Today was a quiet day spent at work, on call…. so I got plenty of design and development work done on the 737! First I drew up the
Boeing 737-500 Classic Sim
And now with added bezel
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
Boeing 737-500 Classic Sim
737 Avionics Test Run
A quick run of the avionics software running with the screen in place. Looks pretty good! Now I need to design some bezels for the gauges and some
Boeing 737-500 Classic Sim
Big night for the 737
Over the past couple of evenings I have been trimming the back of the MIP panels on the 737 to fit the 20″ monitor in place. Tonight, with
Arrow Sim
Old phone/new use
Jenny upgraded her phone, which left her old phone spare…. So now the Arrow has a smaller, but much faster GPS display. Still running FSRadioPanel, but on a
TA-4k Sim
New Clock for the Skyhawk
This came up on a website recently in the “misc bits” category; Listed as “broken/not working”… but it was cheap. Once it arrived I discovered that the sweep
General Man Cave
Cool Weather Website
Found this while I was looking for something else…. www.windy.com is a really cool weather visualisation website…. I’m going to have this running on a monitor in the
Boeing 737-500 Classic Sim
737 Home again!
After many, many miles and some months away, the 737 arrived home yesterday. The plan was to have all 3 sims online, the Arrow on the ground at
Boeing 737-500 Classic Sim
Big weekend on the 737
Lots done this weekend. Rudder pedal “canoe” completed, with a sub-floor built for the foot/heel plates to attach to and the whole lot painted. Then, with it all
Man Cave TA-4k Sim
More stickers for the wall
After today’s visit to the Ashburton Aviation Museum I have added a couple of new stickers to the man cave wall…