NZFF

Hi all
Its been a while since I last posted so here is an update
Ok, if you stand way back, squint while standing on you head (after a downing a few cold one's) then you could almost be mistaken for believing that this resembles a MD 500E

Unfortunately my carboard mock-up didn't turn out to good but here is the latest shots of the sim all be it bad.
I will remove the old door frames and try to find another material to make my templates out off.






Cheers
Rhys

Rhys , cardboard , the Blueprint , from their you can visualize and scale/place - Good plan She's looking Great!

Nice one yeah what you said Ian ,bit of chicken wire and fibre glass and you really do have a MD500 AWESOME dude love the inspiration you have ,hope it all pans out the way you want it too ,keep it up man ,,side note the misses and i had a good chuckle ,,but mean as blue print and effort

Wow nice mate
A few people are building there own simulator at NZFF.
Sow how long is it going to be before it's finished? a year?

Cheers
Daniel

Having built a desktop simulator myself, all I can say is "Hang in there" - the results will be well worth the effort! My current simpit took about 6 years to design and build, and it went through at least five design changes along the way! I started off designing a full cockpit like yours and TowerGuys sims, and then devolved it to something more modest. It was originally going to be a fully enclosed C172 sim, but I quickly realised that I wanted to be able to fly anything from Cessna's to 747's and everything in between. I also lacked the necessary funds and space for the project - so I settled on building something that would fit on a normal computer desk, but would also provide the immersion and realism required for it to be more than a simple 'toy'. The result of which you can see below.

The cardboard mockup stage is a very necessary part of the design process and will save you $$$ in the long run as you don't have to waste expensive materials on idea's that don't work!! Stick with it, I'm sure I speak for a lot of people when I say I'll watch this and TowerGuys projects with interest.

Best of luck!!
Mat

Early on in the design - mocking up the instrument panel with cardboard


The end result - a desktop simulator capable of controlling ANY FS aircraft! This being the PMDG 737 with RealityXP gauges on the panel, and GoFlight and Elite hardware


Nothing is better than flipping switches and having your simulator come to life!! This shows some of the GoFlight hardware and an electrical panel of my own making

Thanks heaps guys
Build time, I hope round about 12 months (I prefered to have it build yestarday ) Like most things I have heaps of ideas but its the technical side that is the challenging part
not to mention of course the money side.
This is the first of many mock ups before I start to fabricate the actual cockpit out of aluminum

Will post more shots soon

Cheers

Rhys

This is really cool.
I'd like to build a simulator but I don't really have the space or the money

Folks

Any simulator is good - There is no BAD simulator.

If you are happy with it - good on ya, if not - do something about it until you are happy.

The key is to build while flying - one step at a time - and research research and reaserch agin. Build while plnning ahead - so you will not have t do thing twice whe you progress.

Today more then ever - people seek better solutions for the desktop simming - this will drive the industry up, until a point you will have a full scale cockpit for a very reasonable price.

Meanwhile - enjoy what you have.

Good work fellas.


Isaac