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Just ordered PMSystems

Posted by Matt On October - 31 - 2009

Been a long time coming. I first ordered the Boeing-Type Glass Cockpit, PFD, ND, EICAS from Enrico on January 28th, 2004. But my sim never really took off and I ended up a year later going to the Cessna. Well, back in the 737 again, I’ve finally come full circle and have just ordered PMSystems from Project Magenta!

This will give me not only the functionality of my fire/caution and warning/six packs that I currently have, but will give me the systems logic I’ve been missing, and of course you need this for the overhead to work!

Next part of the project will be the overhead but for now, I’m probably going to mount an LCD and use it that way.

Overhead

Windshield Part 2

Posted by Matt On October - 28 - 2009

Well ran into some problems the moment I turned on the projector. Shadows from the window frame, ugh! I tried moving the projector forward, but the image became too small to fill the large area I had before. (And still want)

Thus, as with all situations, you improvise. I had to pull the frame that was mounted to the wall off, and started to mount it to the mip/cdu bay. Then, I had to pull the whole thing back from the wall about 2 feet. This really makes it more of a tight fit but not much I can do about that.

Anyhow, after doing that and firing up FSX, I must admit, it looks pretty nice!

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Glare Shield

Started building a Wind Shield

Posted by Matt On October - 28 - 2009

Have started building a wind shield. I don’t have room for a full shell, but am trying to create some sort of support structure that will hold up the forward overhead, etc. Time will tell on that.

So far I’ve got the captains window done and the center post.

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Glare Shield

Captain on Board

Posted by Matt On October - 25 - 2009

Just a quick photo of me in the sim!

Screen shot 2009-10-25 at 10.10.40 AM

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World’s Largest RC Plane

Posted by Matt On October - 23 - 2009

WOW!

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