[MVP] Mugga

I will get the P-Charts.

Not sure what's happened as of the latest update.... the F86F Sabre sounds have reverted to the DCS World default sounds. @Flappie @BIGNEWY Can this be looked into? Also, the performance of the aircraft seems to have changed. Acceleration seems to be stronger and you can now cruise around at like 73% power doing 300kts!

Managed to make up a cockpit left hand sidewall upper panel. This panel houses the Gun Selection controls. More work today fabricating the replacement inspection panels for the cockpit fuselage externals.

@Spitty they're standard issue equipment for black-handers!

@BIGNEWY broken image links again? This can't be right?

The left and right hand side cockpit consoles have received their CAC interior colour coats today. Many thanks to the team at BCS Paints for the supply of the custom colour spray-cans - these are brilliant! The panels will receive another coat of colour, before being painted with two coats of hard-wearing 2-pack matte-clear. As we begin to draw closer to having all of the cockpit panels and consoles restored and ready for re-installation, our focus will begin to shift across to cleaning up the cockpit itself. The following photos give you an idea of what lay in front of us.

The team has rebuilt the right hand cockpit avionics console, to accommodate the GBR Test Plug, ADF, UHF and IFF control unit in the same configuration as the DCS World F86F Sabre. The team started the clean-up of the ADF Control Unit today, including refurbishing the mounting rails, control knobs, and overhead lighting post mounts.

Many thanks to [MVP] Nathan who has supplied replacement inspection panel screws. These will help compliment the new paintwork. Work is continuing to remove all plumbing, electrical harnesses and accessories from the left and right hand side gun-bays. The bays will be cleaned out, painted, and re-purposed to house the simulator computers and their associated hardware. Many thanks to Nathan who has been hard at work. To date, we have removed some +400kgs of parts from the cockpit fuselage section, with possibly a further 2-300kgs to remove.

We have commenced cleaning up one of our Sabre ADF control panels, which will be carefully converted to communicate with the simulator digital control system. The unit will be carefully disassembled and rebuilt to look brand new! Photos below show the unit before a basic clean. What looks like trash, can often be brought back to life.

The team are about to kick off the restoration of the right hand side cockpit avionics consoles that we have in our stores. The consoles will require some light panel beating to remove dents, and will be stripped of paint and given fresh primer and finish coats. In addition, we will need to fabricate a missing sidewall panel and source some avionics install tracks and supporting brackets.

Left hand side cockpit step box assembly riveted together tonight. The fascia plates will be sent off for water cutting, then everything will be primed and assembled. Good to have another part nearing completion!

Managed to the get left hand side cockpit step parts fabricated this evening, hopefully we can get the parts all edge trimmed and reassembled this week. Following which both the left and right hand side steps can be reinstalled.

Many thanks to Nathan who is fabricating the cockpit rolling stand for Sabre 965. The stand will accommodate the 1.5tonne cockpit structure, and will also provide mountings for the ingress/egress ladders and instructor platform. Our challenge is to keep the stair/platform height below 1.5m overall.

Circuit breaker panel all cleaned down and given a first-pass panel beating! This original breaker panel has seen better days and was badly bent/dog-eared, along with having a host of dents across its face. Some light planishing and it already looks much better. Unfortunately, the panel mounting holes have all been badly elongated due to excessive wear and tear. Not much can be done here outside of creating a fresh doubler reinforcement and affixing. Interestingly, the electrical harness exit on the lower left hand side of the panel houses a domed flute, which has been welded to the panel face, which was surprising. All 24 of the circuit breakers will be replaced with simulated breakers, which will be operational to the simulator. This means the breaker labels will be re-done with those in the sim, rather than 100% replicating those from the original cockpit.