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Strobe Lights – Test Build

Yes, you are reading correct. Strobe lights. Not in the Sim, no, this we have, I mean strobe light in real.

Michael made a prototype of the strobe lights. Basically its simple, as a base we took a DIY tool from a Conrad which fully includes all required parts.

The only thing you need to plug in is a 12V power supply. Then you have strobe lights 🙂 Ok, not all done now, because the strobes in the flightdeck are only visable in clouds and in the night near the ground. So Michael made a .lua file which reads some inputs and writes a FSUIPC variable. This variable will trigger through ProSim a gate on the PoKeys card. This is connected to a simple relays and furthermore to the strobe card. This is not working as expected, as PoKeys can not connect direct with relays, you need an additional card to get this working. This card is current in delivery.

I will update a post when the module is built in and finished in programming.

LOWW-LOWK-LOWW OS935/936 and OS912 to Vienna from Innsbruck

I have another video post for you today. I was flying a short rotation Vienna-Klagenfurt-Vienna as OS935/OS936.
With my new action cam I current try to find the optimal angle of mounting the cam and setup of the recording station.

With this video the flightdeck camera (actioncam) was removed and created a separate video (see below):

Also another setup from Innsbruck to Vienna with a very shaky flight.

Merry Christmas 2016

I wish you a merry Christmas. Greetings from the far north Rovaniemi – EFRO / Finnland.

Taxi to Gate 7

Presents loading for the return flight to Vienna as OS2416.

The original document can be found here direct by Jeppesen.

Captains Chrono

On the chrono for the MIP I had a lot ideas during the years. On top of the list there was always the Opencockpits clock – it is still there, but I was also thinking of an 5″ Monitor solution. Therefore I would have needed the 5″ monitor, a PC with a free VGA output [which I didn’t have] – or a USB VGA module and a VGA to RCA adapter to feed the 5″ monitor. So I found a cheaper solution. I bought a 8″ Windows 10 tablet on Gearbest (for around 80€) and placed it behind the MIP. With Teamviewer I can access the tablet, as it is running Windows 10 you can run also the Prosim Display Application with the Chrono to be displayed. In the MIP I have the push buttons installed and connected to the PoKey 57E Ethernet card. So the plan — 🙂

But it seems to be a little harder to get this done. Continue reading “Captains Chrono”

EKCH to LOWI Video

During my last flight I recorded the video with a nice setup.
From Cold and dark until takeoff and approach to cold and dark it is in realtime. During cruise it is time elapse.

Have fun.

Nice landing video

Yesterday I was flying a lot with a friend in Northern Europe.

We started Copenhagen to Bergen; Bergen to Oslo; Oslo to Stavanger; Stavanger back to Oslo;Oslo to Bergen.

A very nice video was created filmed from the First Officer side.

Hope you enjoy it as we did 🙂

Seat continued

During the last days I have continued to finish the seats. The gap was closed with some wooden plates and painted.

Also the grey fabric is here and getting prepared to be fitted onto the seat cushions. I will post there a seperate blog entry.

Circuit Breaker Panel and Fire extinguisher

As you can imagine an aircraft has a lot of circuit breakers. On the Boeing 737 they are located behind the cockpit crew on the walls, split up to different segments.
I was thinking lately how this can be done as a dummy installation. First I thought of cutting a 8mm round plate into a lot pieces and paint the black. This would have ended up to around 400 small pieces – for a dummy, to much.

I found in a german forum a guy who painted those panels in a very good quality. I took them and printed them onto A4 scale sticker paper, like my other decals I have done. I know, they are not the real size, but the shell itself is also not 100% real size, so I modified the size to match my shell and would be quite good to the reality.

I have applied the stickers to the First Officer and Pilot side as in real. The result looks very good and adds a nice touch to the flightdeck.

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Finally also the small dummy fire extinguisher was placed in the flightdeck. img_20161124_125627_copy

Streaming Setup

During the last flight I have tried an action-cam (SJ4000) for recording and I was overwhelmed, what a beautiful angle (see below).

So I tried the next days a new improved streaming setup with XSplit. The Actioncam for the main action in the flightdeck. The Webcam for a detailed view on a section or moveable during Taxi/Takeoff and Landing on the glareshield for an improved feeling for the viewers. And the main Instruments like PFD, ND, EICAS and FMC to be included in the stream direct. I have saved 3 configuration where I can choose them with a mouseclick to provide you with different setup.

Lets see how this will work out during active flying. But the first try was very nice 🙂

It will be tested on the next flights and when I am satisfied I will post the links to Videos here. If you Subscribe to my Youtube channel, you can get a notification when I am online streaming a flight.

Gear pins

While watching some Cockpit videos and documentation I noticed that my flightdeck has no gear pins. After some minutes of thinking I found a quick and inexpensive solution.

I bought a 8mm round and a 9x9mm square wood and made there my Gear pins. 5cm for the handle and 10cm for the pin itself. Drilled a 2mm hole in the handle and fixed it to the pin with a 3mm screw.

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Than it got painted in silver/gray.
After this a 2 mm hole was drilled to fit the “remove before flight” tag, which I have purchsed on Ebay here.

gearpins

To have it stowed in the cockpit I took a 20x20mm wood and drilled 3 10mm holes. Painted in RAL7001 and mounted onto the sidewall behind the F/O seat. Now you can store and check it the steering pins are all here and secured.