Building a 737-800 Homecockpit [OE-LNJ]

Hardware issue on PFD machine

After a 2 month brake I started all the PCs for a system check and update sequence today. After half an hour the PFD pc went dark. I rebooted the machine and as soon as the windows logo appears it shuts down again. I thought of an HDD first, but it happened on different times. My next guess was one of the USB connected devices. So I unplugged all 8 devices and rebooted, same effect. I took the HDD drive out and installed it on a same spare machine, there all was working. So I decided to switch the machines. During unplugging the graphic card I noticed that the CPU cooler was not fully in place.

So this was my issue as well. The machine overheated and shut down itself. After inspecting the cooler I noticed that the clips on the cooler were broken and therefore the cooler was not tight on the CPU anymore.

I continued with the replacement of the graphic card and USB PCI card and started the machine. All was working again.

So I ordered on eBay some spare parts for the cooler clips to have a backup PC ready again in a few weeks.

Business trip and Summer break

It’s been a while since the last post, but there are 3 reasons for that.

First I was one week in Atlanta on a business trip. I flew from Vienna via London to Atlanta. I enjoyed a smooth ride with the Boeing 777-200 from British Airways over the Atlantic ocean. There also this perfect picture was taken. Its really a massive GE90 engine to be watched from the window seat 😉

Second, we enjoyed a week of family vacation in Italy.

And third, its hot, very hot in Vienna. For the last 2 weeks we had around 30-35°C each day. Not very refreshing in the non air-conditioned flight deck 😉

Timelapse flight Frankfurt [EDDF] to Innsbruck [LOWI] RNAV08 Approach

This video consists of 2 parts. The first one is a full timelapse flight from Frankfurt [EDDF] to Innsbruck [LOWI].

It will show the approach to runway 08 via the RNAV Z from the west.

The second part is the approach filmed from the first officer side in realtime.

Mediterranean Tour 2018 – Leg 6 – Djerba [DTTJ] to Naples [LIRN]

The sixth flight is a 2 pilots flight again with Chris. It takes us to North Africa, to Tunisia.

It is mixed real time and timelapse mode.

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Maps generated by the Great Circle Mapper – copyright © Karl L. Swartz. http://www.gcmap.com

VACC Austria Realops event. Rotation LOWW-EDDM-LOWW

On June 9th the Realops Event took place in Vienna. Therefore you could book Real Time slots from this day schedule from the Vienna airport. Outbound and Inbound. The event was hosted for the 10th anniversary of VACC Austria. Happy Birthday, again!
I flew a rotation for austrian virtual from LOWW to EDDM as OS117L and back to Vienna as OS118C

Video Capturing Setup

Back in 2016 I have started my streaming / capturing setup for some flight. During the month of usage I have changed and adopted a lot.

Since a couple of month I am running a stable configuration in terms of camera angle and the organisation of the picture. Below you can see the actual setup and a short description the 16 different information spots.

Actual Flight Number
Departure and Destination Airport in ICAO standard
Remaining flight time (direct route)
my blog address
virtual airline I am flying for
Main Flightdeck View – captured from an SJCAM 4000 Action Cam
First Officer View – captured from an Logitech Webcam 720p
Captains CDU
First Officer CDU
Captains Chrono
Actual Flap position
Captains PFD
Captains ND
EICAS Screen
Lower EICAS Screen
moving flight map incl. altitude in feet and meters, outside air temperature in °C and speed in knots and km/h

I will now explain a little where all the information is coming from.

Continue reading “Video Capturing Setup”

New Design on the blog

Since a couple of years I was running the same design on this blog. The most thing that was bothering me lately, was the limited space for bigger pictures. So I have searched and tried a lot themes. In the end I chose this one, direct from WordPress, the 2015 theme.

Very simple design and I can use larger picture sizes to show you more detail.

I hope you enjoy it. Comments are always appreciated.

Mediterranean Tour 2018 – Leg 5 – Reggio Calabria [LICR] to Djerba [DTTJ]

The fifth flight is a 2 pilots flight again with Chris. It takes us to North Africa, to Tunisia.

It is mixed real time and timelapse mode.

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Maps generated by the Great Circle Mapper – copyright © Karl L. Swartz. http://www.gcmap.com

2 pilots Vatsim online flight Vienna – Munich – Frankfurt

During the last weekend a friend visited me and we took the opportunity to fly some 2 pilots legs.
Today I want to present you 2 of them.
Both are with ATC on the Vatsim network and are mixed with some timelapse sections.

The first one takes us from the homebase of Austrian virtual, Vienna [LOWW] to Munich [EDDM]