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Fire Fighting and Prevention Project - Pakistan Faysalabad

Okan Saçlı

Oct 20, 2020

Fire Fighting and Prevention Project - Pakistan Faysalabad

This fire fighting project is located in Faysalabad - Pakistan. This plant is the first investment of Hayat Group in Pakistan. Acting as the project manager we completed the installation and commisioing of the water based sprinkler systems (according to NFPA13), foam based extinguishing systems, CO2 based extinguishing systems with local applications, electronic fire detection and activation systems, underground hydrant lines and hose reel cabinet systems on a turnkey EPC bas

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Airbus A320 Home Cockpit Shell design and implementation -Part I

Okan Saçlı

Oct 20, 2020

Airbus A320 Home Cockpit Shell design and implementation -Part I

My cockpit cabin design is based on a wooden / timber based construction with final finishing cladddings implemented only from the inside (ie. when viewed from outside it the structure is fully visible). I had no concerns on the external view of the simulator, so dream of a shell visible from outside so that's why I prefered to go this way, you are free to improvise accordingly. (Please note the some of the stuff seen in some of the photos are way back from the past and have

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Airbus A320 Throttles for Home Cockpit - Rework

Okan Saçlı

Jun 29, 2020

Airbus A320 Throttles for Home Cockpit - Rework

I have designed and manufactured my throttles back in 2004 as seen at this link. The initial design was plastic levers without reverse locking mechanism and aluminium body and non moving plastic based trim wheels. Recently I have decided to upgrade the throttle set, so that I have more realistic looking levers and try to implement the reverse thrust locking levers as well. The design is an existing one (with all the necessary STL files included) which was officialy purchased

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Natural Gas Pressure Reduction Station (PRS) project completed

Okan Saçlı

Feb 20, 2020

Natural Gas Pressure Reduction Station (PRS) project completed

The PRS (pressure reduction station) for the Canadian gas grid is completed successfully in Gebze workshop in Turkey. As reported previously, the design maximum inlet pressure is 99.3 bars and the station outlet pressure is set at 5.5 bars range. The special design containerized, flexible PRS solution was done by Palmet group and the design was approved by Petra engineering of Canada (design according to CSA) The container was designed in such a way to work extreme low temper

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Natural Gas Pressure Reduction Station (PRS) for the Canadian gas grid

Okan Saçlı

Jan 21, 2020

Natural Gas Pressure Reduction Station (PRS) for the Canadian gas grid

We are currently manufacting a PRS (Natural gas pressure reduction station) which will have a maximum inlet pressure of 99.3 bars and an outlet pressure of 5.5 bars to be used in the Canadian gas grid. It will be a containerized flexible design which will be shipped from Turkey to Canada in a built package configuration. The design of the PRS (both the mechanical skid and the container) was done inhouse by Palmet Group and was approved and stamped by Petra Engineering of Cana

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Okan Saçlı

Oct 17, 2019

Home Cockpit Flying

Short update from the latest developments in my #airbus #a320 #homecockpit. Things are improving. There are still lots to improve with the software side of things (JeeHell FMGS). I had issues with my P3D frame rates which was also effecting the logic software, so made some improvements in terms of settings. Using ORBX scenery and ORBX LOWI (which is a heavy load airport in terms of graphics) i am able now to get around 40 FPS steady so it is good now. I do have plans for bett

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Airbus A320 Korry Type Buttons - Before 3D printing

Okan Saçlı

Sep 3, 2019

Airbus A320 Korry Type Buttons - Before 3D printing

Before having a 3D printer, I used to make my "korry like" buttons using microswitches, Kingbright DE/2ID type led bars and some small plexi plates working as support structures as you can see in this blog entry and photos. Note that these buttons are dated back to 2004-2005 , so lots have changed since then. You may see how I do my korry buttons and find a comprehensive tutorial via this link All buttons are hooked on the opencockpits I/O boards and coded via SIOC to speak w

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Okan Saçlı

Sep 2, 2019

Airbus A320 Throttles for my cockpit

I designed and manufactured my throttle levers back in 2004. Below are some photos from the design phase, manufacturing phase and installation in place. Firstly, I have designed in 2D environment, looking at various photos available in the internet as I never had the change to go in the real cockpit to measure things out. After I was satisfied with the 2D design , I did a 3D design to get a feeling of how the complete product would look like in reality. All went good, the cas

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Airbus A320 Emergency Gravity Gear Extension Handle - 3D printed

Okan Saçlı

Aug 31, 2019

Airbus A320 Emergency Gravity Gear Extension Handle - 3D printed

Thanks to Thingiverse and flykarli, I found the stl file to print an emergency gravity gear extension handle for the simulator. Although it is possible to integrate a mechanism with a rotary encoder to simulate manual gear extension in case of gear failure inhibited, however I think current status of FSUIPC does not allow a manual extension, so for now it is installed on the pedestal as a dummy (visual only). If I can work out a logic with FSUIPC offsets I will definetly take

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Airbus A320 Home Simulator - The early days of the Project

Okan Saçlı

Aug 31, 2019

Airbus A320 Home Simulator - The early days of the Project

Here are some photos from 2003, the very beginning of the project. I have decided to build my simulator back in 2003 in Switzerland. I was working as a project manager for the 3G rollout of ORANGE communications back then. In the photos you can see the very early stages, the first steps in building my Airbus A320 project. There are lots and lots of hours invested in the development of the simulator, most of the steps by trial and error. As of today it is fully flyable needs s

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Data Center Air-to-Air Cooling (20 x 150 kW) Project Completed

Okan Saçlı

Aug 8, 2019

Data Center Air-to-Air Cooling (20 x 150 kW) Project Completed

The project for the installation, commisioning and heat load testing for 20 nos. of 150 kW air-to-air cooling system (total of 3 MW cooling) has been successfully completed. The project is located in Ankara, Turkey in Kredi Kayıt Bürosu Tier4 datacenter. Palmet Engineering was the main contractor on an EPC basis of the complete phase-I of this huge datacenter complex. In phase one we have already installed 20 nos. of 150 kW cooling system for white space 1 and whitespace 2. T

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Okan Saçlı

Jul 12, 2019

Airbus A320 Home Simulator Video (July 2019)

Finally a complete video of my full Airbus A320 home cockpit setup. Video is from July 2019. Almost all components are fully functional now running JeeHell software. This was a first attempt to use a video editor, so things may be a bit shaky :) New steps are optimizing stuff in the sim and hopefully better (HD) visuals. #airbus #a320 #airbusa320 #airbussimulator #airbuscockpit #simulator #cockpit #engineering #engineerslife #diy #turkey #turkish #engineering #aviation #cloud

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Airbus A320 Overhead Final Panel in progress

Okan Saçlı

Mar 14, 2019

Airbus A320 Overhead Final Panel in progress

The final piece of the overhead (bottom Captain side) is under construction. I did not realize all the sections fully here. The emergency electric power and GPWS section will be functional for now. If there is support in future from JeeHell for other parts, I will implement/interface those later on. Some progress photos can be seen as follows. I will interface this section with mobiflight and audrino mega 2560. I can not wait to install this back on the OHD section for a comp

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Crane for the Construction of a TV Broadcasting Tower - Project from 1998

Okan Saçlı

Feb 4, 2019

Crane for the Construction of a TV Broadcasting Tower - Project from 1998

This project is from 1998, where I designed, manufactured and installed a special purpose crane for the manufacturing of the inverse conical concrete section / platform and the steel structure above the conical platform for aluminium facade cladding anf glass structure (upper level of platform is +144.729m) at Ender TV Broadcasting tower located in Beylikduzu - İstanbul. The height of the concrete part of the tower is +163.300 m above +0.00. The foundation is located at -9.50

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First Construction Site Project - Cimsa Mersin Cement Factory

Okan Saçlı

Feb 4, 2019

First Construction Site Project - Cimsa Mersin Cement Factory

As a junior engineer freshly graduated from university, my first construction project abroad (away from Istanbul) was in Mersin Turkey, Cimsa Cement Plant. We built 3 nos. of concrete silos for OPC (Ordinary Portland Cement), I was responsible for the design, manufacturing and installation of all the steel works The steel works were ; inside the silo on the bottom a conical bunker structure with precast concrete blocks, at the upper level of the silo for the installation plat

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Okan Saçlı

Feb 4, 2019

First Engineering Project from 1994

This was my first ever engineering project which was the design, manufacturing and construction of a stainless steel chimney for a battery plant in Kurtköy Istanbul. It was an ~80cm inner diameter stainless steel chimney with rock wool thermal insulation and aluminium cladding on the outside. The support steel structure was also designed by me. I was working at Endem Construction back then as a junior mechanical engineer, fresh out of the university. Even back then I knew tha

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Natural Gas Fired CCGT Power Plant Project ALES

Okan Saçlı

Jan 29, 2019

Natural Gas Fired CCGT Power Plant Project ALES

This project is located in Aydın, Turkey. It was completed and commisioned in 2012. I was the acting project and construction manager for this 63 MWe Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle power plant. Some of the key figures and critical items are follows; 45.000 m2 landplot GE LM-6000 PC Sprint NG Turbine + Generator Aalborg Heat Recovery Steam Generator GE Thermodyn 6-7 MC9 14.150 kW Steam Turbine + Generator SPIG Water Cooling Tower NG PRMS Station 11.5 kV / 154 kV Grid connect

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TIER III Data Center Project - Vakıfbank Istanbul Umraniye

Okan Saçlı

Jan 29, 2019

TIER III Data Center Project - Vakıfbank Istanbul Umraniye

This project is located in Umraniye - İstanbul. It was a fit out project where the car parking area located at the basement of a building was totaly knocked down and converted to a TIER III datacenter. Total construction area, including outside genset and chiller installations were 1500m2, with a whitespace area of 365m2. This was a turnkey project, including uptime TIER III compliant detail design, civil and architectural works, complete Electromechanical Balance of Plant, c

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Polyethylene PE Plant Fire Fighting and prevention Project - Egypt Ain Al-Sokhna

Okan Saçlı

Jan 14, 2019

Polyethylene PE Plant Fire Fighting and prevention Project - Egypt Ain Al-Sokhna

This project is located in Ain Al-Sokhna - Egypt near the red see. The plant is the second biggest investment of Hayat Group in Egypt (The first plant is located in 6th of October near Cairo). Acting as the project manager, we designed, installed and commisioned the water based sprinkler systems (according to NFPA13), CO2 based extinguishing systems with local applications, electronic detection and activation systems and hydrant lines on an EPC basis. #engineering #engineer

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MIP (Main Instrument Panel) and flood lights

Okan Saçlı

Jan 14, 2019

MIP (Main Instrument Panel) and flood lights

Self made MIP Panels masking LCD displays behind them. Flood lights by halogen lamps. Dummy footrests designed and manufactured by myself. #simulation #flightsimulation #engineering #engineerslife #airbus #a320 #airbusa320 #design #construction #progress #turkey #turkish #challenge #flying #aviation #avporn #flight #cockpit #homecockpit #avgeek #technology #aerospace #simulator #homesimulator #technics #aviationlove #airport #airbusa320simulator

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Hello I'm Okan Saçlı
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Airbus A320 Flight
Simulator Project
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Airbus A320 Flight Simulator Project Engineering Projects

Airbus A320 Flight
Simulator Project
Engineering Projects