Home-Brew Beechcraft B1900D Simulator

This is a private project and not relateted to any activities of HZDR.

As I am an employee of HZDR I am granted publishing small amount of information, which might be useful for other people and do not interfer with HZDR interests.
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As the Flightgear provides a nicely modelled Beechcraft B1900D, it crossed my mind to follow Sean Galbraight, Mark Verschaeren, Dave and others and build my own fligh-deck.

The beginning

Most important task: collection information: Some general information on homebrew devices can be found at http://www.mikesflightdeck.com/simpit_links.htm.

The target

Image source: http://www.airliners.net/

The mock-up 2011-02-17

The final panel 2011-03-08



State 2011-11-04


State 2012-03-07


State October 2013




State April 2014


New: MCDU nearly finished (yes, I know, it's not originally there ...)
The frame uses the one from opencockpits.com, controller is an Atmel ATMega8 which establishes a three wire serial link to my RaspberryPi (connected to the GPIO)


Continuing in 2019 ...

Reworking all instruments with the help of a 3d printer.

private stuff, not related to any activities of HZDR!
Nils Schmeisser, 2013