Plans for cockpit building....

[Mictheslik]

I was just asking whether anyone can recommend the location of any plans to assist in the building of a Boeing cockpit (737 or 747....hasn't been decided yet) from scratch?

A few fellow students and I are setting up a flight simulator society within our engineering department (that already has a Nimrod cockpit, Tomahawk Cockpit, J41 cockpit and 2 full motion sims in various state of repair)

We're planning on a long term project (c.3-4 years) for the society that's completely new as well as helping to improve/repair the sims we already have. Skilled manpower isn't an issue, nor is space. We can also obtain some ongoing funding for it. We just need some drawings and dimensions to work from

.mic (If we get this off the ground so to speak, I'll definitely post updates here!)

[JBaymore]

Hotdamn!~!!!!! 

Nice position to be in.

I am almost sure that there are such links back in this forum section in older threads.  It won't be instant, but I'll see what I can find.  You should start searching too.

And yes... please post pics of whatever you are working on. 

best,

...............john

[Mictheslik]

An update to this....

The 737 idea is on hold. Instead we are going to be a little less ambitious in our first project and work on a partly build sim within the department.

It's a full scale Tornado GR4 front cockpit section built by BAe systems to aid cockpit layout development. It is completely bare apart from 3 MFD screens installed a few years ago and a throttle and constructed from 10mm dural (it's bloomin heavy)

Work started today prepping the body for a move into our workshop. We have 40 interested student engineers and almost all the parts we need for the build already (as it's been something the department have been meaning to get done for about 10 years now!) I'll start a new thread with pictures and updates

.mic

[JBaymore]

.mic,

Exciting.  Can't wait to see the images.

best,

.............john

[wifesaysno]

Holy crap on a cracker now that is my kind of engineering school!

[Evan Popchock]

You could also go to this website that has simple homemade cockpit installations:  http://www.rogerdodger.net/diyflightsim ... html  I'm eventually purchasing one of these.  Hope this helps.

Regards,
Evan