Re: My Cockpit Project

[TacitBlue]

Hello, and welcome tom SimV! Sounds like a great project, cant wait to see pictures. How well does the fresnel work? Ive tried it, but not with a lense bigger than my monitor.

[Imzzaudae]

Thanks for the warm welcome!

I will get the pictures posted as soon as I figure out how.

I have them ready to go but can

[SilverFox441]

Congrats on joining the ranks of the insane!

To post your pics follow the helpful instructions found here: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/ ... 1077904304

Pretty much all you need to know is in that post.

[JBaymore]

Imzzaudae,

HI and welcome to the "Dark Side" of Simv

[TacitBlue]

Cool, are you going to mount the instrument monitors in cut-outs in the panel?

[JBaymore]

Imzzaudae,

Hey... that's looking nice already.

Got some shots of your gear lever assembly?  I've been assembling ideas from all over on that one and am always looking for input.

Mine likely will have multiple momentary switches involved to provide some "logic" for annunciators in various parts of my pit.  Also to drive a real motor that will provide slight tactile vibration when the gear is in transit.  And so on.


best,

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

[Imzzaudae]

Thanks for the pat on the back!

Yes I am going to drill the panel for viewing gauges.
Still working on the panel.cfg so I know where to drill.

As you may have already figured out I'm going to be flying a Dash7. With lots of steam gauges on the right monitor!

Seeing I have had a love affair with the FS 737 panel
the left monitor layout and gauges will be like it.

Will post a picture of the gear leaver assembly on the weekend for you. It's so simple it's scarry but it works.

The wooden box the seat sits on has a 12" woofer in it
put a sterio Y cable into the sound card so I drive the headset with one side and the amp to run the speeker the other. I feel every bump and grind when the gear or flaps are moving as well as engen speed and tires on the ground.

Been working on the sound.cfg for quite some time so it has all kinds of bumping and grinding. I can actualy fly it on the big monitor while I'm working on small stuff.

All panel fronts will soon be a blue gray like smoke.

The dash and all body panels are flat black.

I ended up with a 3rd 15" monitor this last weekend
so now I have to go find a forth video card.

I may move the Flap switch and gear leaver up to the main panel and install a 4th monitor for GPS and radios.

I'm 8 NM 143 from CYZR so I get to watch the real thing
daily.

Regular CYQG, CYZR, CYXU, CYYZ. Many others.

Anyone flying there home builts yet?

[SilverFox441]

Mine's not built yet...but we fly the same neighbourhood! I fly CYYB/CYTZ mostly but TXKF for "vacations".

[Imzzaudae]

My pit is 48" long and 39" Wide.



It took a little tinkering but here are a couple of better shots

After many years of desktop flying and almost as many
Dreaming of the day I'd build my own home cockpit.

So the story begins.

Countless hours scouring the Internet, Searching hundreds of websites!

I began to draft a simple single seat cockpit with panel, center console and rumble seat.

As I already have a CH Products USB Yoke, Ruder pedals and 4 Engine throttle.

I have designed them into my cockpit project.

I elected to go with a 21