Last update 2006-11-12
It all begun at the beginning of 2002, when I first installed the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 on my computer. I enjoyed it more and more and and eventually started to fly online on VATSIM network. It was getting more serious every flight but it was still in the constraints of a single monitor. Every time I needed to change some settings of the plane I had to switch between various screens, which was not really good for proper flying.
2002-12-20
Some nice spring day of 2003 I got an idea of simple hardware add-ons to make my flying better and easier. I bought a double display graphic card and additionally used a simple PCI board, what allowed me to connect 3 monitors to one computer. I was able to fly the Boeing 737-400 developed by Dreamfleet in the following way: the middle, biggest and main screen displayed the main instrument panel + outside view of the plane; the upper monitor was used for overhead panel; the right one for FMC + radio stack - there was no more switching between the panels! What is more - I also networked a laptop, which was used for all the utility programs needed to fly on VATSIM and generate on-line weather. Thanks to that the main computer could use more power just for handling of the plane.
2003-04-13
That was a big setp forward but... There was still something missing. After certain period of time I decided to build as most realistic replica of a cockpit as I only can. I chose my favourite plane, which is Boeing 737 Next Generation (possible versions: 600/700/800/900). Since I can use only a little room for that i decided to build 2/3 of it but in 1:1 scale. I fly alone anyway, so place for the first officer would not be missing so much ;-).
Last week of 2003 was fully dedicated to vending: additional computers, cables and most important of all - proper software. The biggest challenge for me was to network 4 computers and run the software developed by Project Magenta, which allows to display apropriate cockpit instruments on separate screens.
2003-12-31
It was really something, that I liked! But still not enough. Day by day I was getting more frustrated because I had to click with the mouse on the switches and buttons shown on the screens. Luckily I found a great product made by CPFlight, I met the company owner in his flat in Como and immediately after presentation I bought fully workable autopilot module (MCP+EFIS).
2004-05-02
"Flying" got really much closer to reality. But it still was just a set of detached monitors standing on the desk. That was the right time to start panels construction. I was planning to buy cockpit parts from Flight Deck Soultions or Luchtvaart but just a few hours before sending the order to FDS I accidentaly got in contact with the real artist, Jakub Gaik from Andrychow - a small city in the south highlands of Poland. He makes real masterpieces, which are far cheaper than foreign competition!!
I was not thinking too long: I took a car, went to Jakub, looked at his stuff and placed an order at once! I brought the parts back home one day before Christmas 2004. Staright after holidays I started to work. Between Christmas and the New Year I spent 12-14 hours every day to destroy what I had in my small room, repaint it, connect the parts together, connect all the electronic equipment, synchronise and run it. On the New Year's Eve it all looked like that:
2004-12-31
It took me a few hours to get fit again after New Year party ;-) but I continued my work without any additional delay. I assembled and mounted the overhead panel and also did some fine tuning of the software on all computers. Today the cockpit is "flyable" and is shown on photos below:
2005-01-07
I am already after a few paterns around various airports to test the plane: It is absolutely marvellous! But... there are still a lot of bigger and smaller things to do. Most important of them for the next months are:
- implementing a fully workable, hardware Flight Management System
- backlighting of MIP and Overhead Panel (something like on MCP+EFIS)
- placing all necessary buttons, switches and annunciator lights on MCP+Overhead, connecting them to FSBUS and synchronising with PMSystems
- adding a fully workable throttle quadrant with all necessary levers for thrust, flaps, spoliers, trim etc.
Below is a link to a story describing how I was cheated by Horizon Flight Simulation company from USA owned by Michael Lehkamp, who claim to build professional yoke. I only lost $700, a lot of time and frustration.
This is a warning to any of his potential customers.
Click here
Those, who do not want to read all the story, just want to see how their terrible product looks like might want to go directly to the following links:
Big, high resolution photos
Smaller photos, especially for modem users.
Well, it has been a long since the last update. Unfortunately I have been mostly busy at work recently, that is why ihad no time for further development of my cockpit and, frankly, even flying.
But eventually vacation time arrived and I had to find some spare minutes. It allowed me to finish fully workable flight management system. It has a full keyboard, great backlighting and fantastic 5-inch display taken from Sony Playstation.
2005-08-15
I have recorder a short MOVIE (~2.8MB) showing how I am inserting some basic data.
If you want you may also watch a sample movie showing landing in HEGN (Hurghada, Egipt) with crosswind component reaching 40 knots:
Outside view (~2.5MB)
Cockpit view (~2.9MB)
Displays view (~3.0MB)
The toy is getting its shape :-). Now priority number 1 is a throttle quadrant with pedestal. I hope it is just a matter of a few weeks.
2005-08-27
The happiest day of my life! At 0:20 my son Marcin was born.
2005-12-31
It's been a long time since I flew a bit. My little son is dearly beloved and best int he world, but also really time consuming. Obviously since my priorities have completely changed since his birth.
At the end of the year I usually have a little bit of spare time, what allows me to upgrade the cockpit significantly. This week I did not have so much freetime as I would expect, but the cockpit grew anyway. I already have Throttle quadrant installed, central pedestal (not full due to lack of space, all radios only). All was initially connected and tested. I was also lucky to buy a nice 10" LCD monitor so I will make the lower EICAS :-). Due to forementioned lack of time fine tuning has to be postponed. Below a few pics from my Christmas/New Year activities:
2006-01-01
First photo of my little first officer in the cokpit :). He is not very much interested in it but must get used to it :).
2006-02-26
Today the simbuilding marathon has ended. Together with Tomek & Marek -> from today my gurus ;) we have been 'fighting' with the hardware for two long days & nights. FMC & lower EICAS were fine tuned. Throttle quadrant (with servodrives moving throttle & speedbrake handles) works just fantastic! Central pedestal allowing to change radio-navigational frequencies also works marvellous.
At the end - hit of the season: fully Funcional overhead panel!! I can say that it makes my work almost over. There are just some small 'make-up' to do. Now the toy is really nice :)
Below quickly made 6-minute movie showing how I start the engines with overhead panel:
High quality (640x480) (~44MB)
Medium quality (320x240) (~14MB)
2006-04-30
Today I can finally say that the job is over. Everything works perfectly as I expected. Unfortunately currently I do not have enough time to 'play' my toy but whenever I look at it a little smile appears on my face :). Well, a short while for a few traffic patterns around the airport also can be found from time to time.
2006-05-24
A photo of my flightdeck has been published today in a daily newspaper 'Dziennik'. Page called 'Hi-tec' contained a general article about PC flight simulators and hardware usually used with it. There is nothing particular about my toy in the article (just general 'blablabla) so I am not going to translate it. The photo is signed "Michal Buciak, aviation enthusiast built at home a full-size replica of Boeing 737". Below some photos of the newspaper's first page, then page 26 where you can find my photo ;).
Below a few more photos made by the newspaper's photographer:
2006-07-31
July 'Enter' (popular Polish monthly magazine dedicated to computers) wrote an article about virtual flying. There are a few sentences mentioning crazy people doing a little more than monitor and joystick ;). My cockpit is mentioned there and some photos illustrate what it means to build one.
2006-11-04
It's slowly becoming famous ;). Today's popular news program 'Teleexpress' (daily at 17:00 on 1st Polish National TV) showed a short info about my toy. I became a member of the famous 'Teleexpress Club of Positive Freaks' (every saturday they show people having a rare unknown hobby, and frankly, I don't know if the translation into English is good).
Teleexpress - higher quality (00:30~5MB)
Teleexpress - lower quality (00:30~1MB)
To be continued...
My photos on Airliners.net!
Return to the main page
(C) Butik 2001
2002-12-20
Some nice spring day of 2003 I got an idea of simple hardware add-ons to make my flying better and easier. I bought a double display graphic card and additionally used a simple PCI board, what allowed me to connect 3 monitors to one computer. I was able to fly the Boeing 737-400 developed by Dreamfleet in the following way: the middle, biggest and main screen displayed the main instrument panel + outside view of the plane; the upper monitor was used for overhead panel; the right one for FMC + radio stack - there was no more switching between the panels! What is more - I also networked a laptop, which was used for all the utility programs needed to fly on VATSIM and generate on-line weather. Thanks to that the main computer could use more power just for handling of the plane.
2003-04-13
That was a big setp forward but... There was still something missing. After certain period of time I decided to build as most realistic replica of a cockpit as I only can. I chose my favourite plane, which is Boeing 737 Next Generation (possible versions: 600/700/800/900). Since I can use only a little room for that i decided to build 2/3 of it but in 1:1 scale. I fly alone anyway, so place for the first officer would not be missing so much ;-).
Last week of 2003 was fully dedicated to vending: additional computers, cables and most important of all - proper software. The biggest challenge for me was to network 4 computers and run the software developed by Project Magenta, which allows to display apropriate cockpit instruments on separate screens.
2003-12-31
It was really something, that I liked! But still not enough. Day by day I was getting more frustrated because I had to click with the mouse on the switches and buttons shown on the screens. Luckily I found a great product made by CPFlight, I met the company owner in his flat in Como and immediately after presentation I bought fully workable autopilot module (MCP+EFIS).
2004-05-02
"Flying" got really much closer to reality. But it still was just a set of detached monitors standing on the desk. That was the right time to start panels construction. I was planning to buy cockpit parts from Flight Deck Soultions or Luchtvaart but just a few hours before sending the order to FDS I accidentaly got in contact with the real artist, Jakub Gaik from Andrychow - a small city in the south highlands of Poland. He makes real masterpieces, which are far cheaper than foreign competition!!
I was not thinking too long: I took a car, went to Jakub, looked at his stuff and placed an order at once! I brought the parts back home one day before Christmas 2004. Staright after holidays I started to work. Between Christmas and the New Year I spent 12-14 hours every day to destroy what I had in my small room, repaint it, connect the parts together, connect all the electronic equipment, synchronise and run it. On the New Year's Eve it all looked like that:
2004-12-31
It took me a few hours to get fit again after New Year party ;-) but I continued my work without any additional delay. I assembled and mounted the overhead panel and also did some fine tuning of the software on all computers. Today the cockpit is "flyable" and is shown on photos below:
2005-01-07
I am already after a few paterns around various airports to test the plane: It is absolutely marvellous! But... there are still a lot of bigger and smaller things to do. Most important of them for the next months are:
- implementing a fully workable, hardware Flight Management System
- backlighting of MIP and Overhead Panel (something like on MCP+EFIS)
- placing all necessary buttons, switches and annunciator lights on MCP+Overhead, connecting them to FSBUS and synchronising with PMSystems
- adding a fully workable throttle quadrant with all necessary levers for thrust, flaps, spoliers, trim etc.
Below is a link to a story describing how I was cheated by Horizon Flight Simulation company from USA owned by Michael Lehkamp, who claim to build professional yoke. I only lost $700, a lot of time and frustration.
This is a warning to any of his potential customers.
Click here
Those, who do not want to read all the story, just want to see how their terrible product looks like might want to go directly to the following links:
Big, high resolution photos
Smaller photos, especially for modem users.
Well, it has been a long since the last update. Unfortunately I have been mostly busy at work recently, that is why ihad no time for further development of my cockpit and, frankly, even flying.
But eventually vacation time arrived and I had to find some spare minutes. It allowed me to finish fully workable flight management system. It has a full keyboard, great backlighting and fantastic 5-inch display taken from Sony Playstation.
2005-08-15
I have recorder a short MOVIE (~2.8MB) showing how I am inserting some basic data.
If you want you may also watch a sample movie showing landing in HEGN (Hurghada, Egipt) with crosswind component reaching 40 knots:
Outside view (~2.5MB)
Cockpit view (~2.9MB)
Displays view (~3.0MB)
The toy is getting its shape :-). Now priority number 1 is a throttle quadrant with pedestal. I hope it is just a matter of a few weeks.
2005-08-27
That was a big setp forward but... There was still something missing. After certain period of time I decided to build as most realistic replica of a cockpit as I only can. I chose my favourite plane, which is Boeing 737 Next Generation (possible versions: 600/700/800/900). Since I can use only a little room for that i decided to build 2/3 of it but in 1:1 scale. I fly alone anyway, so place for the first officer would not be missing so much ;-).
Last week of 2003 was fully dedicated to vending: additional computers, cables and most important of all - proper software. The biggest challenge for me was to network 4 computers and run the software developed by Project Magenta, which allows to display apropriate cockpit instruments on separate screens.
2003-12-31
It was really something, that I liked! But still not enough. Day by day I was getting more frustrated because I had to click with the mouse on the switches and buttons shown on the screens. Luckily I found a great product made by CPFlight, I met the company owner in his flat in Como and immediately after presentation I bought fully workable autopilot module (MCP+EFIS).
2004-05-02
"Flying" got really much closer to reality. But it still was just a set of detached monitors standing on the desk. That was the right time to start panels construction. I was planning to buy cockpit parts from Flight Deck Soultions or Luchtvaart but just a few hours before sending the order to FDS I accidentaly got in contact with the real artist, Jakub Gaik from Andrychow - a small city in the south highlands of Poland. He makes real masterpieces, which are far cheaper than foreign competition!!
I was not thinking too long: I took a car, went to Jakub, looked at his stuff and placed an order at once! I brought the parts back home one day before Christmas 2004. Staright after holidays I started to work. Between Christmas and the New Year I spent 12-14 hours every day to destroy what I had in my small room, repaint it, connect the parts together, connect all the electronic equipment, synchronise and run it. On the New Year's Eve it all looked like that:
2004-12-31
It took me a few hours to get fit again after New Year party ;-) but I continued my work without any additional delay. I assembled and mounted the overhead panel and also did some fine tuning of the software on all computers. Today the cockpit is "flyable" and is shown on photos below:
2005-01-07
I am already after a few paterns around various airports to test the plane: It is absolutely marvellous! But... there are still a lot of bigger and smaller things to do. Most important of them for the next months are:
- implementing a fully workable, hardware Flight Management System
- backlighting of MIP and Overhead Panel (something like on MCP+EFIS)
- placing all necessary buttons, switches and annunciator lights on MCP+Overhead, connecting them to FSBUS and synchronising with PMSystems
- adding a fully workable throttle quadrant with all necessary levers for thrust, flaps, spoliers, trim etc.
Below is a link to a story describing how I was cheated by Horizon Flight Simulation company from USA owned by Michael Lehkamp, who claim to build professional yoke. I only lost $700, a lot of time and frustration.
This is a warning to any of his potential customers.
Click here
Those, who do not want to read all the story, just want to see how their terrible product looks like might want to go directly to the following links:
Big, high resolution photos
Smaller photos, especially for modem users.
Well, it has been a long since the last update. Unfortunately I have been mostly busy at work recently, that is why ihad no time for further development of my cockpit and, frankly, even flying.
But eventually vacation time arrived and I had to find some spare minutes. It allowed me to finish fully workable flight management system. It has a full keyboard, great backlighting and fantastic 5-inch display taken from Sony Playstation.
2005-08-15
I have recorder a short MOVIE (~2.8MB) showing how I am inserting some basic data.
If you want you may also watch a sample movie showing landing in HEGN (Hurghada, Egipt) with crosswind component reaching 40 knots:
Outside view (~2.5MB)
Cockpit view (~2.9MB)
Displays view (~3.0MB)
The toy is getting its shape :-). Now priority number 1 is a throttle quadrant with pedestal. I hope it is just a matter of a few weeks.
2005-08-27
"Flying" got really much closer to reality. But it still was just a set of detached monitors standing on the desk. That was the right time to start panels construction. I was planning to buy cockpit parts from Flight Deck Soultions or Luchtvaart but just a few hours before sending the order to FDS I accidentaly got in contact with the real artist, Jakub Gaik from Andrychow - a small city in the south highlands of Poland. He makes real masterpieces, which are far cheaper than foreign competition!!
I was not thinking too long: I took a car, went to Jakub, looked at his stuff and placed an order at once! I brought the parts back home one day before Christmas 2004. Staright after holidays I started to work. Between Christmas and the New Year I spent 12-14 hours every day to destroy what I had in my small room, repaint it, connect the parts together, connect all the electronic equipment, synchronise and run it. On the New Year's Eve it all looked like that:
2004-12-31
It took me a few hours to get fit again after New Year party ;-) but I continued my work without any additional delay. I assembled and mounted the overhead panel and also did some fine tuning of the software on all computers. Today the cockpit is "flyable" and is shown on photos below:
2005-01-07
I am already after a few paterns around various airports to test the plane: It is absolutely marvellous! But... there are still a lot of bigger and smaller things to do. Most important of them for the next months are:
- implementing a fully workable, hardware Flight Management System
- backlighting of MIP and Overhead Panel (something like on MCP+EFIS)
- placing all necessary buttons, switches and annunciator lights on MCP+Overhead, connecting them to FSBUS and synchronising with PMSystems
- adding a fully workable throttle quadrant with all necessary levers for thrust, flaps, spoliers, trim etc.
Below is a link to a story describing how I was cheated by Horizon Flight Simulation company from USA owned by Michael Lehkamp, who claim to build professional yoke. I only lost $700, a lot of time and frustration.
This is a warning to any of his potential customers.
Click here
Those, who do not want to read all the story, just want to see how their terrible product looks like might want to go directly to the following links:
Big, high resolution photos
Smaller photos, especially for modem users.
Well, it has been a long since the last update. Unfortunately I have been mostly busy at work recently, that is why ihad no time for further development of my cockpit and, frankly, even flying.
But eventually vacation time arrived and I had to find some spare minutes. It allowed me to finish fully workable flight management system. It has a full keyboard, great backlighting and fantastic 5-inch display taken from Sony Playstation.
2005-08-15
I have recorder a short MOVIE (~2.8MB) showing how I am inserting some basic data.
If you want you may also watch a sample movie showing landing in HEGN (Hurghada, Egipt) with crosswind component reaching 40 knots:
Outside view (~2.5MB)
Cockpit view (~2.9MB)
Displays view (~3.0MB)
The toy is getting its shape :-). Now priority number 1 is a throttle quadrant with pedestal. I hope it is just a matter of a few weeks.
2005-08-27
I am already after a few paterns around various airports to test the plane: It is absolutely marvellous! But... there are still a lot of bigger and smaller things to do. Most important of them for the next months are:
- implementing a fully workable, hardware Flight Management System
- backlighting of MIP and Overhead Panel (something like on MCP+EFIS)
- placing all necessary buttons, switches and annunciator lights on MCP+Overhead, connecting them to FSBUS and synchronising with PMSystems
- adding a fully workable throttle quadrant with all necessary levers for thrust, flaps, spoliers, trim etc.
Below is a link to a story describing how I was cheated by Horizon Flight Simulation company from USA owned by Michael Lehkamp, who claim to build professional yoke. I only lost $700, a lot of time and frustration.
This is a warning to any of his potential customers.
Click hereThose, who do not want to read all the story, just want to see how their terrible product looks like might want to go directly to the following links:
Big, high resolution photosSmaller photos, especially for modem users.
Well, it has been a long since the last update. Unfortunately I have been mostly busy at work recently, that is why ihad no time for further development of my cockpit and, frankly, even flying.
But eventually vacation time arrived and I had to find some spare minutes. It allowed me to finish fully workable flight management system. It has a full keyboard, great backlighting and fantastic 5-inch display taken from Sony Playstation.
2005-08-15
I have recorder a short MOVIE (~2.8MB) showing how I am inserting some basic data.
If you want you may also watch a sample movie showing landing in HEGN (Hurghada, Egipt) with crosswind component reaching 40 knots:
Outside view (~2.5MB)
Cockpit view (~2.9MB)
Displays view (~3.0MB)
The toy is getting its shape :-). Now priority number 1 is a throttle quadrant with pedestal. I hope it is just a matter of a few weeks.
2005-08-27
I have recorder a short MOVIE (~2.8MB) showing how I am inserting some basic data.
If you want you may also watch a sample movie showing landing in HEGN (Hurghada, Egipt) with crosswind component reaching 40 knots:
Outside view (~2.5MB)
Cockpit view (~2.9MB)
Displays view (~3.0MB)
The toy is getting its shape :-). Now priority number 1 is a throttle quadrant with pedestal. I hope it is just a matter of a few weeks.
2005-08-27
The happiest day of my life! At 0:20 my son Marcin was born.
2005-12-31
It's been a long time since I flew a bit. My little son is dearly beloved and best int he world, but also really time consuming. Obviously since my priorities have completely changed since his birth.
At the end of the year I usually have a little bit of spare time, what allows me to upgrade the cockpit significantly. This week I did not have so much freetime as I would expect, but the cockpit grew anyway. I already have Throttle quadrant installed, central pedestal (not full due to lack of space, all radios only). All was initially connected and tested. I was also lucky to buy a nice 10" LCD monitor so I will make the lower EICAS :-). Due to forementioned lack of time fine tuning has to be postponed. Below a few pics from my Christmas/New Year activities:
2006-01-01
First photo of my little first officer in the cokpit :). He is not very much interested in it but must get used to it :).
2006-02-26
Today the simbuilding marathon has ended. Together with Tomek & Marek -> from today my gurus ;) we have been 'fighting' with the hardware for two long days & nights. FMC & lower EICAS were fine tuned. Throttle quadrant (with servodrives moving throttle & speedbrake handles) works just fantastic! Central pedestal allowing to change radio-navigational frequencies also works marvellous.
At the end - hit of the season: fully Funcional overhead panel!! I can say that it makes my work almost over. There are just some small 'make-up' to do. Now the toy is really nice :)
Below quickly made 6-minute movie showing how I start the engines with overhead panel:
High quality (640x480) (~44MB)
Medium quality (320x240) (~14MB)
2006-04-30
Today I can finally say that the job is over. Everything works perfectly as I expected. Unfortunately currently I do not have enough time to 'play' my toy but whenever I look at it a little smile appears on my face :). Well, a short while for a few traffic patterns around the airport also can be found from time to time.
2006-05-24
A photo of my flightdeck has been published today in a daily newspaper 'Dziennik'. Page called 'Hi-tec' contained a general article about PC flight simulators and hardware usually used with it. There is nothing particular about my toy in the article (just general 'blablabla) so I am not going to translate it. The photo is signed "Michal Buciak, aviation enthusiast built at home a full-size replica of Boeing 737". Below some photos of the newspaper's first page, then page 26 where you can find my photo ;).
Below a few more photos made by the newspaper's photographer:
2006-07-31
July 'Enter' (popular Polish monthly magazine dedicated to computers) wrote an article about virtual flying. There are a few sentences mentioning crazy people doing a little more than monitor and joystick ;). My cockpit is mentioned there and some photos illustrate what it means to build one.
2006-11-04
It's slowly becoming famous ;). Today's popular news program 'Teleexpress' (daily at 17:00 on 1st Polish National TV) showed a short info about my toy. I became a member of the famous 'Teleexpress Club of Positive Freaks' (every saturday they show people having a rare unknown hobby, and frankly, I don't know if the translation into English is good).
Teleexpress - higher quality (00:30~5MB)
Teleexpress - lower quality (00:30~1MB)
To be continued...
My photos on Airliners.net!
Return to the main page
(C) Butik 2001
2005-12-31
It's been a long time since I flew a bit. My little son is dearly beloved and best int he world, but also really time consuming. Obviously since my priorities have completely changed since his birth.
At the end of the year I usually have a little bit of spare time, what allows me to upgrade the cockpit significantly. This week I did not have so much freetime as I would expect, but the cockpit grew anyway. I already have Throttle quadrant installed, central pedestal (not full due to lack of space, all radios only). All was initially connected and tested. I was also lucky to buy a nice 10" LCD monitor so I will make the lower EICAS :-). Due to forementioned lack of time fine tuning has to be postponed. Below a few pics from my Christmas/New Year activities:
2006-01-01
First photo of my little first officer in the cokpit :). He is not very much interested in it but must get used to it :).
2006-02-26
Today the simbuilding marathon has ended. Together with Tomek & Marek -> from today my gurus ;) we have been 'fighting' with the hardware for two long days & nights. FMC & lower EICAS were fine tuned. Throttle quadrant (with servodrives moving throttle & speedbrake handles) works just fantastic! Central pedestal allowing to change radio-navigational frequencies also works marvellous.
At the end - hit of the season: fully Funcional overhead panel!! I can say that it makes my work almost over. There are just some small 'make-up' to do. Now the toy is really nice :)
Below quickly made 6-minute movie showing how I start the engines with overhead panel:
High quality (640x480) (~44MB)
Medium quality (320x240) (~14MB)
2006-04-30
Today I can finally say that the job is over. Everything works perfectly as I expected. Unfortunately currently I do not have enough time to 'play' my toy but whenever I look at it a little smile appears on my face :). Well, a short while for a few traffic patterns around the airport also can be found from time to time.
2006-05-24
A photo of my flightdeck has been published today in a daily newspaper 'Dziennik'. Page called 'Hi-tec' contained a general article about PC flight simulators and hardware usually used with it. There is nothing particular about my toy in the article (just general 'blablabla) so I am not going to translate it. The photo is signed "Michal Buciak, aviation enthusiast built at home a full-size replica of Boeing 737". Below some photos of the newspaper's first page, then page 26 where you can find my photo ;).
Below a few more photos made by the newspaper's photographer:
2006-07-31
July 'Enter' (popular Polish monthly magazine dedicated to computers) wrote an article about virtual flying. There are a few sentences mentioning crazy people doing a little more than monitor and joystick ;). My cockpit is mentioned there and some photos illustrate what it means to build one.
2006-11-04
It's slowly becoming famous ;). Today's popular news program 'Teleexpress' (daily at 17:00 on 1st Polish National TV) showed a short info about my toy. I became a member of the famous 'Teleexpress Club of Positive Freaks' (every saturday they show people having a rare unknown hobby, and frankly, I don't know if the translation into English is good).
Teleexpress - higher quality (00:30~5MB)
Teleexpress - lower quality (00:30~1MB)
To be continued...
My photos on Airliners.net!
Return to the main page
(C) Butik 2001
2006-01-01
First photo of my little first officer in the cokpit :). He is not very much interested in it but must get used to it :).
2006-02-26
Today the simbuilding marathon has ended. Together with Tomek & Marek -> from today my gurus ;) we have been 'fighting' with the hardware for two long days & nights. FMC & lower EICAS were fine tuned. Throttle quadrant (with servodrives moving throttle & speedbrake handles) works just fantastic! Central pedestal allowing to change radio-navigational frequencies also works marvellous.
At the end - hit of the season: fully Funcional overhead panel!! I can say that it makes my work almost over. There are just some small 'make-up' to do. Now the toy is really nice :)
Below quickly made 6-minute movie showing how I start the engines with overhead panel:
High quality (640x480) (~44MB)
Medium quality (320x240) (~14MB)
2006-04-30
Today I can finally say that the job is over. Everything works perfectly as I expected. Unfortunately currently I do not have enough time to 'play' my toy but whenever I look at it a little smile appears on my face :). Well, a short while for a few traffic patterns around the airport also can be found from time to time.
2006-05-24
A photo of my flightdeck has been published today in a daily newspaper 'Dziennik'. Page called 'Hi-tec' contained a general article about PC flight simulators and hardware usually used with it. There is nothing particular about my toy in the article (just general 'blablabla) so I am not going to translate it. The photo is signed "Michal Buciak, aviation enthusiast built at home a full-size replica of Boeing 737". Below some photos of the newspaper's first page, then page 26 where you can find my photo ;).
Below a few more photos made by the newspaper's photographer:
2006-07-31
July 'Enter' (popular Polish monthly magazine dedicated to computers) wrote an article about virtual flying. There are a few sentences mentioning crazy people doing a little more than monitor and joystick ;). My cockpit is mentioned there and some photos illustrate what it means to build one.
2006-11-04
It's slowly becoming famous ;). Today's popular news program 'Teleexpress' (daily at 17:00 on 1st Polish National TV) showed a short info about my toy. I became a member of the famous 'Teleexpress Club of Positive Freaks' (every saturday they show people having a rare unknown hobby, and frankly, I don't know if the translation into English is good).
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2006-02-26
Today the simbuilding marathon has ended. Together with Tomek & Marek -> from today my gurus ;) we have been 'fighting' with the hardware for two long days & nights. FMC & lower EICAS were fine tuned. Throttle quadrant (with servodrives moving throttle & speedbrake handles) works just fantastic! Central pedestal allowing to change radio-navigational frequencies also works marvellous.
At the end - hit of the season: fully Funcional overhead panel!! I can say that it makes my work almost over. There are just some small 'make-up' to do. Now the toy is really nice :)
Below quickly made 6-minute movie showing how I start the engines with overhead panel:
High quality (640x480) (~44MB)
Medium quality (320x240) (~14MB)
2006-04-30
Today I can finally say that the job is over. Everything works perfectly as I expected. Unfortunately currently I do not have enough time to 'play' my toy but whenever I look at it a little smile appears on my face :). Well, a short while for a few traffic patterns around the airport also can be found from time to time.
2006-05-24
A photo of my flightdeck has been published today in a daily newspaper 'Dziennik'. Page called 'Hi-tec' contained a general article about PC flight simulators and hardware usually used with it. There is nothing particular about my toy in the article (just general 'blablabla) so I am not going to translate it. The photo is signed "Michal Buciak, aviation enthusiast built at home a full-size replica of Boeing 737". Below some photos of the newspaper's first page, then page 26 where you can find my photo ;).
Below a few more photos made by the newspaper's photographer:
2006-07-31
July 'Enter' (popular Polish monthly magazine dedicated to computers) wrote an article about virtual flying. There are a few sentences mentioning crazy people doing a little more than monitor and joystick ;). My cockpit is mentioned there and some photos illustrate what it means to build one.
2006-11-04
It's slowly becoming famous ;). Today's popular news program 'Teleexpress' (daily at 17:00 on 1st Polish National TV) showed a short info about my toy. I became a member of the famous 'Teleexpress Club of Positive Freaks' (every saturday they show people having a rare unknown hobby, and frankly, I don't know if the translation into English is good).
Teleexpress - higher quality (00:30~5MB)
Teleexpress - lower quality (00:30~1MB)
To be continued...
My photos on Airliners.net!
Return to the main page
(C) Butik 2001
Below quickly made 6-minute movie showing how I start the engines with overhead panel:
High quality (640x480) (~44MB)
Medium quality (320x240) (~14MB)
2006-04-30
Today I can finally say that the job is over. Everything works perfectly as I expected. Unfortunately currently I do not have enough time to 'play' my toy but whenever I look at it a little smile appears on my face :). Well, a short while for a few traffic patterns around the airport also can be found from time to time.
2006-05-24
A photo of my flightdeck has been published today in a daily newspaper 'Dziennik'. Page called 'Hi-tec' contained a general article about PC flight simulators and hardware usually used with it. There is nothing particular about my toy in the article (just general 'blablabla) so I am not going to translate it. The photo is signed "Michal Buciak, aviation enthusiast built at home a full-size replica of Boeing 737". Below some photos of the newspaper's first page, then page 26 where you can find my photo ;).
Below a few more photos made by the newspaper's photographer:
2006-07-31
July 'Enter' (popular Polish monthly magazine dedicated to computers) wrote an article about virtual flying. There are a few sentences mentioning crazy people doing a little more than monitor and joystick ;). My cockpit is mentioned there and some photos illustrate what it means to build one.
2006-11-04
It's slowly becoming famous ;). Today's popular news program 'Teleexpress' (daily at 17:00 on 1st Polish National TV) showed a short info about my toy. I became a member of the famous 'Teleexpress Club of Positive Freaks' (every saturday they show people having a rare unknown hobby, and frankly, I don't know if the translation into English is good).
Teleexpress - higher quality (00:30~5MB)
Teleexpress - lower quality (00:30~1MB)
To be continued...
My photos on Airliners.net!
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(C) Butik 2001
2006-05-24
A photo of my flightdeck has been published today in a daily newspaper 'Dziennik'. Page called 'Hi-tec' contained a general article about PC flight simulators and hardware usually used with it. There is nothing particular about my toy in the article (just general 'blablabla) so I am not going to translate it. The photo is signed "Michal Buciak, aviation enthusiast built at home a full-size replica of Boeing 737". Below some photos of the newspaper's first page, then page 26 where you can find my photo ;).
Below a few more photos made by the newspaper's photographer:
2006-07-31
July 'Enter' (popular Polish monthly magazine dedicated to computers) wrote an article about virtual flying. There are a few sentences mentioning crazy people doing a little more than monitor and joystick ;). My cockpit is mentioned there and some photos illustrate what it means to build one.
2006-11-04
It's slowly becoming famous ;). Today's popular news program 'Teleexpress' (daily at 17:00 on 1st Polish National TV) showed a short info about my toy. I became a member of the famous 'Teleexpress Club of Positive Freaks' (every saturday they show people having a rare unknown hobby, and frankly, I don't know if the translation into English is good).
Teleexpress - higher quality (00:30~5MB)
Teleexpress - lower quality (00:30~1MB)
To be continued...
My photos on Airliners.net!
Return to the main page
(C) Butik 2001
Below a few more photos made by the newspaper's photographer:
2006-07-31
July 'Enter' (popular Polish monthly magazine dedicated to computers) wrote an article about virtual flying. There are a few sentences mentioning crazy people doing a little more than monitor and joystick ;). My cockpit is mentioned there and some photos illustrate what it means to build one.
2006-11-04
It's slowly becoming famous ;). Today's popular news program 'Teleexpress' (daily at 17:00 on 1st Polish National TV) showed a short info about my toy. I became a member of the famous 'Teleexpress Club of Positive Freaks' (every saturday they show people having a rare unknown hobby, and frankly, I don't know if the translation into English is good).
Teleexpress - higher quality (00:30~5MB)
Teleexpress - lower quality (00:30~1MB)
To be continued...
My photos on Airliners.net!
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(C) Butik 2001
2006-07-31
July 'Enter' (popular Polish monthly magazine dedicated to computers) wrote an article about virtual flying. There are a few sentences mentioning crazy people doing a little more than monitor and joystick ;). My cockpit is mentioned there and some photos illustrate what it means to build one.
2006-11-04
It's slowly becoming famous ;). Today's popular news program 'Teleexpress' (daily at 17:00 on 1st Polish National TV) showed a short info about my toy. I became a member of the famous 'Teleexpress Club of Positive Freaks' (every saturday they show people having a rare unknown hobby, and frankly, I don't know if the translation into English is good).
Teleexpress - higher quality (00:30~5MB)
Teleexpress - lower quality (00:30~1MB)
To be continued...
My photos on Airliners.net!
Return to the main page
(C) Butik 2001
2006-11-04
It's slowly becoming famous ;). Today's popular news program 'Teleexpress' (daily at 17:00 on 1st Polish National TV) showed a short info about my toy. I became a member of the famous 'Teleexpress Club of Positive Freaks' (every saturday they show people having a rare unknown hobby, and frankly, I don't know if the translation into English is good).
Teleexpress - higher quality (00:30~5MB)
Teleexpress - lower quality (00:30~1MB)
To be continued...
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(C) Butik 2001
Teleexpress - lower quality (00:30~1MB)
To be continued...
My photos on Airliners.net!
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(C) Butik 2001
My photos on Airliners.net!
Return to the main page
(C) Butik 2001