December 26, 2003 - With the permission of the author, David Dunlap, I would
like to share with you David's own personal account of September 11, 2001.
David was the first officer aboard Delta Flight 1989 that departed Boston's
Logan airport directally behind American Flight 11 and United Flight 175.
Its a chilling account and one we should never forget. Read the STORY HERE.
December 25, 2003 - Merry Christmas to all...............................
December 15, 2003 - My good friend, Les Hock, came up with a stellar idea for
the simulator. See all about it HERE.
December 12, 2003 - Well other than a few minor cosmetic blemishes, construction
on the Transition is complete. In fact, I have finished
programming the entire simulator except for a few minor items. GO HERE and see.
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November 30, 2003 - Hardware portion of the Transition is wrapping up.. SEE HERE
November 14, 2003 - Finished installing all main instrument panel annuciators.
SEE HERE
November 8, 2003 - Some news pics showing the main instrument panel installed
along with some others. HERE
YA GO.
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October 8, 2003 - The transition continues........ HERE
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September 30, 2003 - WELL, HERE WE
GO AGAIN! This past weekend I
attended the Avsim conference in Reading,
Pennsylvania and finally had the great pleasure to meet Mr. Enrico Schiratti,
author and founder of the great Project
Magenta
software. During one of our conversations, Enrico advised me that he is
going to pursue creating software to model the
Boeing 757/767-300 as I have been prompting him to do for sometime. The
Boeing 757-767-300 flight deck differs from the
767-400 which we are modeling now. The 757-767-300 is part glass cockpit
and part gauges. You can see the comparisons
HERE.
Ok, I know many are thinking.......
"But your taking a step backwards". And in reality that would
be correct. However, as Dave
and I eluded early on in this project back in the late 90's, our favorite
aircraft is the Boeing 757. The reason we had upgraded
to the 767-400 was merely to accomodate the Project Magenta software that
by far exceeds any other instrument package
available to civilian consumers in the world.
Now that Enrico has decided to adopt
software for the 75/767-300, we are definitely going to take advantage of
it.
Besides, it is definitely more challenging to model this aircraft than it
is the much cleaner and "less busy" 767-400.
The decision has been made and we
are dead set serious on making the change. Last night, I spent 7 hours readying
the simulator for the change. Take a PEEK here to see the results.
Our main instrument panel is in the
design stages as I speak. We are going to take advantage of the awesome
work
being done by Peter Cos at flightdecksolution.com. I had the great opportunity to meet and
chat with Peter at the Avsim
conference as well as to listen to company spokesmen Ron Wiens speak during
one of the paper sessions. Peter's work
is spectacular. I have many real Boeing light plates and the ones Peter
is developing are similar in many ways. We hope
to have the entire MIP and gauges in our possession within 8-10 days.
In the meantime, we have created a
page titled the " TRANSITION
of A SIMULATOR" which
will document the entire
progress of this radical change.
One last comment. You may be wondering.
Are we going to model the 757 or 767-300? The answer is both. The 757
and 767-300 share a extremely similar flight deck so much that pilots are
normally certified in both aircraft due to the
similarities. This way we can fly either one by merely loading the flight
dynamics for the chosen aircraft.
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September 29, 2003 - This past weekend
I had the great opportunity to travel to Reading, Pennsylvania and attend
the
2003 AVSIM conference. I met a host of great folks in the flight simulation
arena. I also had the chance to meet some
of the folks who have purchased our Cockpit Video version 1. Howard Latiolais
of Louisiana and I spent much time
sharing ideas on our simualtors. Another great guy, Phillip Rauch, of New
York stopped by our booth with his son
Jonathon. Jonathon's a great kid! -Phil, I really enjoyed our chat and look
forward to seeing pictures of your simulator as they develop.
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Phillip Rauch with son
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September 15, 2003 - I
thought I would share a couple pictures I took during this years Cincinnati
Lunken
Airport Air-Show. We had a small vendors booth set up selling our cockpit
video. Thanks to all who stopped
by and made this a memorable experience. PICS HERE.
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August 05, 2003 - Added Chuck Moore's
website to our Links page. Chuck and I have been corresponding
for
sometime and I have been anxious to see how is project is progressing. CLICK HERE to go direct to Sunny Florida
and the site of Chuck's B737 project featuring a real cockpit.
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July 24, 2003 - Today Dave and
I entertained a good friend who traveled more than 4 hours by car to visit
and to
see the simulator. CLICK
HERE to see pictures of Dave
and I flying with Kevin Varney of Belfry, Kentucky.
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April 30, 2003 - The CD/DVD video
is now shipping. GO
HERE for more information.
April 27, 2003 - As promised,
the CD/DVD video of our cockpit has been completed. A webpage to take orders
has been created and will be announced in the next couple of days. For anyone
interested, we have cut 3 clips from
the video for folks to download and preview before purchasing the entire
volume. Click HERE for more info.
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March 02, 2003 - Well, you didn't
really think we'd go to long without an upgrade did you? Well your right.
We recently
added a working steering tiller to the Captains side, AND, we have finally
re-designed our yokes linking them together.
See a couple pictures HERE.
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February 28, 2003 - Having been overwhelmed
with requests to see more AVI's of our simulator, we have decided to
make available to everyone a 45 minute video in DVD format. The movie, produced
similar to real flights offered by
JUSTPLANES, will feature Dave and I flying the simulator
during a flight from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to
Toronto-Pearson International Airport. The flight will feature us departing
at dusk and arriving at dark and will include
up close and detailed explanations of our simulator instruments and controls.
Plus great footage of our new visual system.
The filming has already taken place and is now in the editing stage of completion.
Please check back as we will have
much more detailed information about the movie VERY SOON..........................
Anticipated release date around
mid March.
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February 17, 2003 - Well, we entertained guests over the weekend.
Two real world pilots, both employed by Comair,
visited and flew the sim like it was suppose to be flown. Well kind of..............
See the pictures HERE.
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January 15, 2003 - We had an honored
quest fly in to see and assist in our project. Mr. Ralph Robinson of
R&R Electronics, spent 2 1/2 days helping us convert from Epic ISA to
Epic USB. Several pictures of the simulator
partially operating have been posted HERE.
Ralph Robinson, R&R Electronics
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Ralph takes time out from programming
to toss us a smile. Ralph programmed several of the complicated systems
in our 767 overhead panel including the IRS unit. In addition, he tackled
many other issues such as autopilot displays and logic. In the second picture
you can see Ralph became good friends with our dog Kelsey. We joked that
Kelsey was there to assure Ralph didnt get away before the job was done!
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January 6, 2003 - New pictures of visuals being configured added
HERE. Also, added a explanation page showing how our
project is "hardware designed". See it HERE.
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January 1, 2003 - We want to wish everyone, everywhere, a happy
and prosperous New Year!
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