First Post - First Cockpit

[peterthisted]

Hi there,

Well, I thought I'd better introduce myselft before asking all the odd questions in the threads.

I am a 50 year old self employed construction engineer and have been simming in and out since the 80's.
Mostly MS flightsim but for a while Flight Unlimited which I found to be very good at the time. Unfortunatly they did not develope further.

7-8 years ago I changed from PC to Mac (no regrets what so ever ) and tried out X-plane for the same reason.
Not very good in my opinion, so when BootCamp came along, I was back with FSX.
Running very smoothly on my 24" iMac (I have 2 of them in fact working together via Wideview or MaxiVista).

Until a year ago, my only equipment was a joystick but started out as a birthday present I have now in stock Saitek Proflight yoke, Rudder pedals, Multi panel, Switch panel and Track IR (I do not use it however)

So I thought it should all be build together instead of just thrown on the desktop.
Yesterday I made the SketchUp model enclosed. It is not finished but something in those lines.
Planing also to enclose an old telephone panel as a panel only wired to a hacked keyboard or using the phone directly to interact with COM NAV etc. Could be via a Fax modem and a selft written RealBasic software program and FSUIPC (I am able to interact RealBasic and FSUIPC by now)
A cool thought, but I may need some help there

This would be my first SimCockpit and maybe later on a "fit a whole room simulator". My WAF is not high enough for that yet

By the way, I am living in the northen part of Denmark.

So, enough for now
See you in the threads ......

Re. Peter Thisted

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[Bjarne Horsbøl]

Hello Peter

Another builder from Denmark ..Jubiii !! and Welcome !!

Best regards
Bjarne Horsbøl

[Matt Olieman]

Hi Peter and welcome aboard. Sounds like you've been having an interesting Flight Sim experience Intersting about your Mac setup and drawing, quite clever.

I look forward to hear more of your project and wish you all the luck.