What will be your final monitor set up.
A while back, when my wife was out for the day, I put my 3 monitors away and brought her 40 inch TV over to my desk and set it up. For quiet a while I wondered how I could tell her that I needed a 40 inch TV too. Finally I gave up.
If you can, before you finalize your plans, beg, borrow, or steel a large screen TV. Give it a try. I'd prefer one very large screen to the 3 computer monitors that I'm using now.
The ONLY way that it would work for me is if I had space for another desk & computer set up. Maybe you have more room.
The only other advice I could offer is to get the
Saitek TPM. The Cessna, and several other planes use this Push/Pull system. There is NO substitute if you want to build that type of cockpit.
Saitek, as always, does the software half-assed. There are 9 toggle switches on the right side. THEY ONLY REGISTER A CONTACT WHEN FLIPPED DOWN! That's right, you flip it up and there is no contact on that side.
The solution is to use FSUIPC to assign a command when the contact is made, and another command when the contact is lost (like Landing lights on contact/Landing lights off when there is no contact). If you haven't used FSUIPC, don't worry, it's VERY easy to do. No programming at all for something that simple.
Not really needed is a
small wireless keyboard. I have the
IOGEAR Multi-Link Bluetooth Mini Keyboard it can be stowed away in a second, and pulled out when needed.
Maybe not needed, but much better than a full sized keyboard with a wire trailing out the back.
(Hmmm. I wonder if my wife would mind me building a sim pit over her sowing machine?)
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:22 pm
