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    Posted: 08 Jun 2010 at 10:22am
Hello everyone,
 
Over the past few weeks I have been building my own CDU as part of my Pedestal Project. I have finally completed construction of the CDU. It is fully compatible with the LDS767 and FSX. The electronic interfacing is done through the USBKeys Card (of Opencockpits) and "Lekseecon", a freeware program developed by Nico Kaan.
 
All the construction, wiring and installation is completely home-made.
 
I have made a video demonstrating some of the features of both my CDU and other aspects of the Pedestal in my home-cockpit, such as the Radios and Transponder. Please watch the following video, it shows me running through the pre-flight procedures at YBBN Brisbane, I added some ATC Chatter to make it more realistic.
 
Thanks and enjoy.
 

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Looks an amazing set up and to wire and install that to all function correctly must have been quite a challenge!  Just one thing, when you were inputing the route data etc. into the FMC I never saw the waypoints and information appear in the scratch pad.  Is this just the view the video was taken from or can you not see what you are entering? 
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Hiya Tom,
 
Well noticed!
 
You are right, it was just the shot of the video that didn't include the scratch pad. I can always see what I'm entering into the CDU.
 
Thanks for the kind words.Big%20smile

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