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Today we started the installation of the L-1011 Cockpit Procedure Trainer at the National Museum of Commercial Aviation here in Atlanta. Jay, Adam, Jim, Richard and myself moved the trainer from our storage facility to the sim room at the museum. As described previously, we are planing on making the trainer highly interactive and available to museum visitors as part of a Flight Discovery program. The image above shows where we left it at the end of today. We pretty much have the following components assembled:
1. The Forward Simulator Platform
2. The Aft Simulator Platform
3. The Left and Right Pilots Console
4. The Main Instrument Panel
5. The Center Console
The diagram below shows the components that are now installed in the sim room outlined in blue:
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| L-1011 Flight Controls Prior to Installation |
The image above shows the L-1011 Trainer yokes. The yokes have torque generators for both pitch and roll. The torque generated is very similar to the L-1011 with functioning hydraulic systems. In the image blow you can see the yokes installed into the forward platform of the the L-1011 trainer.
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| L-1011 Trainer - Progressive Installation - Yokes |
Next, we installed the empty main instrument panel. The big gap in the middle is the place where the center console goes. The yellow handles are the manual gear release handles that are simulated in the L-1011 trainer as a functioning element.
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| L-1011 Trainer - MIP Installation |
To finish out the installation today we put the center console in place. Below you see that the center console still has the photo-simulated instrumentation in place that will be replaced with the real instrumentation once the complete trainer is installed.
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| L-1011 Center Console Installation |
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