I'll be knocking on his door if he does..........

 

 

 

 

 

Frank Cooper

Wrong fonts on the MCP and other simple staff is killing the realism of the cockpit...Never seen sim cockpit with realistic mcp fonts.

300 thousand is way over the top...you can reproduce the 737 in all it's glory for under 20,000 go here...http://www.737ng.co.uk/idea.htm

or

http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/content.php

Wrong fonts on the MCP and other simple staff is killing the realism of the cockpit...Never seen sim cockpit with realistic mcp fonts.

 

He's missing the lower engine DU too and has a configuration with PFD/ND and side-by-side engine display that doesn't exist in the real world too... no idea what that screen where the lower DU should be is.

Most of the systems incorporated in cockpit building can be run off normal household electrical now. No more need for 3 phase (unless you are running dof systems and such).

 

I'd also say at a rough guess, his sim cost around 200 or 300 thousand. You can buy a cockpit shell for a bit over two grand now.

 

It's the ultimate boys toy, thas for sure...

 

Frank Cooper

ALL of the systems in home cockpits are powered by PC power supplies and USB hubs. Each panels switches and LED's uses much less than the standard 5 volts supplied by USB 2

What you see in that video is Project Magenta's " Boeing Suite " which is being displayed on 3 monitors behind the MIP.

2 19 inch and 1 15 inch (eicas and standy)

The overhead panel is from Flightdeck Solutions in Toronto and is controlled by PM Systems software. and all I/O is handled by FD solution's own custom software. (Interface IT)

The biggest nightmare for any cockpit builder is getting the autothrottles right. Neither PM or FD Solutions can supply this.

I was lucky with this and found a guy who wrote a special program which can control the autothrottles and keep them in sync with FSX.

 

See 5th post down and link ! http://forum.avsim.n...shhome-cockpit/

 

He's missing the lower engine DU too and has a configuration with PFD/ND and side-by-side engine display that doesn't exist in the real world too... no idea what that screen where the lower DU should be is.

Flightdeck Solutions now do a lower DU panel but what you see in this video is just a reflection on a blank black glass plate.

 

( if someone is really good with computers and a soldering iron, it is possible to build such a flightdeck for well under 100K.)

 

Fred.

I'm sorry, mate. I wasn't saying that you can't build a home cockpit for under 300 (and I just plucked that out of the air based on my own experiences with some pro sims).

I was making a guess at how much he'd spent, based on the full (obviously original base) cockpit nose section, his hardware, projection system, etc.

 

You can have a cockpit for a hellluva lot less, just depends on your budget.

 

And I think you'll have to take up the wrong fonts comment with the manufacturers of the MCP's such as CP Flight, Opencockpits, etc. The guy can't be held accountable for originality for that, and I don't think you'll find that he gives a hoot when he's flying around all day in something that's been that well put together.

 

I take my hat off to the guy (altho I'm biased), I'd like that kind of set-up too.

 

 

 

 

Frank Cooper

300 thousand is way over the top...you can reproduce the 737 in all it's glory for under 20,000 go here...http://www.737ng.co.uk/idea.htm

or

http://www.mycockpit...ums/content.php

Is he spending your money i dont think so, dont you think if he spent that amount he could afford it and most likely could do it all over again a few times.

The ultimate question is this;

 

If in a real life scenary, whereby a FO or captain fell ill or went out of it, could someone who plays FSX and understands most of the 737 NGX functions etc, could they take the reigns of a 737 and actually get the plane on the ground safely, with this knowledge? If so thats amazing and if not what functionality, besides instant motions, could fsx and the ngx as a computer and plane be missing?

 

 

 

200-300k could easily have got him full pilot training, many times over.

 

As an ex comm pilot and flight instructor ( many moons ago) Im very happy with the realism in planes like the pmdg and FSX however whether or not a skilled simmer can land the real 737 is debatable. Assuming the rescue simmer can calm down enough from the initial panic to get his head together would be the first thing, the other being real 3 d and G force would lead to massive over corrections.

However if the simmer could get the A/P sorted quickly and with instructions from ATC im confident he/she could get the jet on the gildeslope and if auto land is available then no problem but you wouldn't want to have to go around though..

then no problem but you wouldn't want to have to go around though..

Why not just full throttle and pull that stick :D

Why not just full throttle and pull that stick :D

 

Because being like Tom Cruise (or whatever his name was in Top Gun) if you've never flown a real plane before could make a bad situation worse.