Disassembly
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Before we start assembling the chassis I decided to disassemble it because I felt like it, or rather, because the wiring was extremely confusing and I needed a better overview. (cue in the title) I disassembled the main flight control deck (the thing with the throttle) and removed all of the cotrol surfaces. I also removed the joysticks, together with these rotating handles, from their housing. I unfortunately don't have any pictures of the joystick disassembly; my memory card corrupted those images specifically somehow. I won't be documenting their wiring this time anyway because they're wired together with the pedals, and I haven't looked at those yet. |
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The Disassembled Control Surfaces And Their Respective Connectors
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Note: It may not seem obvious from the pictures, but the FLAPS, SPEED BRAKE and PARK BRK controlls do not have a separate connector. The throttle connector goes into a sort of Y shaped path away from all of the other wires and into one big connector instead of multiple smaller ones that go directly to the potentiometers and switches inside these control panels.
The FDS-FC1 Joystick Controller Board
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Before all of the wires from the control surfaces reach the FDS-FC1 micro-controller, they go through this last connector. If you follow all of my diagrams carefully, you'll notice that the outer two and inner two buttons on the throttle are shorted together via a short purple wire before they reach the controller. |
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The Chairs (Again)
I don't have much to say other than that the stitching and construction of the bottom cushion is surprisingly rubbish. We fortunately have sewing space below us if we decide to fix it.
The labels date the cushions to 2008. Definitely newer than the chairs. I still have no clue whether the chairs flew on a Boeing or Airbus, or if they were modified at some point or not. The later dates could be evidence of a later modification, but they might just as well come from the airplane they were part of having been refurbished that year. (Or something equivalent to that. No clue about airplane maintenance.)
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