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It has been a long while since I wrote Part 1. Hard to believe. It took time to get things finished up and generally working, and then the rest of the sim had to be built back up on top of it. Throw a bit of “life happens” and dips in motivation and time just …
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Real world cockpit panel lighting is dependent on the active power bus. I explain how I set up my panel lighting to function in a similar way, resulting in a more realistic cockpit lighting environment.
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I try out the Pimax Crystal Light VR Headset in MSFS 2020 and 2024. How good is it?
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It has been a long while since the last post but that doesn’t mean things have been quiet. A lot has been happening behind the scenes over the last year and there are certainly a lot of new things to write about. It just takes time to sit down and write them out, so thanks …
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“Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Introduction One of the things I’ve wanted for a long time is linked control columns, and it’s the last major item needed to complete my reasonable recreation of a Boeing 737-800 cockpit. In Part 1 of …
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It has been a while since my last update. While it may seem things have been pretty quiet, I’ve made quite a bit of progress over the months since then and thought I’d share. Bulkhead Progress The rear bulkhead has been a pretty big project these past months, but it’s mostly complete (for now). I …
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Sometimes you need a fun diversion from flight simming. So I decided to make my own virtual pinball machine.
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Working on adding real circuit breaker panels to my 737 cockpit.
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What do you need to know when buying parts for your home flight simulator cockpit build?
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Time to start enclosing my cockpit shell with a rear bulkhead.
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Just yesterday I finished building the same but used FDS 737 Shell together. The overhead supporting structure that I see…
Thanks. I updated the Markus Pilot reference, and the other measurement site apparently no longer exists unfortunately.
Most links are out of date
Hi, if you mean the two rails that run from front to rear and the cross strut, yes those came…