Mel writes:

Guys,

Seems like each of you, in one way or another, keep me in this simulation hobby because of all of your WORK for that hobby.....so I just have to show you the latest rendition of my cockpit....proudly showing off the new circuit breaker panel addition in the overhead area!

I just have a lot of fun from YOUR work!

I fly the DC-3 with a highly modified glass cockpit.....and along with the Soundblaster Extigy external USB sound system that is powered by a Creative Labs 5100 Dolby digital.........the sounds of two Pratt radials on a rainy afternoon while enroute to ORD is kinda cozy!

Regards,

Mel Ott

• RE: More cockpit shots from Mel!!,Tarmack, 22:02z, 03-28-02
  • RE: More cockpit shots from Mel!!,Ben Chiu, 02:19z, 03-29-02

Ben,

Thanks very much for posting the "new' DC-3 Cockpit.

The addition of the overhead circuit breaker panel has really enhanced the "realism" factor when I slide.......well....when I slither into my seat. Grin.

I don't know why I put off something so simple for so long.....

To get the 'suspension' area...first picture a room with the normal 4 walls. I fit my cockpit into that room so that it faces one corner of that room.....it points directly at the "meeting" of two walls.

I purchased two "extension" poles at Home Depot....the kind that you might use to attach a sponge or a scraper to allow you to reach high places/windows on the side of your house.

I simply mounted a shelf bracket on each wall....and then extended the poles the required length so that each could fit into a shelf bracket. I mounted another shelf bracket further out from the original two.....and then suspended another pole from those two.

Then, using very light foam/cardboard from Office Depot.....black in color.....the 'roof' was formed by laying that foam sheet(S).....4 X 6 feet.... on the top of the two poles.

I then went up into our attic and retrieved the Christmas lights of last season. grin. I had remembered purchasing a 4 x 6 foot "mesh" lights that allow you to "wrap" around a porch column or to lay over your landscaping bushes for decorative lighting.

I made 150 holes in a grid pattern, using a 2 x 3 foot size.....using a 1/8 inch drill bit.......and then simply pressed each individual bulb into the hole....the cardboard/foam is about 1/4 inch thick...and the lights are very snug in those holes.

I did leave ONE hole unfilled.

That way.......I can say to my wife........."Hey....I think I have a circuit breaker out."

Grin.

Cap'n Tarmack

> That way.......I can say to my wife........."Hey....I think I have a
> circuit breaker out."

LOL!

That's something my wife is going to say to me (except replace the "I" with "you"), when I start my cockpit setup.

Thanks for the pix and update, Mel!

Ben

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