Post by bart on Mar 17, 2018 12:23:47 GMT 2
Hi Everbody,
My name is Bart, I live in France and just recently had the idea to start with a flight simulator. The next idea was to built a cockpit and after long consultations with my wife (space, costs, feasibility etc.) I decided to built a Cessna 172 cockpit. After some studies on the internet the choice was made for a Cessna 172 P model with a possibility to change later to a glass cockpit etc. I have a room dedicated for my flight sim which measures a "great" 145 cm wide and 185 cm long which in my opinion is ample space for a cockpit. The limitation is a door which gives access to this room so I have to built my simulator "modular". For this I will use floor plates from 18mm plywood with here in the EC standard dimensions of 122cm x 61cm. I will bolt 3 of those pieces together so that I get a useful surface of 122 x ( 3 x 61 ) so I will end up with 122 x 183 cm which would fit nicely. The front module will exist of footbay(s) and dashboard section and plenty of space for hardware. The second section will have the rails and seats and the third section has to be decided upon.
So far the initial setup and drawings and pictures will come later.
For the simulator itself: for me the base is X-Plane 11. First I will only use 1 single screen for the outside world and a second screen for the gauges display on the dashboard panel. Probably the gauges screen to be made with Air Manager or ArdSimX. In a later stage I want to increase the number of outside world screen to 3 and built all the gauges individually with steppers, servo's etc.
The whole idea is to keep costs at the minimum and make everything myself as much as possible. Having said that, for instance, the seats will probable come from a car junk yard etc.
Originally I'm and electronics guy, however I rebuild an internal waterways ship from a bare hull and rebuilt our farm house in France so nowadays I also have some experience in woodworking.
So this is my start, I learn a lot of you guys (all of you) and I will keep you posted at irregular intervals about the development. Enjoy the hobby and keep exchanging ideas!
Bart
My name is Bart, I live in France and just recently had the idea to start with a flight simulator. The next idea was to built a cockpit and after long consultations with my wife (space, costs, feasibility etc.) I decided to built a Cessna 172 cockpit. After some studies on the internet the choice was made for a Cessna 172 P model with a possibility to change later to a glass cockpit etc. I have a room dedicated for my flight sim which measures a "great" 145 cm wide and 185 cm long which in my opinion is ample space for a cockpit. The limitation is a door which gives access to this room so I have to built my simulator "modular". For this I will use floor plates from 18mm plywood with here in the EC standard dimensions of 122cm x 61cm. I will bolt 3 of those pieces together so that I get a useful surface of 122 x ( 3 x 61 ) so I will end up with 122 x 183 cm which would fit nicely. The front module will exist of footbay(s) and dashboard section and plenty of space for hardware. The second section will have the rails and seats and the third section has to be decided upon.
So far the initial setup and drawings and pictures will come later.
For the simulator itself: for me the base is X-Plane 11. First I will only use 1 single screen for the outside world and a second screen for the gauges display on the dashboard panel. Probably the gauges screen to be made with Air Manager or ArdSimX. In a later stage I want to increase the number of outside world screen to 3 and built all the gauges individually with steppers, servo's etc.
The whole idea is to keep costs at the minimum and make everything myself as much as possible. Having said that, for instance, the seats will probable come from a car junk yard etc.
Originally I'm and electronics guy, however I rebuild an internal waterways ship from a bare hull and rebuilt our farm house in France so nowadays I also have some experience in woodworking.
So this is my start, I learn a lot of you guys (all of you) and I will keep you posted at irregular intervals about the development. Enjoy the hobby and keep exchanging ideas!
Bart
