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The 777 Main Instrument Panel, or MIP, was custom built by Gwyn at Aerosim Solutions.  Cut from 6mm grey plastic sheet, the bezels are designed in true Boeing style with hingeable lower sections for easy access to monitor controls hidden behind. The base structure was built using dimensions from the very helpful Austrians at Project 777, donwload their complete cockpit dimension chart if you’re building a T7. Gwyn also built a custom gear lever to fit in the very narrow confined space between the monitors.  Go to the Gear page for more details.

The Sim-Avionics package also includes full working Boeing clocks but they need to be displayed on a monitor.  You can get small 5″ TFT monitors but these can be very expensive so I went trawling the net and found GPS TFT screens on ebay for much less.  These are slightly smaller but still do the job nicely for my purposes.  These monitors have composite video input so require a VGA to Composite converter to drive them via an available video card on the PC.  Below are some test images to verify it all works:

As for mounting these in the MIP, I got Gwyn to make a suitably sized bezel to surround the screen.  I will remove the screen itself from the GPS housing and mount into these custom bezels.  I can also attach pushbutton switches to access Stop/Start and UTC/Local Time selections that Sim-A models via its software.