Building your Home Cockpit

[gera]

Hi Guys....
I finally got my "home cockpit" (Stage I) going. I always wanted to make one since the sim experience is really enhanced if you are somehow "enclosed" in the plane and the sky surrounds you without other distractions....I din´t want to make a big contraption and was willing to put as little money as possible ,but get a nice outfit.
You can make one for around $400.00 for the hardware(not counting your PC) and the "cockpit for less than $ 15.00!!!!!!!".....sure just buy yourself 3 sheets of Foam Board and some brown and black cardboard to cover and strengthen it and you all set...:kilroy:

Hardware to start: Yoke, Pedals, "Desktop-Aviator" Autopilot Panel and their Avionics 8 switch panel (both for less than 200 buckaroos!!). I use two 19" monitors which have enticed me to go to four before the end of 2009!!!! with the extended view you get 38" of sky in full technicolor!!!!! :icon_lol:

Turn the room´s light off, start the sim, sit down and fly "inside" your preferite aeroplane and fly man, fly!!!!!!!......for less than $ 15.00 if you don´t want to spend any money on the additional hardware:friday::applause::applause:

[MCDesigns]

Cool deal, I used to want to build a home pit with FS9, till I started doing more real flying.
I realized the experience in FS will never come as close to the real deal in my mind. I think it's the lack of the actual danger factor and the peripheral sensations that make the difference for me.
I also fly to many aircraft to have a sim of just one built. I tried to confine myself to one aircraft a few times, but I couldn't do it, LOL. If I did build a simpit, it would probably be a Huey pit :applause:

[gera]

Hi Michael....Make one like I did. I fly all kinds of planes from big jets to bush planes and hellis...its a "General" cockpit....I´ll take some pics and you´ll see how easy its is and you do get a better "feel"...
...you are right, I flew for 16 years and nothing can give you the real feeling, only a real plane can...but the sim is a fun substitute...