The past weekend was an important weekend. Those days were reserved for a full-fledged test flight to perform with a full, but provisional, setup. The flight was scheduled to Berlin (EDDT) to Brussels (EBBR).

At first it was all the hardware to get such as the Yoke, rudder, CDU, MCP, ICS, throttels, avionics and of course the MIP.

And not to mention a full-fledged FSLabs driver of the net pick for the PMDG to work with the MIP.

Then it was the turn of the screen-setup of the External view, PFD, ND, Upper and lower EICAS. And then a startup situation and afsaven.

The screen setup was a lot of fiddling to get everything in its right place to get both the TFT's in Windows as the PFD, ND and Eicas on the TFT's. Also, not all ‘situations’ I could load, however, via a detour... strange...

A downside was that the Gear lever is not working properly. It works the other way around than FS. The problem is passed on to FlyEngravity. It will probably be a plug on the gearswitchen that on a wrong place...

The frame rate fell. No noemswaardige problems encountered in Berlin (Add-On) and Brussels (Add-on).
Hereby I must mention that the flight offline has been executed and with little or no cloud cover.

As regards the flight itself, it is something to get used to. You have always the habit to go to the vliegtuigpanel in FS, to go instead to the hardwareuitvoering. For the rest everything works fine and it was a successful ‘flight test’. It gives an almost-real feeling. A very different dimension of flying and the experience of flightsim... (and it tastes like yet !).

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Today, the cockpitzetels arrived. 2 Pilot seats and 1 crew seat. The preparation and measuring can begin...

More info on page Hardware/Seats

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This week me amused with the introduction of ‘utilities’ in the cockpit such as power, LAN cabling, LAN switch, Internet, and USB hubs. His belly is once again full of cables...

More info about this on the page PC Setup

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• Mip-stand painted in Boeinggrijs;
• CDU-stand painted in grey-white;
• Rudder-stands painted in Boeingrijs;
• Finish ‘Rudder Pedal Adjustment section;
• Lower subpanels with buttons mounted (not connected yet);
• Ruddervloeren coated with aluminum;
• Application of text plates (Tags, decals, placards) on MIP and Rudder Pedal Adjustement’ part.
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  More photos on page Gallery.

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The coating of the ruddervloeren with aluminum is cut and pasted. Alu-plates of 1 mm is sufficient. Together with the permanent staff such as decopeerzaag, houtklemmen, screwdriver and metaalvijl is this job easily done.

The story of this job is to find on page Hardware/MIP/Rudder pedals – Stands.

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To the MIP bit more realistic to come true, I have MIP-tags engraving. This MIP-tags or placards are for different Airlines to find the MIP. The place where they should be applied are not determined by the CAA, they should clearly and visibly be made.

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The Rudder Pedal Adjustment kits are finished. Only the text under the buttons, I have to guess.

The real version

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Work principle to be finished in Boeing grey is similar as the application of the primerlagen. Only the determination of the correct gray Boeingkleur is a different story...

More info and photos on page Hardware/MIP/MIP stand

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An update is performed of the page Throttle Quadrant. This page provides an overview of the Standard TQ from Revolution Simproducts, and the use thereof.

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An update is performed of the page B737-800. What information is there to be found about the Boeing 737-800 and useful links.

27SQN B737-800 at Brussels Airport

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