Modularity is important to me, so everything is simply replaceable and upgradable. Also, when moving the whole home cockpit, this will be a lot easier. The MIP has a total width of 1561mm and a total height of 425mm. The extra space under the bezels is needed to fit the LG ultrawide monitors. Otherwise, the screens are blocking the ADFS panels. The width of those monitors are perfect to cover the bezels.
The MIP consists of 2 parts: the captian and the first officer. Both have their own wooden frame and consists of multiple layers.
Multiple layers. On the wooden frame, there is a relative “open” first 6mm MDF layer. On top of that, 3mm white translucent acrylic to fit all parts such as annunciators. On top of the 3mm acrylic, there is another 3mm white translucent acrylic layer which is the gear lever module. This is a separate Fusion 360 3D model that can be modeled separately.
Monitors
I’ve bought 2 LG 29WP500 monitors. Those screens are cheap (200 euros each) for what you get. We use them for the MIP, so we don’t need a hardcore gaming monitor. The height of the screen (without foot) is 314mm and the width is 690mm. The width is exactly the width of 2 MAX bezels next to each other, so that fits really perfect.
Bezels
I’ve designed the bezels already in Fusion 360 and can be downloaded for free on Grabcad. I’ve made them of 12mm MDF. One bezel have a dimension of 343x269mm. So two of them will have a total width of 686mm and hay, the LG 29WP500 monitor is 690mm… with a space of 4mm between the bezels, again, it will fit perfectly! 🙂
Panels
On the MIP, there are 3 acrylic panels to create: two for the ADFS and one for the landing gear. So I’ve designed them in Fusion 360 and used the CNC to make the cut outs.
Now everything has been CNC-ed, I’ve spray painted the parts in the RAL7011 color.
Each panel has several annunciator boxes