First, very rough, bezel test…. Looks pretty good, needs more details and provision for clear acrylic to simulate the gauge glass.
From this test it has become quite clear that I will need to de-case the monitor to get it fitting closer to the front of the panel. This may also mean I willbe able to have at least a partly working clock!
Also in this pic is the first test run of my new CDU! The screen is very dim, and there is significant image distortion on one side…. but, it was still a bargain, and most definitely usable!
In a not completely unrelated mission tonight I fired up one of the touchscreens I scored from the ATR sim tear-down and tested it with my ‘Skyhawk Instructor Station’ software. Apart from needing to be re-sized for a smaller screen it worked really nicely! It has been my plan to re-write the IOS for the Skyhawk anyway, but now I plan on making it work with the 737 as well (with suitable changes to aircraft graphics, fuel quantities etc)