Attitude Indicator Testing

I recently came across an old Cessna 172 (?) instrument panel

which was used as a training simulator.

It has a complex interfacing but was not intended for the use with FSX. However its instruments are already prepped with servos and/or stepper motors. Thus making it great for adapting it for our purposes.

The Mustang has, although equipped with the Garmin G1000 flightdeck, three standby instruments: Speed indicator; Attitude indicator and the vertical speed indicator.

In this case I disassembled the attitude indicator unit and found that we don’t need that fancy electrical stuff hidden inside. I disconnected all the unneeded cables and boards and remained with just the mechanics and two servo motors attached to it. I connected the servo cables to our servo driving card and programmed a short script in SIOC (our interfacing language).

A short video in which I am testing the response of the indicator:

It has begun…

Last week we startet assembling the base structure. It is made from our material of choice: MDF

First things first: Adding wheels to the base plate for easy relocation.

Assembling the center console.

Adding stuff…

Base structure almost finished. We will add the front plates later on because those need to be removable.