On 2 and 3 november 2013 is the FSWeekend held in the Aviodrome in Lelystad (NL).

If everything goes according to plan we will be there again... ��
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On the front windows (windshield) are the folding handles, and they serve as a ‘helping hand’ to make it easier in and out of the tight space (a chair) to get.

These handles, I can find at Conrad.be and sold as a meterhandgrepen (tools for measuring). They are available in 2 sizes : 100 mm and 120 mm. This meterhandgrepen look the same as the handles used in the real B737. Only they cost less and they are of a different color (chrome-plated).

After some research on various forums is 100 mm (center axis/axis), the common size which is used in the real B737.

They are supplied with nuts and washers. The handle is lined with black plastic and is equipped with a veervergrending.

This folding handles come in later at the front ceiling of the cockpit.

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As preparation for the making of the ‘Window Liners’ is figuring out what materials I can best use.

I first thought it was MDF-wood but that is much too cumbersome and too heavy.

I've been in contact with hobbyists in the modelbouwwereld that submarines in the other crafts, and they advise me to try with styrofoam. Not the white styrofoam that you can find in the Brico or Gamma but specific insulation styrofoam with a minimal grain and good density such as Styrodur and Polyfoam.

Since the local hardware store no Styrodur and Polyfoam I'm going to experiment with Polyfoam.

The goal is to have these Polyfoam in a particular form, edit it with Epoxy and woven glass cloth and then finish it with shipping to most european countries.

The Polyfoam, Epoxy, glass cloth and shipping to most european countries I've been in-house but I must wait with my experiments up to the spring in the country and it gets warmer. Epoxy can be processed from a temperature of 18° to 25°. And for the health is that indoors is not an option.

In the meantime, I have some tests done with Polyfoam and who are all promising ...
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For a little more space to have behind the cockpit and in the cockpit is a nice screen with a dark curtain, I have a 65 cm forward.

Now that I'm closer to the projection display is, I have to deal with the FS ‘crabbing’effect (FS is not made for cockpits with a left-hand or right-hand seat). M. a.w. when I am pretty lined up with the runway (e.g. in final and without wind) is it correct or I diagonally (in the crab) to the runway fly.

In order to solve this problem I made a few adjustments to do in the panel.cfg of the aircraft:

//Move eyepoint: Left/Right (neg – left), Up/Down (neg – down), Forward/Back (t – back)
VIEW_FORWARD_EYE=-1.0, 1.0, 0,0

//Rotate view in Pitch (Up – nec), Roll (Left neg), Heading (Left – neg)
VIEW_FORWARD_DIR=0.0, 0.0, 5.0

The values above are the values that I've used in FS9 for a correct JETSTREAM 737-800 CAPT chair and this without ‘Crabbing’. These values can be used as a reference for other setups. It is also the intention what to ‘play’ with the listed numbers so that one may get an optimal image.
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In the past I have been a few comments received from a number of website visitors that the red color of the walls in my ‘cockpit room’ not particularly attractive.

I found them not very fit to the whole, and especially the red reflection bothered terrible at taking photos.

These are the ‘SM-like’ red walls of the past. To what in the ‘genre’ to stay I've got them repainted in ‘Gothic black’. The rest I left white.

No more problems with photos and it gives an extra darkening of the environment during the fly.

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