Joe Lavery is one of the earliest friends who sent me home cockpit photos nearly eight years ago. When he moved to a new home, he decided to install a proper shell that would make it more immersive while reassembling everything again. Following are some images showing the current state of his cockpit being rebuilt and parts that he newly made.
Builder: Joe Lavery
Location: Cardiff, Wales
ICAO: EGFF, Cardiff Airport
I originally had great expectation on Orbx’s True Earth Washington for P3D because the company’s True Earth Washington for X-Plane looks great. But when I got the P3D version yesterday, I have to say that I am disappointed since it is inferior to its X-Plane brother, especially in the two aspects below.
In its description, it says it offers 66,574 square miles of hand-corrected, crisp aerial imagery. However, crisp or not depends on how high you fly.
click to see larger imageThe “Cockpits_Collective” section has been removed. Previous photos in the section were transferred to their individual pages in the last few weeks with updates from some of the builders.
5/22 Update: Cockpit photos from Fernando Angel, Richard Leaton, Jean marie Humez and Doug Fields have been moved to their own pages today. Although their published dates remain unchanged, notifications of their additions to the blog are sent since they are actually new posts in a sense. You could directly search their names for their cockpit pages.
5/23 Update: Cockpits photos from Peter Rowney, Laurent Grossman, Randall Bliven and Dave Beckett have been moved to their own pages today.
5/24 Update: Cockpits photos from Andrew Crowhurst, Cap Steve, Brian McMullan, Sam Jay and Brian Buckley have been moved to their own pages today.
5/25 Update: Last batch of Cockpit photos from Stephan Schlitzer, Didier Misery, Jean Grabriel and Karsten Jaeger have been moved to their own pages .
David Lidgley submitted his cockpit photos six years ago. He continues to fly on his Slingsby T67A but has moved on to X-Plane 11 with some changes to the panel mainly with electronics.
Builder: David Lidgley
Location: Stockton-on-Tees, UK
ICAO: EGNV, Durham Tees Valley Airport
Regarding the background of my gauges, followings are the results from the “Gauge Background You Like More” survey posted on April 26.
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After 6 years and 2 previous builds, Roy Dunnavant in Arizona USA has taken a rather unusual approach in his current sim cockpit, in which 5 x 24-inch monitors are used in portrait mode for display.
Builder: Roy Dunnavant
Location: Marana, Arizona, USA
ICAO: KAVQ, Marana Regional Airport
Just came across this Pilot’s Guide to Home Flight Simulators on an email from 
Redbird Flight Simulations about their upcoming webinar Flight Simulation at Home.
Surely many of us have certain knowledge about flight simulation already, the book from the school is still a good reference to help pilots, student pilots and flightsimmers to keep their training focused with a flight simulator. Click here or the image to download yours.
While the world is moving toward USB-C, many flightsim hardwares still only work properly with USB 2.0 standard. Logitech’s Flight Instrument Panel (FIP) is 
one of them. Steve Crouch sent me a comment for My Cockpit Rebuilding #14, saying that he wasn’t aware of that and so he had trouble with them before.
Yes, when choosing USB hubs or ports for FIP connections, the older 2.0 standard is still the preferred choice, disregarding the claim of downward compatibility in 3.0 standard. Continue reading
There are 12 FIPs in my system, and the two USB hubs they plugged in are placed closely. As the cables coming with the FIPs are quite long, heavy and hard to bend, they are troubles everytime I want to tidy them up properly.
They have been headaches to me for a long time until I finally figured out how to deal with these cables recently. Continue reading
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