The first collaboration project with the National Museum of Commercial Aviation will be the restoration and retrofit of a Lockheed L-1011 Cockpit Procedures Trainer. The equipment was given to the museum by Delta Airlines here in Atlanta. While the CPT was still working during de-installation, the original computer hardware is very old and very hard to maintain. Therefore, the idea will be to de-construct the original CPT hardware and re-build it using the x-plane software and National Instruments (NI) hardware stack. I will document the project efforts on the L-1011 CPT here with this blog as well as in the museum blog. Below is the proposed timeline that would make the L-1011 CPT ready for display by summer of 2013 which is an ambitious, but realistic timeline:
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The procedures trainer uses flight simulator specific instrumentation and does not have instrumentation in place for every system. Instrumentation that does not exist will be augmented with real flight hardware flown on a L-1011-1. Also, as typical for CPTs the instrument plates are not Type IV light plates. However, to make the CPT a more interesting exhibit item we will replace the simulated plates with light plates flown on an actual L-1011-500.
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The procedures trainer uses flight simulator specific instrumentation and does not have instrumentation in place for every system. Instrumentation that does not exist will be augmented with real flight hardware flown on a L-1011-1. Also, as typical for CPTs the instrument plates are not Type IV light plates. However, to make the CPT a more interesting exhibit item we will replace the simulated plates with light plates flown on an actual L-1011-500.
