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i was just wondering what area your sim is taking up because i now have a dedicated " sim room" but wondering what sort of room would be best. so could you provide me with some dimentions and i can get a general idea of what room is taken up by the full sim. i am bouilding a half sim (ie captains side only) this would be best however full cockpit measurements would be fine.
your advice would be much appreciated:)
thanks
Hi Geremy,
My sim room uses a rear projection setup, so I need a long room to give me full width on the screen.
I have a full sized cockpit and can safely say my room is 16 feet wide (5m aprox) X 19 feet (aprox 6m long)
And I have a ceiling height of 8 feet (aprox 2.5m high)
Hope that helps..
Trev
12ft x 20ft with a celing height of 7ft at the lowest point (sides) up to a pitch of 14ft this is the space that I have allocated to my Sim.
I have a 12x14 room with 7'6" ceiling. I will be using the full size shell from FDS sitting on an 8" tall base. Top of sim will be 6'9"
4'x3' for the MIP and the center control stand extends the three feet out to about 7'.
Mine is only two-thirds of the MIP though, so it would be another 20" wider if it was complete.
My steel sim frame is about 1.5m square and sits down one end of a 4m x 5m room, the projector is 3.2 metres from the screen and the picture is 2m wide. I left enough room behind the seats for 'jump seat' observers who can sit on the window shelf.
Gwyn
yeah, i forgot to bear in mind when i decide to invest in a projector for visuals i will need an appropriate lenth so the projector focuses to a large size so i will need quite long room.
Unfortunately (!) an ever-increasing area. Just finished my second shuffling around of the room in as many weeks.
have mine in a 7x12ft ish spare room - used a wide angle lens from a camcorder on my projector to enlarge the image for the short throw.
Although I am toying with the idea of moving the sim to the garage as it's a bit longer and i'll be able to get some more cabin in. But I think my love of tinkering with old cars might be a problem there.....having said that, as i'm in the mycockpit madhouse, the sim wins every time!
mine is 7 by 4 meter with and 3.5 m high with the motion system in mind ;-) as it is hosting a piper twin now and used to have a Boeing cockpit inside, the room is big enough for some extra accomodations like flight planning desk ...
that sure is an advantage of a bigger room you can get things like a flight plan desk, cabin, motion system, better visuals etc. thanks for your help guys keep it coming if neccessary!:)
My sim lives in our converted attic. It's a full converson, with proper stairwell up to the attic, full 'Dormer' windows, etc. It's about 12' x 12' and houses just my sim and a music production workstation.
I love being "up in the attic", it gives a real sense of being somewhere different! And as I about 30' up in the air, I am pretty much flying for real ! :)
My sim is in a 1.8m wide by 4m long caravan which leaves little room to work,
all the main MDF & timber cutting has to be done out side.
Building of the cockpit is restricted but the upside is that Knowing that I shall be moving house in five years I don't have to take it apart and rebuild it.
Also I have a real under carriage with real tires to kick,lol. Unfortunatly I
can't use a projection screen which is the way I would have liked to go.
Phil.
My 'hangar' is still to be finished on the inside but the basic demensions are 16.5 x 16.5 x 8.5 feet.
Im glad someone else has already figured out that you can use mirrors to shorten the throw distance!