) 1 straight ahead and 1 for 40 degrees to the left and 1 for 40 degrees to the right (and optionally 2 times 80 degrees left and right) . I haven’t found a way (yet) to let x-plane make two different views on two different video outputs in the same PC…  maybe by running two instances of x-plane on the same pc. But that will take an awful lot of RAM and CPU power. (more…)