Some websites to get you started

[KnightStryker]

Here are a few sites to get you started.

http://fly.to/simpitwebring     <-----Webring=lots o sites

http://www.simpits.org

http://schooner.gotdns.com/eracer/Deskt ... ndex=5&tab id=7      <---This is really for homebuilt race car setups but has lots of good info that is basic to any kind of simpit.

http://www.migman.com/hw/cp/manufacturers.htm

http://www.migman.com/hw/cp_home/cp_home.htm

http://www.pilotshack.com/FlightSim.html

http://members.eaa.org/home/homebuilder ... tions.html <-----This is for real world homebuilt cockpits but can help in simpits

http://a.webring.com/hub?ring=cockpits&list&page=0    <----another webring

http://users.bestweb.net/~kcoyne/f100proj.htm <--- you have to see this one!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.avsim.com/hangar/flight/a320 ... /main.html

http://www.arhs.net/Recreation/Aviation ... truction/M ilitary/

http://www.flyfoxy.com/foxylinks.html    <------ good links to articles about homebuilding


OK that should keep you busy for a few minutes.  
Hope this helps out those already interested in homebuilding, and gets some others to turn to the "Darkside of the Sim World".

[Agamer]

thx for all the helpful links got some reading meterial for the next hour

[KnightStryker]

should keep you busy for more than an hour. Of course after you read this stuff youll start thinking of designs and more computer stuff, and then you have to figure a way to talk the wife into letting you build a big cockpit in the house (unless you are one of the lucky ones that don't have to worry about that last bit).

[JBaymore]

Here's another good description of a cockpit that does not use totally outrageous expensive solutions to the flight controls.

[JBaymore]

Just found the following website that shows a pretty nice setup that does not (yet) involve constructing an enclosure that resembles an aircraft cockpit.  It is basically a "desktop" type setup that involves glass cockpits stuff and Goflight stuff and so on.

The website presentation itself is REALLY well done.

Check it out at:

http://cdsdigital.com.br/flightsim/

best,

.................john