Classic British Flight Sim

I'm new to this forum and just thought I would introduce myself.

I'm a big flight sim fan, and probably like many of you, I have been for years ( since C64,Sinclair Spectrum days )

My project at the moment is the conversion of the nose section of Fokker F27 friendship G-CEXD into a home sim running FSX

I'm running the F27 model by William Bruijns with the panel by Fraser Mckay, though of course as things progress I will actually be using my own panel.

All the best, Dean

Hello Dean

Welcome to the Forum

Sounds fascinating...would be great to see some pics sometime

ATB

Garry

This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago. I'm working on calibration issues with the engine instruments at the moment.

http://simflight.fotopic.net/p49771131.html



Dean

Hi Dean and welcome ;-)

Good luck with the project. Every boy should have his own flightdeck

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Hi Dean, and welcome

Interesting project you have there.

Hi Dean and welcome!

That looks an awesome project there. Are you using SimKits gauges?

Regards,

Please tell me he lives really near to me ???

looks brilliant.(And expensive with those gauges!)

I almost bought a 748 cockpit recantly but couldn't arrord the divorce if i actually had it delivered

Regards
Rick

Rick.....Buy it mate.......! ! !

I'll help with divorce costs if i can play with the 748 for a bit......

Tony

Welcome Dean.

I am sure you will enjoy your stay here.

Graham

Thanks for the warm welcomes from everybody.

I'm fortunate that my partner supports me with the simming , this is my second project the first was a Beechcraft Queenair, though she was a bit shocked at the size of the F27 nose when it arrived,and I did have to demolish the garage and build myself a timber "barn".

I am using Simkits instruments. I've designed my own faceplates using Coreldraw for the instruments that Simkits doesn't supply.

The surround sound system is fitted. At the moment I just have a monitor sitting on the coaming so that I can do testing, but basically the cockpit is "flyable" with the yokes and rudder pedals connected to a joystick board and the throttles connected to another joystick board.
When I sold the Queenair I kept the projector so I'll be using that on a custom 10' wide screen.

Dean