Nov 12
I carefully cut, cleaned and painted the two halves of my new main cockpit panel and mounted a monitor behind the holes cutout for the main gauges. That went easier than expected. But I had to cut a channel in the back of the panel to run the encoder wiring for the OBS, VOR and …
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Oct 01
Computer Specs I built a custom PC based on the need to have 2 16X PCI Express slots for dual video cards. Motherboard – Z270 Gaming Pro Motherboard Processor – Intel Core i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20Ghz Memory – 40GB RAM, probably overkill but I had some lying around. Couldn’t hurt. Hard Drive – 256MB SSD …
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Sep 02
I have had a minor obsession with motion platforms for the past couple years and have tried to build one off and on for awhile. I finally realized that I don’t have the mechanical knowledge to build something that’s going to work well and I wasn’t really having any fun building it. Although, I did …
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Sep 01
This is the first post in a series about the tools I use to create my cockpits. The Glowforge is the first in my list as it’s the newest addition and really fun to use, although I’ve breathed so many plastic fumes now from it, I’m sure that’s not good. I had an automated search …
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Jul 14
Weeks of work went into this upgrade. I redesigned the main panels in Adobe Illustrator and cut them on the CNC (only 6 tries to get it right this time).Each panel was designed meticulously using Autodesk Fusion 360, which has become my new go-to for anything that needs to be 3D printed or CNC cut/engraved. …
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May 10
The goal with this build was to get it working as fast as possible. This build uses 3 Windows Pro tablets, all running Sim Innovations Air Manager. The left panel would run all six pack instruments, plus VOR/Tach, the center would run at least one Garmin 430 and the right panel would run all of my engine …
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Mar 08
After purchasing a few Saitek instrument panels, I finally had a chance to put them together to build a test rig, to figure out what parts I would actually need to build my own system from scratch. It’s kind of messy, but the ultimate goal is to utilize existing aircraft components and custom make the …
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