PropNut

Caraboose, the rib wood is 3/4 cabinet grade plywood. I cut them to shape with a jigsaw and then used and edge sander to clean them up.

I have revised the design a bit. I made the seat slide to the back for egress so the two sides are now stationary. I bolted two sets of 24" drawer slides (150# full extention) together giving me 50" of travel (1" over extention each). There is a heavy duty wheel mounted on the back of the seat to take the full weight of the pilot, the slides are just to guide the chair in and out.

I will have more pictures later tonight of tommorrow evening.

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rasa123

Sub'd! Amazing work so far, makes me want to get going on mine!

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Subbed- Can't wait to see this one!! I thought my wife had a lot of patience! I can't wait to show her this!! (a week ago I dug a 3.5' hole next to our house, drilled two holes through the side of our house, just for my geo-loop, check out my sig link...)

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caraboose

Needs moar pictures.

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you should get some used air craft parts for the cockpit from what i am told they are cheap because they can only be sold for scrap if they have to many hours on them

Jolly-Swagman

This looks pretty Awesome PropNut, well done!

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PropNut

Moar(?) pictures? You got it!

Things are really rough right now, the room the pit is in is not actually the room that it will be housed perminantly. We are clearing out a walk-in closet in yet another guest room (so we can still use the beds). The walk-in closet is 12'x7' so there is plenty of room for the pit.

The PC is mounted down but the PSU and drive tower is not yet bolted down. PC controls are mounted in the instrument panel, two vandal switches for power and reset and a LCD for the harddrive light. There will be USB outlets in the walls of the side units when this is done. There are, right now, wires everywhere but this will be loomed and hidden in time. The Simpit if fully functional right now (I chased a Fokker DVII around the sky a little while ago).

The Projector is an Infocus X1, the screen is a white bedsheet stretched onto a frame (pine) and painted with Behr "SilverScreen" paint. It gives and excellent picture about 6'x5'.




Here is a view of the chair slid out of egress, the trackball will eventually be buried with just the ball showing and two pressure plates to push the buttons.



The bass unit of the speaker system (creative 5.1) is under the seat when it slides up into place. The throttle quadrant is (obviously) homemade. I used some flat aluminium on pivots and hooked the pots via radio control airplane servo arms to the aluminium linkages. The knobs are cut off a wooden staircase handrail (oak). There are four pots, two throttles, flaps, and prop pitch.



The gauges are fake, simply built up to give them depth (face dial faces help) with plexi and printed gauges pasted onto the backs. There are 50 spaces for switches, right now I have 14 switches from a Saitek Aviator and 5 axis for the controls. Everything is working excellent. The PC controls can be seen on the lower left, and of course the CD/DVD face is mounted in the panel for ease of access. The keyboard drawer is pull out, you need to be able to "chat" in game so I wanted it accessable. The webcam (for headtracking via Freetrack) will be housed in a fake reflector site (leaning toward making a Spitfire unit)



Under the hood, it looks like a snarled mess right now but I will have it tamed soon. Once I have everything arranged I will strip everything out, paint up the pit before it is moved into its new home. The 9600GSO is an impressive card (especially for 39.99 on sale at newegg) it plays Rise of Flight smooth and looks awesome.



That is all for now, Happy?

Thanks all for watching....

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Kamakazi

This is officially awesome beyond all reason.

Can't wait until you get the Spitfire reflective sight, Spitfires are the best.

Any chance you know the approximate total cost of this unit?

PropNut

So far, my cost out of pocket is 130.35. That does not take into consideration all the extra parts that I already had...like the Q6600, mem, HD, plywood, screws, paint, etc.

I would roughly guess without the cost of the PC you are looking at around 200.00 for all materials on the basic shell (plywood structure) this does not include the components, rudder pedals, wiring, potentiometers, switches, cables, projector, etc. This includes the seat material (slides, padding, cloth, plywood, etc), the 3/4", 1/2", 3/8", 1/4" and 1/8" plywood.

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rpm666

Absolutely freaking awesomeness.

You'll need to liquid cool it for the hydraulic, fuel, and oil lines

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