L-1011 General Aircraft Characteristics: Door Locations - Dash 500 (25-11)

There are six passenger doors; three on the each side/ There are no overwing exits. The doors are identified as L-1, L-2, L-3 and R-1, R-2 and R-3. These doors may be opened electrically or manually. The controls are on a panel inside and forward of each door. Manual controls are outside next to the door, near the upper frame. In addition, the L-1 door is equipped with an external handcrank receptacle and electrical switch.

All cargo doors are on the lower right hand side of the aircraft. They are identified as C-1A, C-2 and C-3. C1A and C-2 holds may accommodate containerized and/or bulk cargo and baggage.

Whenever any door, cargo or passenger, is not properly closed and locked, an appropriate signal is illuminated on the Flight Engineer's Annunciator panel.

L-1011 Door Controller

Since there really is no consumer grade software, like xPlane, that provides door management controls, I went ahead and wrote myself a little controller that allows me to set the door status on the L-1011 simulator. The controller also sets the shared memory region for the physical device controller that connects to the Annunciator Panel on the Second Officer Station.

The first image above shows the door controls for the passenger doors, the emergency exits and the cockpit hatch.

The second panel allows me to control the cargo doors and the service center doors.


The the third panel I have designed to control the gear doors and the warning indicators for the S-Duct.


The code is written Obj-C and also controls a number of xPlane data refs for gear retraction and pressurization.