P51B Mustang Simpit

[chuckcrc]

Hi I'm a new member and I thought I would post some pics of my Mustang sim that I have been building. I'm still wiring it up but hope to take it on a test flight soon.
Contact me if you want any details
cheers

[JBaymore]

chuckcrc,

Hi and welcome to both SimV and to the "Homebuild Cockpits" forum.

[Smoke2much]

I plan to do a GA 1 or 2 engine 2 seater.  I am planning a modular construction so that parts can be changed depending on the aircraft flown.

It is currently in the wistful daydreaming stage but should be a reality within 24-36 months - I'm taking the long view.

Chuck, That is bloody brilliant!  I hadn't conceived of making it look like the moddled A/C from the outside.

Good luck with it!

Will

[chuckcrc]

Hi Will & John
thanks for your kind comments on the sim.
The pedals you see are the only ones that I found would work with Microsoft digitial joysticks.The links is
http://home.t-online.de/home/d-hofmann/homeeng.htm
These work very well and I am looking at modifying them for toe brakes. On the Hoffman home page they have a new model of pedals that can be fitted with toe brakes.
I use the sim for flying on Combat Flight Sim 1,2&3 and because of the number of aircraft I hadn't planned on fitting instruments, although I might fir an LCD display and use dual view or some thing similiar to display the instrumnet screen on.
I designed the sim so it could be backed onto a desk so that the monitor could be spun around with the front canopy removed so that it could be use for boring non-flying activities. see photos
regards
chuck

[chuckcrc]

Hi John
seems I still can't get the images to laod correctly. What am I doing wrong
regards
chuck

PS. when all else fails - read the instructions-- fixed pics

[chuckcrc]

Hi all
there has been a lotr of interest shown in this topic which is great because I wasn't sure if people were interested in WW11 simpits. So I got a few more detailed pics that people may be interested in for building control units like trim/flap of throttle.
cheers
chuck

[JBaymore]

Chuck,

WOW!

[Scorpiоn]

Good to see someone thinks like me!  I was going to do something similar to that, except with a Corsair, but the guages just cost too much. Interesting to see how this turns out.  Best of luck, Chuck!

-Mike

[randombeaner]

OH MY GOD THAT IS BEUTIFUL!!!

Just curiuos how long did it take to build?

[ozzy72]

That looks great. How many hours went into it?

Ozzy

[Fly2e]

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
GREAT WORK AND PLEASE KEEP US UP TO SPEED WITH YOUR PROJECT!
WE WANT TO SEE THAT THING FIRED UP!!

DAVE

[Skittles]

AWESOM!!! TOTALLY AWESOME!!!

[Madcat]

That is a nice tub. My question is, will you stay with that J/S or go HOTAS?

[chuckcrc]

Hi all
thanks for your kind words and support. I will try to answer the questions put to me in this thread.
1.I have tried to use thin sheet metal to cover all the control units and this rivited to the wooded base material. I have used about 600 rivits in all with the outside skin being rivited with countersunk rivits to give a smooth finish.
2. the trim wheel is made out of 13mm MDF and is two layers of wood glued together. I marked it out with a protractor and drill holes every 5 deg around the circumferance to provide the finger grips which I then sanded smooth. See pix.
3. the box on the right is used for 14 toggle functions within the aircraft's operations ie. carb heat, tail hook deploy(used for Hellcat in CFS2), wing fold, pitot heat etc. The other switches (red push buttons, rotary sw) provide a momentary on/off functions for game commands.
4. This project started in May 2001 with me designing the electronics to work with a bashed keyboard )see pix). I then built a rough prototype to test the concept and test the electronics before starting to cut wood for the Mustang pit. There have been long periods of in- activity, 6 months sometimes

[Madcat]

great work so far