Since I've been found out by the 'Cologne Gang' over at Share-a-Screen, here some of mine.
Working like a boss (cockpit "disassembled"):
Cockpit "reassembled":
Nothing fancy 'xept for the fact that I programmed the [use your imagination] out of that X52. In fact the papers that you can see on the bottom left of the first picture are a list of
all commands that IL-2 has to offer, and the keyboard combination and/or stick button they're assigned to. Btw yes that is a plastic rat next to the screen, and no I don't know what it does there
Oh and yes, that is an i486 laptop on the other side of the screen, next to the floppys - everything pre-MsWindows, I'm not old enough to know first-hand but I can still operate it.
My very first cockpit (back in 1999, f yeah. Minisoft Flight Simulator 5?), me teaching a friend how to fly the Cessna with a Saitek X1. I still have that stick. I had to move the throttle via mouse drag'n'drop. Pain in [where the sun don't shine] with multi-engined planes like the Learjet.
For something more recent, this is a hack I performed with my old Cyborg Evo so I could fly Helicopters more or less realistically in FlightGear. The Potentiometer(?) of the throttle is now rigged to a collective-like stick. Connection is made via cinch cable and sockets we had lying around.
PS. I didn't bother going to the basement to get a pic of my "ride". Fortunately it's fuel-efficient. Sadly it fuels on whatever I had for breakfast.