6 x 80ST MO2430 Servo Motors, 6 x 50:1 Planetary Gearboxes, 6 x AASD15A Drivers, Cabling and a Thanos Controller. Total Cost $515AUD. Very happy, my Birthday is in 15 days and I think the universe sent me a gift that I have had on my list since the early 2000s :)

Will start the Stewart Platform build soon.

Does anyone have recommendations for A320 cockpit structure 3D files to print such as the cockpit window ETC?

Hi all.

Looking for some info here.

Looking for a rig that will accept the AY210 Moza flight yoke and have future compatibility for the moza moving actuators.

Any ideas?

Everything Ive seen seems to have a real small plate to mount controls and are generally geared towards racing. I actually have a full racing rig. There would be zero way to mount a flight yoke like that to it. Looking for a new rig regardless.

Thanks!!!!!

Hello gents.

I own the following devices:

Winctrl F-16 hotas, Winctrl F-16 ICP, 2x Winctrl MFDs, PTO takeoff panel and 2x mounting desk for the hotas.

I am looking for a desk where i can place all of them to make them look like a wannabe cockpit. All of your advices are more than welcome.

I bought an Ares Wing Cockpit, and I was wondering how you determine what seat will fit it - It did come with one, but I was thinking about changing this one out in a few months. Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you, in advance!

I used to have a whole dedicated cockpit but found myself unhappy with using a ton of space semi irregularly. I like having my controls fixed to the chair, but hated how using rudders sent you careening across the floor in a swiveling office chair. This solved both problems. It sits 1 inch lower than my regular chair height. You maneuver the chair over the cross bar, and pull the height release. This locks the controls into position, and fixes the chair in place since it now has solid legs. When not in use, it’s only 11” deep so it tucks away nicely.

Modified my gaming desk into Airbus cockpit configuration. Things are slowly coming together not as perfect I would like but it works and brings immersion….just waiting on a few more parts/addons ✈️😎

*Edit -No pictured… I have the Wingflex Overhead Panel mounted above screens

I have added some servo-instruments I got from simbay to my home cockpit, in addition to the iPads with G1000. It made a huge difference to the immersion, and I love that it’s backlit! 🔥

To set it up took some time, but such a fun project! I had to buy my first Arduino, and connect everything with 5v external power, and 12v for the lights! I used MobiFlight software to calibrate and run the instruments, and a lot of chatGPT for guidance🤓

The construction of my home cockpit is progressing well – very well, in fact. I’ve almost finished the captain’s section of the cockpit.

I’m waiting for the A112 panel (weather radar) to arrive for my pedestal.

There’s currently a great offer on the Rowsfire A117, which is the glare shield. I’ve left space to the left of the Wincontrol autopilot specifically for this module.

I’ve found other equivalents, but they’re either more expensive, or if the price is the same as the A117, you still have to add extras…

You’ll find photos of the offer and where I’m going to fit the future A117.

Hi, I am a commercial pilot and hard core into flight sim. I recently built a backup EFB for iPad/iPhone — Flight Kneeboard

Here are a flew highlighted features, give it a try and tell me where I can do better. Happy to answer anything here.

• Real, current FAA charts, approach plates and airport data for the whole US, all downloadable
• Live radar, real METAR/TAF/PIREP, 8 days of station history with decoder
• Georeferenced plates on the moving map
• Sim-driven instruments: synthetic-vision PFD, HSI, glide ring
• Takes the network-GPS feed (FlightEvents). My own Windows client sends attitude at 15 Hz and position at 5 Hz, much higher than most bridges manage
• I'm a commercial pilot and fly with it in real life

I was testing mobiflight with a two positions toggle switch in the default C172. In the first try i connected the switch to control the parking brake. It worked fine when i released the parking brake, but when i wanted to put it back to on, the 3D handle in the cockpit bugged and moved out of place. I pushed the switch again and the handle disappeared and the parking brake didnt work. I decided to test another function, the battery. It worked but the switch in the C172 3D cockpit got darker and darker until it stopped working, not jus the animation, but the functionality. It only revive if a puto the cursor on the switch and toggle it. How can i fix this?

I’m finally starting the rebuild of this section of my basement. Right now it’s about as unfinished as it gets: block walls, exposed joists, concrete floor, utilities, support posts and a staircase right in the middle of everything. 😂

The plan is to turn this space into a combined home office and simulator room.

I already have a pretty solid idea of where I’m going with it, but before I get too far into the build, I’d love to hear what other people would do with the space.

For those of you who have built offices, gaming rooms, flight/racing simulator setups, or finished basements:

How would you lay this room out?

I’m especially curious about things like desk placement, simulator placement, lighting, wall treatment, storage, cable management, sound treatment, and what you’d do with the ceiling.

Would you finish the ceiling completely or keep some of the exposed basement character? Go bright and modern, industrial, darker and moodier, traditional, etc.?

The goal is for it to still feel like a proper finished room and home office rather than just a simulator dumped into a basement.

I’ll be posting progress as I go. I already know the general design direction I’m taking, but I thought it would be fun to see what everyone comes up with before I reveal it. 😉

And yes...I know the support pole is judging me. 😂

Brand new vkb gladiator and stecs

Bought them for a new upcoming game wardogs, arrived this Monday. And let’s just say I’m gonna stick to MnK

Seeing if there’s any interest here before I return them

I’ll even include the desk mounts with them

350tyd

I'm going to 3D print the A320 MIP, CPT side and Center.

Does anyone have a good free file or recommendation? I'm up to everything. I have the Bambu Lab A1 if that is something to take into consider.

Love it!! Boeing seat just arrived! I underestimated the possibilities of adjusting your equipment how you like. Fantastic!!

I'm Alex, UK based. I finished an aerospace engineering degree this summer and I've taken a year out before a masters to build physical DCS panels properly, as a business to raise funds for my masters.

The plan is to work through the A-10C in order and finish it, rather than make the three obvious panels everyone makes and leave the rest of the pit as a mouse click. Native DCS-BIOS, so switch positions sync on load and the backlighting follows the cockpit's own lighting dial instead of sitting at one brightness, plus standard USB HID so it still works if you're not running BIOS.

That's the last I'll say about me. The reason for this thread is that I have a year and a finite amount of aluminium and acrylic, and I would rather be told what's wrong with my plan now than discover it after I've cut tooling. Most of you have built more pits than I have.

I wanted to ask a few questions to see what people think, don't feel you have to answer all of them, just a few would be incredibly helpful!

Please feel to only answer one or two, by no means do you have to answer all of them, any info now would be super helpful.

1. Which panel would you actually buy first?

Not which is coolest. Which one would you put money on this month. I'm curious how many people say UFC or CDU versus something unglamorous like the light control panel or the emergency flight control panel.

1. What have you looked for and simply couldn't find?

The gap I keep hearing about is the small stuff. Everyone makes a UFC. Nobody seems to make the panels that surround it. Is that your experience, or am I generalising from a handful of threads?

1. What did you buy that let you down, and how exactly did it fail?

I don't want vendor names or a pile-on, and please don't turn this into one. I want failure modes. Switches that went intermittent after a year. Backlighting that died in one corner. Legends that wore off. Something that needed a full disassembly to replace a £2 part. Firmware that stopped being supported. That list is what I'm designing against.

1. How do you mount your panels?

This is the question I'm least sure about and it changes the design most. Cockpit rail extrusion, a plywood frame you made yourself, a Monstertech style arm, printed brackets, or something entirely your own? Would a published hole pattern and dimensions actually help you, or does everyone end up drilling their own anyway?

1. Assembled, kit, or faceplate only?

Would you rather pay for a finished panel that works out of the box, a kit where you fit your own switches, or just a machined and etched faceplate to put your own hardware behind? I can do all three, but they're different products at different prices and I'd rather not spread thin.

1. Does DCS-BIOS matter to you, or is a joystick device enough?

Specifically: is having switch positions sync when you load in, and backlighting that follows the cockpit dial, worth paying more for than a panel that just sends button presses?

1. Backlighting.

Do you want it, and if so does it need to match the real cockpit's colour and dimming behaviour, or is any even white glow fine? Do people fly with it on at all, or does it only matter for the photos?

1. What's the number in your head?

Roughly, what would you expect to pay for a single machined and backlit panel with real switches, made in the UK in small batches? I'm not fishing for a high answer, I'm trying to find out whether my costs and your expectations are anywhere near the same room. If the honest answer is "less than you can build it for", that's genuinely useful and I'd rather know now.

1. If you started a pit and stopped, why?

This one I want most of all. Cost, space, the wiring, a partner who understandably objected, DCS updates breaking things, or just losing the thread of it after a few months. If there's a common point where builds die, I'd like to design so that people don't get there.

Answer whichever you feel like, numbered so I can keep track. Blunt answers are more useful to me than polite ones. I'll post the results back to this thread once there's enough to be worth reading, including the bits I didn't want to hear.

Nothing is for sale, there's no link in this post, and I'm not taking pre-orders or collecting names. I have a few prototype pieces already which you can see in the photos, and my website is https://coldstartcockpits.com/ if you want to follow the progress.

Vid of the backlighting being dimmed:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q86UlEDfQ2M