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[RAF_Loke]

These has been taken a little over a year ago, but the only thing changed is the monitor.

[SAS~CirX]

... your pit is a cheat CirX, cause you've got extra keys just under your screens ...

 


Jiver: Cool stuff man, That joystic with the extention is just  brilliant. It is a great toybox you got there.

Is the Keyboard permanatly attached or can you detach it to you lap, or is it velcro'd? And lastly, absolutely stunning job on the wiring! (always first thing Ilook at)

S!
CirX

[neuro]

Great stuff Jiver. I love that stick. Did you do that yourself? You dont happen to have a project to post?

[Jiver67]

Thanks everyone for the comments! In response to Crazyflak's comment concerning my lack of pin-ups, I had to improvise a little here. Everyone say hello to Adelle and dee bearded clam pleaze.....        

[SAS~Bombsaway]

Dude! Not that kind of cockpit.

[Jiver67]

CirX,

The keyboard is mounted to a plywood board using velcro. Unfortunately it is not easily removed. The idea was to get the keyboard out of the way but close enough to hit the escape, and outside view keys when needed. This is something I would probably redesign if I were to build another pit.

Yeah, I'm pretty anal-retentive when it comes to wiring....hence the conduit and tucked away wires.

[Jiver67]

Neuro,

Thanks! Yes, I designed and built this myself. I don't have a project log or anything like that but I do have a lot of pictures that I took during the build process. If there are any questions you have let me know and I'll be happy to share what I did.

[Jiver67]

Triad and Bombsaway,

Yes, a cockpit indeed!!!   

[neuro]

The keyboard is mounted to a plywood board using velcro. Unfortunately it is not easily removed.

you could just make it "double-face": mount it on an up/down thingy that you rotate  90 deg backwards. The keyboard visible in the picture would end up under the rotating thingy... and another keyboard on the other side would fix the problem: I use a second keyboard on my left-hand side as you can see from my picture, you could use a second keyboard that is used when you need to actually type words

[neuro]

Jiver: isnt that monitor way too high? I removed the bases from my monitors to mount them lower, and I would like them another couple of inches lower.

Besides: big screens look good but widescreens actually reduce the field of vision (in the vertical). The only way to actually enhance visibility is to use multiple monitors with SaveAspect=1 and Use3Renders=1 (like ehm... that guy with the redneck cockpit).
I'm considering the idea of one huge widescreen with 2 smaller ones on the sides, rotated 90 degree, kinda like this:

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but that would create some problems with the Use3Renders thing, because the lines between the renders would be visible in the middle monitor. The second best option would be 3 big screens the tallest and less wide possible, run il-2 in a window and move it to the center before each game (PITA but awesome view). This solution would leave some place at the sides, so one could still see TS etc. The bad news: the lines between the renders would still be visible in the central monitor, this system would be physically difficult to set up (where do you place 3 big screens?!?) and  expensive too. Well into the several-thousands. (BTW, why the hell no one makes any 4:3 bigger than 19''?!?)
The best solution would probably be 3x projectors... but besides the space that it would take, I dont even want to know how much that would cost.

[FS~FoxBat]

Nice one.
A Norwegian real life pilot also made a flight sim in hes basement/hobbyroom.
Not as big as this one by fare but fully useble and with working hydrolics to simulate rol pitch and yaw.
Hes build was also quite a bit cheaper then this one showed here, and shows its possible even for a person without a visa poping out hes ass is able to build such a fun thingie.
It mostly takes alot of thinking and tinkering to achieve.

[Flanker35M]

S!

 My humble cockpit. Using Creative Fatal1ty headset, TrackIR 4Pro, Thrustmaster Cougar (slightly modded) + CH Pro pedals. On the wall signed paintings, left one Bf109G-6 flown by our leading ace Ilmari "Illu" Juutilainen with 94 kills. The right one signed painting of Fw190F-8 flown by Staffelkapitän F.J. Schoppe in Finland 1944 with 1./SG5. On table next to mouse pad the EVE Online Tactical Maps and of course the book of Brewster Sounds provided by Logitech Z1 Cinema system when not using headset.

https://www.mediafire.com/i/?gyxwmt2nwze

 And yes, got only a red X if tried to use "Insert image"