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James’ Virtual Flight Deck!

James Price Air Traffic Controller – 28 Years

Private Pilot – 32 years Building Sims Since 1994

My Beginning… • How did I get started? • CompuServe FSFORUM

My First Version 1994 • Real B727 Throttle Pedestal • Real B727 Overhead Panel • Real Control Wheel From Piper • Real Gear Lever From Piper • R&R Electronics EPIC I/O Card

My First Version 1994

• FS 5 With Photorealistic Gauges • ThunderSeat

Forging Ahead! • Started building full size cockpit 1996-97 • Met Matt Ford and Matt Wietlispach • Went to auction in Victorville, CA • Acquired overhead panel modules • Acquired seats, gear lever, and FCM • Acquired yokes, control columns, and throttle pedestal

Parts Warehouses • Miami • Seattle • Mojave • Victorville

Flight Deck Version 2

• Base constructed of plywood • Control column assembly integrated into base

Flight Deck Version 2

Flight Deck Version 2

Flight Deck Version 2 • Reconditioned throttle pedestal

Flight Deck Version 2 • Notice the large projection TV • CDU cage mounted to throttle

pedestal determined location of major assemblies

Flight Deck Version 2 • Poster board template • Aluminum Instrument Panel

Flight Deck Version 2

SimFest 1999 • Matt Ford, Matt Wietlispach, Ted Deller • Overhead module rewiring • EPIC Programming

SimFest 1999 • The Four Stooges ;-)

SimFest 1999

• Amazing progress was made

Version 2 Finale • Many refinements • Project Magenta Released • Panel Mods • WidevieW Integration

Almost 14 years later here we are, Peter has built an amazing simulator business catapulting flight simulation into the next millenium, and I am just

old and play in my garage a lot!

Circa 1999 – Some Nice Guy Named Peter Cos Sends Me This

Graphic For My Web Page! ;-)

Time To Get Real! - Version 3 Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA

Version 3 Is Born! Purchased Actual B737 Cockpit Shell – April 2000

Delivery – June 2000 Arrives at Livermore Airport (KLVK)

Delivery – June 2000

Delivery – June 2000

Her new temporary home - KLVK

Delivery – June 2000

Restoration Begins

• Removed 300 pounds of wire • Removed 400 pounds of aluminum shell

Removing Everything

Trimming The Fuselage

Building Base Frame

Going Horizontal!

First Night Taxi

Cleaning, Painting, Restoring • Pressure Water Spraying • De-greasing • Masking and Painting

More Restoration

Restoration

Wiring Main busses Bus relays

Wiring – Forward Busses

Wiring – Power Bus 1 Located behind F/O circuit breakers

Control Linkage Integration • Fabricated Pulley Assembly • Connected to slide pot wired to EPIC • Yokes Linked by cable

Control Linkage Integration Left brake pot Pitch damper

Roll bungee Spoiler linear actuator

Control Linkage Integration

Tiller damper Rudder damper

Tiller pot assy Tiller pot mounted to damper

R&R Electronics EPIC Installation • Main expansion module & gauge module

behind captain circuit breaker panels • Connect to all instrument panels via

modular Cockpit Simulations International EMDA cards

• Power provided from main power bus

EMDA Card Integration EPIC Output Modules near rear overhead panel Anti Ice module

Window Heat module Fuel Pump module

Interior Trim Installation

Interior Trim Installation

SimFest 2003• Frantic EPIC coding to get her to fly! • Many key players visiting including: • Peter Dowson (FSUIPC) • Enrico Schiratti (Project Magenta) • Ralph Robinson (R&R Electronics EPIC) • Austin Meyer (X-Plane) • Doyle Nicolas (GoFlight) • Ted Deller (CSI) • Matt Ford

SimFest 2003Ted and Ralph programming Enrico and Austin collaborating

Pete and Enrico flying Ralph flying

Time For A New Software Solution • We reached and were rapidly exceeding dual EPIC’s capacity • Work began on “SimControl”, our 737 system logic solution • SimControl interfaces directly with EPIC and FSUIPC/XPUIPC, allows us total

control and unlimited capacity by programming it in Visual Basic • Over the next ten years SimControl evolves to include nearly every 737 avionics

system simulation • Virtual panel modules allow control via software OR hardware

“SimControl”

Instructor Station

Instructor Station • Current location of Instructor Station

software • All touchscreen interface • Also available on the iPad via VNC

SimFest 2005• New MCP and EFIS panels installed • First attempt at wrap around projection screen using three LCD

projectors • 737 NG NAV/COM radio heads assembled using custom GoFlight radio

module kits

SimFest 2005

SimFest 2005

SimFest 2005

SimFest 2005 Crew • From left to right: Doyle Nicolas, James Price, Dave Little, Bill Trinidad, Alan Dyer,

Matt Wietlispach, Ted Deller, Robert Prather

2009 – The Big Move • Bought home with room for the cockpit in the garage • Cut two feet off the bottom of cockpit to allow to fit in garage • Removed rear wall and cockpit door to allow for traditional simulator instructor area

2009 – The Big Move

2010 Flight Deck Solutions and Sim-Avionics

Enter My Flight Deck!

FDS PRO-MX CDU & Sim Avionics

FDS + SA = AWESOME! • Amazing FDS CDU PRO-MX hardware • Comprehensive 737/777 systems logic with Sim-Avionics software suite • Perfect integration between FDS CDU hardware and Sim-Avionics software • Compatibility with X-Plane 9 & 10 via XPUIPC by Torsten Spiering

Flight Deck Solutions + Sim-Avionics

X-Plane 10 Clouds

X-Plane 10

X-Plane 10

April 2012 - Current

Special Thanks To Peter And Steve Cos For The Opportunity To Be Here

James Price credo:

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win

by fearing to attempt." William Shakespeare