Tour of my DIY 737 home cockpit

[Music] hi everyone I had a few requests for a full tour of the cockpit so let's have a quick tour it's hard to get a detailed look at the outside of the cockpit in its current state so I'll show some pictures from when I was assembling the cockpit the cockpit is made mainly out of laser cut aluminum and I guess it's fairly apparent that I haven't put much effort into making the outside of the cockpit aesthetically pleasing here it's form following function all the way one of the main design criterias has been to make a compact cockpit as there is limited space available for reference this room is 12 square m the compact design and limited space available eliminates projectors and curved screens for the outside visuals instead I'm using three 4K 65 in TVs to op imiz the footprint and reduce cost I've mounted the TVs on some DIY stands made from aluminum tubing and plywood ideally I would have selected larger TVs however I got the 65 in TVs for jeap still the achieved field of view is approximately 200° which I find sufficient especially when using curtains to block out the rest of the outside view another question that pops up is what PC specs I'm using to run the simulator first it might be informative to know that I'm running Microsoft fly simulator and Pro SIM 737 which is a 737 add-on similar to pmtg which focuses on Hardware cockpits the main computer that runs Microsoft flight simulator has an AMD 5,600 X Nvidia RTX 490 and 32 gigs of memory with the dlss 3 and frame generation on I'm achieving between 30 to 60 60 FPS with everything except LOD on Ultra depending of course on scenery quality my impression is that I'm CPU limited and I have a AMD 5,800 x3d ready to install I do also have a secondary computer to run the instrument displays this is a feature of Pro SIM 737 that allows instrument displays to be distributed over additional PCS via Network the secondary computer is an old computer had laying around with an Intel i5 2500k three Nvidia GT 710s and 8 gigs of memory in addition to the instrument displays the secondary computer is also running the instructor station where I can manipulate the flight scenario now let's have a detailed look at the inside of the cockpit where I put a lot of effort into making it feel like a proper 737 the simulator is a DIY project where I have designed and built everything myself except the glare seals and the throttle quadrant I'm planning to make a video on how I built the cockpit diving into the design process part manufacturing and assembly if this sounds interesting I would suggest that you subscribe to not miss that video when it comes out [Music] for improved immersion I've added tactile transducers under each seat seats that I will replace in the near future another modification I made is a panel to adjust the view so it fits the pilot flying the reason why this is needed is the misalignment between the vanishing point of the image on the Monitor and where the vanishing point should be for the pilot flying in a real plane this is due to the seating position being offset from the center of the monitor this is also a drawback of positioning the outside view very close to the pilot as I've done in this cockpit in Microsoft flight simulator the only way to mitigate this issue is to rotate the view so it fits the pilot flying another addition I'm currently working on is improving the interior lighting my goal is to have the interior lighting follow the exterior light conditions so when it's dark outside there's no light in the cockpit unless I turn on the flood light or the panel lights as with all large DIY projects there are things that are not completed there are gaping holes for the clocks the flap gauge and the brake pressure gauge I made all the parts I'm just waiting for the next maintenance breake to install them so this was a brief introduction to my cockpit I do have exciting plans for additional features such as to off motion and force feedback yolks which I will cover in future videos I hope you have enjoyed this quick cockpit tour thanks for watching 100 50 40 1 20 [Music] 10

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Length: 5min 21sec (321 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 20 2023