New member building a Dehavilland Dove.

[Jim NZ]

Nice work again Remco ,, I take my hat off to you.

I always get a thrill with your updates as I can relate to what your doing ,, sure beats the B&P&P (Buy & plug & play) brigade.

Keep the updates coming tho ,, their great.

Cheers ,,, Jim

[remcosol]

Thank you Jim !

I will post more soon !

[Shawn]

That is incredible work! This is now my favorite sim on the internet, looking forward to seeing another video.

Shawn

[remcosol]

For Some reason I can't upload from my phone to photobucket so I have to wait until I get home this weekend for some movie clip uploads....

[wohnlich]

Yes, please post some updates. Really would love to see that baby fly again.
As has been said numerous times, this is really one of the most amazing cockpit projects.
You mention that it flies and everything works - why do you feel more work needs to be done?
Out of curiosity, what kind of room is the sim built into? Will it be removable if you decide to move some day?

[remcosol]

Hello Wohnlich !

this afternoon I'll try to upload more ,

Its build in quite a small attic , that's the reason why it's not closed at the back side . It can be dismantled , would take some time to do but is built in a way it can be done with possible moving in the far future in mind .

The reason why I want to do more work is because it's not all finished ,bodywork needs more work and side panels need to be moved. A whiskey compass is waiting installment as well . And I'm not 100 pct happy with the steering feel which is already rebuild .

Ill do my best with a couple of clips !

[remcosol]

Well finally i've been able to upload some stuff!


The reason why i took most of the cockpit apart was because i wanted to improve the steering feel. So i upgraded it from a wooden platform to an aluminium platform with proper ball-baring housing and better more accurate potentiometers and good oil filled extension springs, backed up by normal extension springs. The same was done with the rudders for a more accurate feel.

Old:


New:

The next project was wiring, trying to improve on the wiring to make it a bit better , simpler and install an open cockpits relays board for realistic system behavior and to be able to use a actual working icing detector (yes it can be done with an fsuipc offset) and extra marker lights.

Wires:



Clip:
Computer tweaking with the old screens, nl 2000 v4+ and Amsterdam X aerosoft:


Also the visual system had to be improved , going from 3x samsung 23 inch to 3x lg 27 inch ( LG IPS277L). They are a lot sharper and have much better viewing angles than my old ones. Also a lot brighter, almost too bright i had to turn them way down but hey have realistic night view now as well. And the bezel is a lot thinner.







no side windows yet:


with side windows night:


night: (no exterior)


night clip:

day clip in Greece:



The panel itself has been filled with more instruments and blanks plus the ice detector and the carb.heat switches plus extra marker beacon lights.

Panel right side with marker beacons and ice detector panel with carb heat.


Putting it back together:






night clip instrument panel:



The other big project as seen above was the exterior, all made from mostly aluminium. That took a long time. Plexiglas windows (side only) have been installed with a white layer. (see above)

At this moment i'm finishing the ovhd panel with the radio , transponder, audio-selection and more circuit breakers in it. And i have changed some plackards on the main instrument panel

So what is the thing now capable of?

The flight model has got accurate weight and balance and fuel usage so you need and can do realistic flight planning.
Its got 2 vhf radios 2 vor's (one is combined with ils) 2dme's and marker lights so cat1 precision and non precision approaches in icing conditions can be done. And it has got realistic single engine properties (not great in this old bird) so that can be trained as well.

Im using nl2000 v4+ scenery so even some vfr flying can be done and the airplane can land on grass runways .

Two vfr nl2000 v4 clips at the dutch coastline near zandvoort:






What still needs to be done:
Finish exterior,
fine tune
finish ovhd panel
install whiskey compass
P3D V2.0 ?
Better quality clips !
and lots more........

[remcosol]

Just tried to make some better quality pictures, I know some are kinda the same as before but because it's almost Christmas I could not stop myself posting them

The overhead panel is finished:



Some close ups of the overhead, it includes audio control , the radio has been moved here and the transponder ,last but not least fasten seat belts and no smoking lights:











The ice detector panel and carb heat :



The turn and slip indicator needs red lights in stead of white.


And some one more panel overview ones:

Left panel





center panel



right panel





Happy holidays everybody!!!

Ill make some more detailed movies in the future.

request can be done

[Jim NZ]

Nice Remco and thanks again ,, Jim

[remcosol]

Thanks Jim !