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Short update

The last update that reffers to my homecockpit is some months in the past.
As I described end last year, we will build our new home. Today I am happy to share a picture with you. You can see the beginning of the basement. I have highlighted in red the future room for my homecockpit project, the size will be around 19m².

2013-07-30 18.35.40

It is scheduled that we move in our new home next year in the late summer.
I will update this blog with some pictures in the future to show you the new homecockpit room 🙂
In the meantime, I wish you all a nice and hot summer 2013.

Airpower 2013

Airpower 2013 took place again. Airpower is an airshow hostet by the Austrain military and Red Bull every 2nd year in Austria. The event takes place on the military airport Hinterstoisser in the city of Zeltweg.

The last 3 times we went from Thursday until Sunday, while the airshow itself is on Friday and Saturday.

Here you will find some photos and videos from the fabulous show

Looking forward to 2015.

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Disassembling – Day 4

Today we have managed to move the whole MIP and Overhead.

Therefore we had to unmount the MIP in a lot of handy parts, load it into cars, unload and rebuild it.

Hey, we where good. Only 17 screws left when we finished to rebuilt it 🙂 We have absolutely no clue where we missed those screws…

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A very big thank to my brother and father to help me moving all the stuff.

My interim setup

Here is a photo of my interim setup for flying.

Not quite the same nice stuff as it was in the homecockpit, but I can fly.

You have to learn once more when making all the inputs via mouse to the airplane.

A whole other flying than with the nice setup of all the hardware around you…

2013-01-25 17.54.28 — inflight LOWW-VIDP as OS33 – Level D 767

Disassembling – Day 3

Today we had to cancel the moving of the MIP due to heavy snowfall since 2 days in Vienna.
Here is a photo from our window.
We only moved the smaller pedestal and the throttle unit.

Disassembling – Day 2

Today I have removed all USB, LAN, power and other connections were the PCs and other stuff was attached.

It took around 3 hours to get those untangeld. I sorted the cables and put them into a storage.

Some annunciator had to be disconnected from the LED cards because they were directly wired, such as the front panels from the MIP.

The next step will be to disassemble the whole MIP, this is scheduled for friday.

Disassembling – Day 1

Today I started with the disassembling of my homecockpit.

The progress is quite good for only 4 hours. All computers, the CDU, Throttle, Pedestal unit, lower EICAS, all monitors and some simple connections were removed.

The photo shows the status of todays day.

Last full-working setup picture

Here is a last picture from my homecockpit setup before it will get dismounted and stored in a save place until the new house is ready to rebuild the homecockpit in a seperate room.

The disassembling will start next week.

I will do one last flight rotation today from LOWW-LOWI-LOWW.

After the last rotation @Austrian Technical Base – LOWW.

Cold & Dark

New Year, New Goals…

I have good and sad news for you and myself.

The good first: We will start building our new house this year and there will be also a seperate room available for my Homecockpit.

The plans are that also a shell will be built around the current sim. In the final version there will be three projectors running the cockpit. But this will take the next few years to have this installed as planned.

Now the sad news: As the house we are currently living in must be demolished to have the place to build the new one, the homecockpit must be stored in a safe place. Also some modifications and repairing will take place on the seperate modules.

I will start during January with the seperation of all the modules. Of course I will take photos and update the blog here with the progress.

If all plans are proceeding well in late 2014 / beginning 2015 the sim will be up and running again with a basic shell around it.

During this time I will continue flying as often as it will be possible on my spare setup.