Further flight testing. This time with visuals supplied by the TripleHead2Go and 3 projectors onto a back-projection screen. No mirrors used this time.

These shots show a first rough test of visuals through the front windows. This is just a temporary back-projected display using 1 projector only.

Why is the image so wide? Check your glasses! ... no :) ... the image is bounced off a slightly curved acrylic mirror.

Flight controls are working but need alot of fine tuning yet.

Neil's been away for a week and we've both been crook with the flu this week - so progress has slowed a bit. However we've soldiered on and have been finishing the glareshield, running all the cable, and getting the systems back to life. The pics below show some views of the displays running (except RH CDU and lower EICAS - run out of cable!).

The gear lever is in - minus faceplates in this pic.

Pic from the back of the main panel showing monitor mounts and the 'backbone' tube with cable starting to run through. This looks butt ugly but that's ok ... we're building a cockpit simulator, not the replica of an aircraft nose! :). If anyone looks from this side they will get a good talking to - lol.

Moving more gear in now. Below you can see the avionics pedestal and TQ in place, and the First-Officer displays running in the background.

The IT bay continues to fill up. All the cable will be tidied up later once the system is fully bedded down. Karen loves this because she can go ballistic with her labelling machine (OCD you know...), and Neil loves it because he can go bananas with his favourite thing... cable ties!

The jumpseat is now installed.

Now that the carpet is down and the main parts are in the flightdeck we spent some time on the back section. Below you can see the IT bay starting to fill up as we move in PCs, much cable and network gear.

The instructor station up and running. It's cosy, but nice! Carpet isn't down in here yet. From this PC we're running instructor station software, IO card software, and we use UltraVNC to access the other PCs remotely from here as well.

Bum up, head down! :) Neil practising his new found carpet laying skills. We used marine carpet - good quality, reasonable cost.

MIP stand and glareshield frame installed.

Hmm ... think this goes here somewhere ...

Main instrument panel installed.

Long time no post! ... been rather busy as you might imagine. Anyways... got all the control pots (potentiometers) installed and working. Connected up to our IO card now and ready to test.

The roll pot in close-up - this runs out of the underside of the yoke cog, through an aluminium base plate.

Below is the pitch pot before installation in the frame. We're using a 100mm fader pot for this.

This is control central under the floor. If you can identify all these parts and what they do please let us know! :)