Generic Switch Panel

[Ksajural]

Hi All

i've read a lost of pages of this forum but seems i didn't find what i'm looking for:

i've started to fly DCS just few weeks ago but i play with FSX from years, what i need for my "home cockpit" is a switch panel for planes with 1 to 4 motors, so with:

master battery, fuel pumps (1 to 4), lights, generators etc.....

actually i've some devices plus 2 old keyboards that i customized (and use with Hid Macros):

http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/6792/img00038201301092019.jpg

i'm not skilled enough to buy one myself so i'm searching something finish or with just the switches with the front panel to customize.

i know about saitek:

http://mutleyshangar.com/features/aa/images/fsp_banner.jpg

but is specific for small planes (magnetos, just 1 fuel pump etc..)

this one can be a good solution:

http://www.desktopaviator.com/Products/Panel/Model_2100/images/img0003.png

but somethins are missing (fuel pumps, gen, etc..)

also this:



http://www.fspilotshop.com/images/vr-9.jpg
but there's not so much space to customize the front panel..

Any suggestions?

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You dont need any level of skill to drill some holes and place some toggle switches or buttons in a piece of board or panel. You could use hardboard, mdf, acrylic, sign board, corrugated plastic, stiff card etc to make a panel of any size. You could use MS paint to make some simple tags or labels to stick on.

To interface the buttons and switches to MSFS is easy using a leobodnar card, the website even tells you how to wire the interface up. Leo Bodnar, Simulator Electronics (http://www.leobodnar.com/shop/)

Please search this forum thoroughly as this is a very simple thing to do.

Aj