HOME COCKPIT from DIY to OEM
A sad day for Slovenian aviation, Adria airways went bankrupt today after 58 years. What a big loss for Slovenia and European regional aviation. The spirit of this airline inspired me and made me follow into this aviation hobby. The
Last month I received a sad news that my dear friend and A320 cockpit builder Holt McMinn passed away at his home after a long battle with terminall illness. Holt was really a great inspiration to me and also to many other Airbus
For all of you who asked me where to get all sort of rare OEM interior liners, covers, side panels, lights, bins and other cockpit parts for your home cockpit, I now have a direct answer WWW.AVOEMPARTS.COM. This is a fresh
I am still busy but I managed to work a bit on the genuine MIP frame. You might be asking what is there to work… Well fitting the screens in there can be quite a challenging task! You will be faced with
I am still here after taking a longer break away from the cockpit and parts. A few months went by and before I knew it was six months… and in these months I didn’t have any time for A320 build or web
Left and right glare wings together with FCU form a glareshield positioned between front windows and main instrument panel. Panels are basically identical only mirrored. Both have : AUTO LAND indicator that illuminates red at or below 200 feet if there is a
After Jürgen shared his direct transducer pot output approach with linear output conclusion, I knew my log results might have be premature but that was the output I first got. This somewhat logarithmic sidestick story fitted so well and everyone I consulted with somehow
After successfully putting together that one working RMP it was time to find another two for testing frequency dialog bus between all three RMP’s I was interested in. The remaining two RMP’s where supplied by APOC Aviation, one of my favorite
This year started with some time off the cockpit, panels, diagrams, web… It is now time to continue where I left off. I finished with the 22VU ENG/VENT/CARGO SMOKE panel and put together a 22VU panel pin-out diagram. Panel 22VU is located
I guess everybody noticed spot patterns on older panels. Sometimes they appear as slightly brown colored spots or brighter spots that are usually accompanied with varnish layer peeling off . These spots will appear above backlight lamps and are the consequence of
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