My PIC767 Based Sim...Latest photos

[Guest bowingic]

Hi allAs a change of pace, I thought you might like to see some photos of recent developments with my sim.Photos show glareshield lighting now installed, NAV/OBS units in operation and FMC CDU now completed. The glareshield lighting uses ultra bright amber LED's, sanded to diffuse, and is fully adjustable using a simple circuit from Mike's site (thanks Mike...it works a treat!)

[kiek]

Hi Ian,It looks great! Your nav1/obs units look more real then mine, with the man/auto switch and the dual rotaries.It's not very clear in the picture but it looks as if you also have an indicator led in the man/auto switch, am I right? If so, how do you get that info out of the PIC767 sim?Best regards,Nicowww.nicokaan.nl

[Guest bisinchi]

Hi, It looks very nice,Francois

[JAT]

Looking goodNebojsa

[AWACS]

This is way beyond my degree of technical knowledge, and since I have so many questions about how you did this stuff, I'll only ask one;How much is this project going to cost you in the end? As I'm sure you have multiple monitors and a few computers running FS to get maximum frame rates and stuff.Jeff USAF

[Guest bowingic]

Hi allThanks for the kind words. I actually meant to put the pictures attached here to show the lights.Nico....I'm afraid I don't have any output to the auto/manual switch. I have placed an LED in there to illuminate in Auto mode but it is not connected....hoping Flight1 might eventually help us with the LDS767....no harm in wishful thinking!Jeff...regarding all up cost when completed in maybe 4 years I'm not sure....but it may not cost as much as you think. I have tried to keep this on the low budget side. To give you some idea....the entire shell including paint, and car seats from a wrecker etc cost me about $300US.Yes there are multiple monitors....I picked up two 21 inch screens on Ebay for $15US(described with faults but only minor), a 19 inch for $150US.It all runs off one pc (Athlon 2100,Radeon 9800 Pro and two TNT2 cards and one BW TV for CDU from Svideo port on main video card). Frame rates are quite flyable, but I am upgrading the pc shortly. I have a second pc (old Celeron) to use for ATC and weather download. My purchased items are a second hand game port CH yoke $100US, secondhand FDS 767 overhead ($500US) and second hand Aerosoft MCP ($350US)....I was lucky to find these thingsI've pre ordered a Simavionics throttle quad...$350USI purchased pcb's and components for FSbus....not sure of the total but quite economical.Made my own FMC CDU and NAV/OBS radios....thanks to NICO for his inspiration and ideas here and elsewhere in my project!I'll let you do the sums but I'm expecting to get out of this for about $4000 US or less in the long run. At $1000 per year that's not too extravagant for a hobby these days....particularly when you have a 767 of your own (slight exagerration!!!)I think a project can be kept to a reasonable figure if you are willing to shop around and make things yourself....there's plenty of help on these forums.Attached is another picture of the glareshield lighting.

[AWACS]

I'm blown away by this. This is incredible really. Wish I could do it, I'd spend the money, no problem, but I wouldn't know where to start on a project of this scale.Jeff USAF