Team JeeHell A320
Käpt’n Romeo had been contemplating the idea of joining WorldFlight for several years now. He is an avid flight simmer, who started with FS2 on Apple II, and has more than 3,000 hours on the VATSIM online network. In 2012, he started to get a taste of the WorldFlight week-long event by joining a few of the flights along the route circumnavigating the world. It has always been his intention to build a team to participate in the full WorldFlight event… After retiring last year, he decided that it was time to make this a reality!
In March 2015, Käpt’n Romeo began building a full-size, fixed-base, Airbus A320 home cockpit, which became “airworthy” for online flights in November 2015, and is nearly completed since 2019. One challenge however is that the cockpit is not really suitable to be opened to the public. During WorldFlight 2021, Käpt’n Romeo participated in 13 flights, including an uninterrupted segment of 14 hours. As he realized this was too much to fly alone, he came up with the idea of distributing the flights among other home cockpits able to fly an identical aircraft online.
As his A320 cockpit runs the “JeeHell” FMGS freeware, Käpt’n Romeo reached out to the passionate JeeHell community in early 2022. Within a few weeks three adventurous cockpit builders, located on two different continents, had decided to join him. Team WorldFlight JeeHell A320 was born!
A Look at our Full-Size A320 Cockpits
Käpt’n Romeo’s cockpit is built as a closed shell from a Vier Im Pott MIP with Skalarki panels, pedestal, and overhead. Other elements include two jumpseats, self-made out of wood, MDF, PVC, Xyltech panels, and acrylic windows. Seats are old ISRI 5000 used by the German army. Three projectors provide a 220 degrees view on a curved screen with 4m diameter.
Käpt’n Romeo
Germany
Captain Mike Delta’s cockpit is a self-built wood structure with panels from Skalarki and a 160 degrees screen, also made of wood and self constructed. The setup is FO focused and uses four computers, three monitors, one iPad, and two short-throw projectors. After five years of experimenting, building, re-building, and optimizing, the simulator is now completed and running smoothly.
Captain Mike Delta
Germany
Captain Pero’s cockpit is based on Skalarki hardware, a self-built wooden shell, and some nice features like a working icing indicator. The forward view is realized with a short-throw projector. The A320 cockpit is fully functional as a fixed base dual seater.
Captain Pero
Germany
Captain Tango’s cockpit uses Vier Im Pott elements, Skalarki electronics, and OpenCockpits seats. It is an “open frame” design with three large 4K TVs offering a 180 degrees external view. The captain and first officer instruments run on two dedicated computers.
Captain Tango
USA
Our WorldFlight Adventures
WorldFlight 2023
WorldFlight 2022
Click on the image of the route for more details.