Hi Terry, Whilst you are at that stage just give some thought to the number or tension on the springs for the yoke. When we next schedule a full stripdown we will surely increase the tension on the yokes. Also give some thought to the height of the yoke column. You'll have it close to your specs but you'd be surprised at the different height of people who will come for a fly and trouble with the yoke hitting their thighs. I don't have the correct answer but of course your choice of seat really matters in determining the final length. Just something for you to start musing about. Thanks Mark. I did spend some time on spring tensions previously, so hopefully I have it close to right. BTW, I don't have the simulator in an ideal position so I will need to do a stripdown later this year ! Progress update - all my panels largely assembled and mounted. Now the wiring begins ! Where possible I plan to use quick connect fittings on the backlit panels - with the aim of cutting down on direct soldering to AML switches, toggles etc And just like that Terry, your project looks more put together than mine does! Looks awesome and it's always exciting seeing new sims coming together. (Or in this case an old sim being put back together) Looks like you will meet your goal of having enough of your sim together to start flying before the end of the year. That is awesome Terry.You are way further down the track than I thought. I have sprouted on in this forum for years that you must now get it flying. It is a way to keep your enthusiasm going but a better way to test how some of your panels, yokes, pedals, throttles, etc are performing. You also yearn for more modules to be up and going to help with the flying. Win win. Keep at it. Shortly after taking this photo I started removing panels to work on the wiring.... The panel LED lighting isn't connected yet. The LED's look bright, but that's a camera effect - only 5 volts ! We moved to our new dwelling in Perth about 2 years ago and I have been busy with renovations on the 35 year old house. During this time I have been working on a couple of mini projects which included completion of Randy's rudder pedals (thanks Carol). New laminated flooring was completed about 4 months ago which gave me the green light to start re-assembly of the Learjet 45 Sim. Before that I decided to upgrade all my furniture (apart from the base) to V2. Here is my first progress photo! I have supported everything on 4 corner dollys. Each dolly has 5 wheels and I have used plywood squares to further distribute the load. Maximum allowable load is about 800 kg (~1800 lbs). I have made some good progress over the last week. Thanks to Ron for all his ongoing support! What you can't quite see is an elevated desk that will be supporting three 32" (2560×1440 pixel) curved screen monitors. They will span a width of over 1.2 metres (4 ft). The panels on the centre pedestal are all loose and populated purely for the purpose of this photo! I have the missing audio control panels, still in the process of mounting them to the MIP.Project Restart !
Here's a progress photo of my rebuild as of a few months back...
Control columns attached !
I received Ron's DU's last week and have now completed all the panel wiring as per the V2 documentation.
At last, I have the FGC panel completed !
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