Hello GA Builders!
It would be nice to have an update of your GA simpits, no matter what state or condition it in, or however far you have got.....
So get your camera out and take some snaps!!!!
I look forward to them!
All the best!
Alex Jay
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Hello GA Builders!
It would be nice to have an update of your GA simpits, no matter what state or condition it in, or however far you have got.....
So get your camera out and take some snaps!!!!
I look forward to them!
All the best!
Alex Jay
Here are a few of the pix I just posted in the GA photo gallery of my C-172 simulator. Next step is building an enclosure.
http://www.mycockpit.org/photopost/d...2/IMG_1846.JPG
http://www.mycockpit.org/photopost/d...2/IMG_1845.JPG
http://www.mycockpit.org/photopost/d...2/IMG_1844.JPG
http://www.mycockpit.org/photopost/d...2/IMG_1834.JPG
I have a 3head to go on 19" screens, a 21" for an instrument panel, 2 22" for left, & right views, & a 7" for the moving map, pic of that didn't show it on very well but it works great. I don't like just 1 outside view, the instrument panel & everything else there so I have been flying X-plane 9 a Piper Cherokee 235. 5 seperate views, 5 seperate computers. I can't waite for someone to develope a fighter program that can do this. I just got back from a flight from ASX to DLH I got vectored in on the ILS 27.
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...09_0915001.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...09_0915002.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...09_0915009.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...09_0915008.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...09_0915007.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...09_0915005.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...09_0915004.jpg
I dont know how to post pictures inside the post, but I do have a photobucket page that has all the pictures, and a website that i am building..both are in my sig..
Not much of a "pit"..yet. but a collection of panels, I am still working on an enclosure design that is very loosely based on the DIYFLIGHTSIM fighter cockpit.
http://s168.photobucket.com/albums/u...h_IMGA0683.jpg
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...t/P1000296.jpg
I don't have much yet, just a panel and some switches.
http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/atta...9&d=1255703218
Here's a couple of pics of my dashboard. It's set in place on the monitor to check fit. I'm working on the radio faceplate sticker right now. I figured it was going to be cheaper, easier and more precisely done to draw it out and print it on a full page sticker than any other method I've come across. Next phase is to wire the switches and dials to the keyboard IC that will be running it all. I also chopped up my Saitek switch panel for a more realistic look. Still hoping to have the flight chair (in it's most current upgade stage) ready by years end.
John
http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/atta...1&d=1257708687
http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/atta...2&d=1257708687
Hi,
Here a quick view of my pit ,
well what is going to be.
Yes I still have to decorate the wall s , and do some finetuning:rolleyes::rolleyes:.
Also I`m on the look out for some interiorpanels,so If you know something anything at all .
please contact me
greetz
http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/atta...6&d=1257712777
http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/atta...7&d=1257712777
http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/atta...8&d=1257712777
This was my Queenair. Sold a long time ago.
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z...simoct05_1.jpg
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z...T/P1010967.jpg
the start of my GA cockpit:D
thought I start sharing what I have untill now (not quite there yet:D)
planning, lot's of fun! :wink:
http://i820.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/IMGP1222.jpg
Plexi glass attempt, discontinued..
http://i820.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/IMGP1229.jpg
custom made legends:D
http://i820.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/IMGP1234.jpg
new MDF MIP
http://i820.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/IMGP1241.jpg
the backstructure
http://i820.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/IMGP1236.jpg
well note quite finalised yet, but I'll keep you updated.
William.
You remind me of the days when I planned my Cessna sim.
I googled and printed out just about every Cessna cockpit I could find on the net!
Plexiglass for the MIP is not a good idea unless you have a CNC or Laser Cutter as one small wrong slip up and you have buggered the whole thing.
MDF is great for MIPs, it is the best material in my world, Hardboard is a little too fury for my liking as it doesnt sand too smooth, MDF is just perfect. For MDF Cessna MIP's I would not go any thicker than 6mm because your cut-outs would look too deep and unrealistic in terms of placing a screen behind. If you are using real gauges then use 12mm because you will need a deep cut-out to hold the gauges in place when used with screws.
I take it you are building a Generic Pit and not a Cessna?
Also where is your yoke going to be mounted?
Kind Regards.
Alex
Hello Alex,
Thanks for your comments.
Same here, been looking for weeks to find different cockpit lay outs to decide what to do :-)
You are correct about the plexiglass, broke in thousand pieces (so to say)…MDF works great. My current thickness is 4mm which is fine for projecting gauges (I think), they don’t look too deep now. Will stay with projecting for the time, hardware gauges will follow once the other parts are finished.
And yes, It will be a generic setup…kinda hard decision though… I was absolutely planning to make a mooney cockpit for 100% but Getting the correct gauges and exact measurements was quite hard. I therefore decided to get the speed of the mooney with the gauges of Cessna:-).
In the end, the fact you can physically look at your panel and control the aircraft via hardware is (for me) the ultimate goal.
I currently have the idea to put the engine instruments on the co-pilot side. I have decided to make “the best of two worlds” since there are instruments from both aircraft that I like. The anunnciator panel of the mooney for example, is something I really like. The panel dimensions are from Cessna…
The yoke is another story. I currently use the saitek yoke which will also be implemented in the first version of the panel. I will create a space for that so it will fit inside the panel. You can see the space in the picture left of the tumble switches. A rectangle is drawn there which represents the yoke “cut out”. I know that it will be to low in that case and it will take up to much space (to be realistic), but I want to use the new Flight illusion yoke once it is available and I have the money offcourse.
William
Hey great to hear your sim is in full swing.
You mention that you would like to buy the FI yoke, I have a funny feeling that this will set you back around 1000 euros, the simkits alone is 500 and that doesn't do half as much as what the FI yoke does, so better start saving the pennies.
A generic sim is usually a safe bet as you have nothing to compare against, you simply have what you what in your pit without the hassle of having to replicate a certain layout or scheme for instance.
Take the Cessna for example. The Cessna 172 looks simple in terms of gauge arrangements etc, but when you come to actually building it, you come in to so many scenarios that actually cause problems, GA builders usually like to build the Cessna 172 (the most popular GA aircraft in the world), and you realise that you cant have a cessna 172 replica by using soft gauges because of the physical layout of the MIP wont allow you to, the Cessna 172 was designed for gauges and not glass technology.
Anyway...
Keep us posted, your doing great, I love the idea of whacking your fuel gauges on the co-pilot side, I have seen that done many times, and especially with MIK's Cessna 150 sim from Finland (check it out: http://www.mik.fi/simulaattori/)
Keep us posted, and good luck...
Alex
just a mini update.
found some time last night to make the panel cut outs:smile:
The lower panel is slightly moved to the back compared to the top panel. The idea is to put a "dome" light behind this to create lighting on the lower panel.
http://i820.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/IMAG0014.jpg
and yes, that's a beer in the background, don't have much sparetime so I have to combine some things;)
@Alex Thanks for the link, looks fantastic! It was indeed the same idea that I had...
William
Wow, Looking good my friend....
I really like the lighting idea, and I am glad that the Malmi Aviation Clubs' sim has given you some inspiration in your build.
Kind Regards and keep us posted!
Cheers...
Alex
Hallo William,
ik heb nog een aantal onderpanelen voor een Cessna te koop evt met een complete set echte zekeringen.
kijk even op underpanels
groet Henk
This is dutch for professionals :wink:
Here 2 pictures from last weekend
http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/atta...5&d=1259787226
http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/atta...6&d=1259787226
Looks fantastic Kermit!
really nice you have a full enclosure!
William
Hi,
To get it in the room on the first floor was really easy,
although I had to cut the ceiling from the pit, with a special fibre cuttingdisk.
The cut itself was not even 1 mm, so you wont see it when the ceiling will be mounted again.
The fuselage wasn`t that heavy and with two friends it toke about 5 minutes
As for an understanding wife, Well :rolleyes::rolleyes:
Just a joke ,
But you have to have a wife that sees the joy of it, not that she understands though.
small man small toys, big man big toys:smile:
greetz
Hi,
Attached is a photo of my actual cockpit. But I will totally change it into a totally GA cockpit, see the attached drawing of the panel.
I have all parts purchased and I am waiting for the delivery :)
I will use a Elite AP3000, 4 goflight modules, I allready have the yoke AFCS II and pedals PFC and throttle PFC. I am also waiting for the shippement of a reel glare shield from a DR400 as well as panels from VFR-Cockpit.
I soon will be mounting all of this into my cockpit and will keep on posting as progress continues.
cheers,
http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/atta...2&d=1260258319
http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/atta...3&d=1260258319
AND here is the final cockpit:
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I love it
Running x-plane with fully functional gps
CPU i5 ; GPU HD5850 ; 4GB RAM etc... The graphics are superb
It is perfect http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/images/icons/icon6.gif
Here it is - arrived this morning -
Still a lot of work to do:
http://www.seething-airfield.com/sim...9/DSCF3835.jpg
And will take some time to fit out if I keep getting sidetracked like this:
http://www.seething-airfield.com/sim...9/DSCF3841.jpg
and this:
http://www.seething-airfield.com/sim...9/DSCF3844.jpg
Hi Great Build!
Did you build the enclosure yourself?
Do you have drawings to build this?
Thank you very much congrats on the build!
I wish I could say I built it myself - It was one of the club's PPL members.
Plans - what plans! I'll try and get some better pics tomorrow. Got to fit the simkits panel and other gubbins.
Hi all,
Very nice projects!! Especially Kermit, very similar to ours:
http://www.lentosimulaattori.com/index-eng.html
Also new avionics panel coming up:
http://www.lentosimulaattori.1g.fi/k...-+Spring+2010/
From sunny Pirkkala, Finland
Olli-Petteri
Hi Vectro,
Thank you , for your kind words,
It`s only fair to say , that I`m using your website as a guide
It`s very helpfull , with problems that are popping up.
greetz
Sure, no problem. Feel free to ask me anything:
robots@jippii.fi
You should also collect some history of your fuselage, for example if there are still some old logbooks available.
I managed to save the last logbook of our sim. It's very interesting to see where the fuselage have been travelling.
Maybe even gather some photos.
I wrote to Finnish sim/flight forum and kindly asked if anyone still got some original photos of our plane stored
and I actually got some.
http://www.lentosimulaattori.1g.fi/k...+II%2C+OH-CKU/
BR,
Olli-Petteri
p.s. Was your fuselage the one that Simkits was selling?
Here is my pit, its not really based on anything as yet, but i plan to buy a small touchscreen monitor and a 12'' monitor for gauges etc, but on my budget, these things take time! Heres the whole setup
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/...2a90b6405f.jpg
And all the more detailed photos are here
All of the other setups here look great! Good job guys!
Cheers, Jordan
You have the basics and space to make a great cockpit, you'll get there my friend!
Just a little update, ive added a few cosmetics and a small comfort fan control (ive yet to get the fan and install it! Im just going to fit a blower to give me some warm air on my feet if it gets a little chilly. I found an OXY indicator i bought a while ago and this will indicate when the fan is running, it just needs a small stream of air to operate. The switch for the fan is placed above with a guard, just for fun really! I still want to add switches onto the console for various things e.g. bttery/alternator, avionics and such like. This will come soon, i promise! Heres the pictures of the updates!
OXY indicator and Fan switch
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4093/...32bec06c0a.jpg
Left Console (Unpainted)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/...02570d1acb.jpg
Radio Altimiter Limit Switch, Unknown Gauge, TrackIR 4 & Sensitive Altimiter
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4098/...75dd7ea7dc.jpg
Chart Clip above Throttle Unit
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/...099457f357.jpg
Cheers,
Jordan
Attachment 4167Attachment 4168Attachment 4169Just a little update
2dof pivotpoint under construction
(shaft can be 20 cm pulled out for 3 dof in future).
greetz
Real C172 upper cowling is now painted with the original Cessna paint theme. Huge improvement to the realism.
http://www.lentosimulaattori.1g.fi/k...+nose+cowling/
A couple of photos of my in progress simpit. Actually it is more like part desk, part work bench and part simpit. Won't win any awards for good lucks and precision panels but it works and its mine. :) Generic in nature but loosely based on a Cessna 172.
Just finished the transponder and it needs some tidying up (ie. trim encoder shafts, add labels, etc.)
The large open area where all the Opencockpit cards, wires, power supply, etc are seen also houses a fourth flat screen which shows my panel as well as a yoke on the ledge which extends beyond the edge of the desk. I have not reinstalled it yet as I have some more wiring to do. I think my next project will be to build a MIP with encoders to control the various instrument controls (ex. heading bug, Kohlman dial, etc.) Or maybe an annunciator panel. Or maybe an audio panel. The list is endless with the OC hardware.
Actually the next project is likely a DIY CNC machine (and I thought the simpit was a drain on the wallet :shock:). I have been reading and planning for several weeks now and am totally hooked on it.
Cheers, Dave
Heh guys:
These GA sim pits are in a league of there own, awesome builds. They certainly helped me to rethink my first build. Working gauges and switches, annuciators, aswell flight controls some home built and others of trail and error. Great job guys. Here are a few of what I've been busy in my hanger recently, like a year and a half. C-FROB C/N 02 deHavilland Beaver.
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...kpitsim007.jpg
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...kpitsim008.jpg
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...hes/Pic653.jpg
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...kpitsim001.jpg
Was able to purchase the avionic gauges from simkits aswell a digital 32 input card for switches. Right now in the process of building a working centre yoke column and TQ using potionmeters to plug and play. The fusealage frame will be assembled this winter in the basement hanger.
For now
Bushman
Talk about craftsmanship.. That's awesome work. Being from Canada I recognized the beaver right off. Another bush pilot too. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to updates.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...4314.658669288 i need your advice guys it's not yet finished im having a problem with my dual monitor.
I think I could help. Please email me: robots@jippii.fi
Some great examples here which is great inspiration.
I am very C172/C182 focussed and in an effort to meet this goal and build a configurable cockpit to meet future GA configurations, I've decided to go with a glass cockpit.
The first picture in post #9 is the perfect pciture to descibe my current status.
More will come but thanks to all the posts do far.
Relatively new to this. Here's my setup.
Update. Not scale or anything but this is where Im at. Its a lot nicer to do approaches on than what I had.
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