My living room cockpit

[Midnight_LS1]

2 x 4's, a logitech game controller, IBM easy yoke, joystick to USB converter, power panel, a car seat, wall tv mount, speakers, and a cup holder for my beer  ;)



'Around the World' trip in a Meljet 777-300ER with Boeing World Tour colors, on return trip from ZUUU to AK for refuel then enroute to JFK, all around the equator!


Top shift pedal on logitech steering wheel is for brakes, bottom shift pedal is for thrust reversers


cockpit gauges view


showing laptop comp mount


another shot:


radio playing 'ATC-Around the World' flying doesn't get boring for me with radio on  :P


all panel displays open

[Stormtropper]

No offense but how much do you weigh? Looks like all what you do is eat pringles and fly.

Anyway very nice contraption, simple but makes flying alot more fun!

P.S. Try cleaning your room and get a new rug.

[Midnight_LS1]

No offense but how much do you weigh? Looks like all what you do is eat pringles and fly.

Anyway very nice contraption, simple but makes flying alot more fun!

P.S. Try cleaning your room and get a new rug.

155 lbs

when i get my own house after finishing college, i'll have a flight sim room only  ;D

[Stormtropper]

I can't do anyting like what you did, my parents will kill me. I'm still in high school and working off of a lousy 21" screen and M$ Force feedback joystick.

P.S. Is it fun flying it from a 42"-50" TV?

[Fly2e]

YOU SHOULDN'T BE FLYING AND DRINKING!!
YOU MIGHT FALL OUT OF THE SEAT!  ;D  

NICE SET UP!

DAVE

[Midnight_LS1]

P.S. Is it fun flying it from a 42"-50" TV?

Well the tv only fits 800x600 32bit res. in it's setup, if i go higher, the screen is bigger than the tv can cover itself.  So i have to run flight sim in 800x600 in 32 bit to cover the tv screen good.

If i run flight sim at 1600x1200 in my notebook, all the numbers reads up crisp.

On the tv in 800 x 600, it's hard to read custom panel numbers like the iFDG MD-11F panel like alt, heading, speed, autopilot settings.
But with the default panels, I can read them fine.

Other than that, it works great for close to real type flying and the sound bass is awesome.

[Stormtropper]

Who cares about guages, I fly by my instincs only.

When your inverted and 20' off the ground then looking down your your airspeed will kill you, so I stopped doing that.

[Skittles]

I saw the steering wheel down to the left... What do you use that for?

[Stormtropper]

Probably either for stearing the aircraft's nose/tail wheel for for nothing.

[Smoke2much]

In pictures one, two and three I noticed a tube of triangular pringles.  What gives?

Nice set up by the way.

Will

[Midnight_LS1]

I saw the steering wheel down to the left... What do you use that for?

Ground taxi steering from gate to runway and runway to gate, panning in the simulator and buttons assigned to landing gear and flaps, with one spare to wings folding.