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| L-1011 Seat Installation |
I am finally able to slowly continue work on the L-1011 simulator. Unfortunately, I was not able to raise any contributions for the L-1011 project, and that's alright. The project will go on, just not at the pace I would have loved to move it forward. Today Jim Blasco and myself installed the captain's and first officer's seat into the procedure trainer. We are still short the original second officer's seat, but I hope that over time we will be able to find one.
The image at the beginning of the posting shows the first officer side and the 4" cutout required to place the spring loaded hight adjustment of the seat into the base plate of the procedure trainer. Unlike other aircraft cockpit seats, the L-1011 seats do not require rails. All horizontal movement of the captain's and the first officers's seats is done as an integral part of the seat assembly. The seats are also fully motorized and I will show the motor action in one of the upcoming postings.
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| L-1011 Cockpit - Capt. and F/O Seats installed. |
Of course, as you can see in the image below, the cockpit is still completely open on all sides. To make the simulator feel more cockpit like, we will enclose the cockpit with the actual L-1011 cockpit ceiling and side panels as well as the actual L-1011 cockpit windows.
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| L-1011 Seats installed and moved to extreme outboard position. |
I have also stared planning work for closing in the cockpit with the ceiling panels and windows that we have the L-1011 cockpit. Below is a picture of us trying on some of the ceiling panels and starting the work on building a super structure to hold them and the window panes.
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| L-1011 F/O side ceiling panel. |
The aft ceiling panels contain the pilot's overhead speaker. You can see that in the image above and below in the forward part of the panel.
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| L-1011 F/O side ceiling panel. |
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