September 2007! In the meantime I finished the main construction of the sim-base. The seats were painted as well, and the mechanism for rudder and control columns is very close to be finalized and finished. I shot some pictures of the work so far. Please see them below. Have fun with the pictures!

Simply click on the pictures, to open an 850 x 567 pixel sized view of the corresponding picture!

It took me two days of hard work to paint my seats. Taking apart major parts, cover parts and areas not to be painted accidentally etc. But the result is worth the work.

The rails are manufactured according to my plans, fitting exact to the seats. They are sliding very gently in both directions, and can be locked in place as in the real plane.

Here you see my control columns with crossover linkage. The high lightened and zoomed area is for the bearings to support the column for moving forward and backward smooth and easily! Below there are some pictures with the bearings and aluminium blocks to fix all the parts in place.

Thanks to the team of Wienwork, who are producing my aluminium blocks!

If you are looking for such bearings: Product number KP49B FS464, and here is the company where I purchased them:

PUMA MB, a.s.
U Masokombinatu 699
293 06 Kosmonosy
Czech Republic
T: +420 326736750
F: +420 326736751