Mylar mirror for Simulator Cockpit

[jthiani]

Excellent suggestions from Gene and Wayne ...... i always listed to the experienced ones !!

[durgaprasadzone]

Thanks. I was searching the same information since many months. Thanks for your hard work.

[Efe Cem Elci]

Well the reason mylar is used is because it is a pretty much perfect surface when stretched tight. Paint, chrome or not, is only as perfect as the surface it is applied to and more often deteriorates in visual quality exponentially depending on the method used to put it on a surface. Not to mention it is more easier to create the correct spherical section by using mylar stretched into a concave shape than to "roughly" create said shape. Remember that the shape is very important and takes a boatload of calculations to determine otherwise you'll end up having to play pin the tail on the donkey (or move the mylar mirror around to find a location where pilots are not looking at the wall and ceiling behind the cockpit).

Trust me, we have three ginormous spherical sections with plaster surfaces in front of our FNPT device, currently acting as support for a rather large piece of mylar that was cut out of our Level D FFS during its yearly mirror change. The workers manage to drop it when moving it to the FNPT room so its essentially useless in the long term but it will be good practice for applying it to the mylar frame and showing the bosses that it can be done, thus freeing up funds to purchase a new roll of the stuff for the actual application.