New member building a Dehavilland Dove.

[remcosol]

Hi Geremy! Thanks for your reply ! I must say that sometimes when im trying to build a piece I wished I could buy some bits because it can be quite frustrating at times but when it works its so satisfying and fun ! And sometimes works better than ready to buy bits for my type of aircraft if at all available But a lot of work !

[remcosol]

Nice Website and store by the way !

[remcosol]

Hello everybody!

This is going to be the last update of this year.

A lot of work has been done this year, and a lot of work still has to be done!

The opencockpits airbus radio has been fitted . I bought this one because one box can do all and i dont have the space for more at this time.

A compartment had to be made to put it in:





I needed one because the vor, ndb and dme are now working, together with the compasses!!!

The dme unit is from flightillusion:


Also the rudder trim handle has been connected on the throttle box and is now working:

Taking the throttlebox out:


Also had some room for painting so i did that before the throttlebox was placed back again:



A video of the rudder trim working:



Most work has gone into getting the compasses , vor and ndb working.

Also the altimeters have been improved. The biggest challenge was to get the right stepper motors that are fast and strong enough or else you cant use the instruments to their full potential. Toghether with the sioc script it was a lot of work.

The making of the steppermotors platform:







Connecting the compass wires:



Installing the unit behind the dash, its getting full......:








The hsi and rmi's installed again:



Tried a panoramic picture with an iphone:



Here they are:


And a lot of fine tuning!!!

Some clips of it all working:

The adf and vor needles:



Compass turning:



Radio and dme:




Some testing to see if all the instruments keep up:



Take off from ehkd:



Approach ehkd: (i dropped my camera at the end sorry)



A lot of work needs to be done still but thats gonna be done next year!

Happy holidays everyone!!!!!!!!!!!

[Piggles]

I'm looking forward to further updates Remco, great project and a superb subject.

[remcosol]

Thank you ! Hope it helps others als well !

[wohnlich]

How is the project going? Looking forward to seeing another update on your amazing project!

[Avro748]

Wohnlich, I have a bad feeling that we won't be hearing from him anytime soon. We haven't heard anything in over a year.

[remcosol]

Hi everybody!

the year is almost ending and i am finally able to show a little preview of what has been done this year.

Almost everything has been taken apart and put back together....

more later but for now a preview:

beginning march :


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Now ( not done yet but no more time this year):
More pictures and movie clips later, it is now fully functional and all weather





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[remcosol]

And sorry for the late update , it has been a busy year !

Lot has been upgraded and installed .

3 new 27 inch monitors have been installed
A new flightcontrol interface
new overhead panel
ice detector (working)
carb heat switches
panel improvements
Wiring improvements
made cockpit surroundings
lots of software fine tuning and improvements
painting... Lots of it
And probably a lot if stuff I forgot !

Im trying to upload a clip but it's not working for some reason ...
here are some more pics:

Building the exterior.









And the "power off " result



ill upload more pictures and clips later to demonstrate it working .
More details will be uploaded! And more work needs to be done next year.

[remcosol]

Earlier this year I updated the page but it went missing after the server move so if I have some time I'll do a bigger update