![]() ![]() Don't Place them Deep inside your Cockpit. Make Sure That You are Able to Reach The USB Cables Easy. And Label All the Cables To make it Easier If You have to Unplugged Things Later. For the DIY builder, e ach cockpit shell can be built in your own backyard, garage (or maybe a friends garage) over a few weeks or perhaps several weekends. Of course, the total investment will increase depending on how advanced and realistic you want to make your home cockpit. If You Build Yours ,Leave Room On your Cockpit, For Upgrades. Each SimSamurai flight simulator cockpit design is a sim cockpit shell ready for your own customization with computer hardware, monitors, and USB flight control equipment. As a pilot and flight simulator enthusiast, I was keen to share my passion for flying with as many people as I could. Home flight simulators can range from a simple desktop-mounted joystick in front of a laptop, to entire cockpits that resemble the real aircraft. Now Go And Build Something And Hey Hey Have Fun. Do Not Over load The Hubbs Connect 3 to 4 Instruments On Each Hubb. A Dedicated Computer Something Fast And Powerful To run All the Instruments Two Monitors 3 Powered USB HUBBS Buy Good ones The Cheap ones Will Burn out. Saitek Pro Flight Yoke Throttle Quadrant X 2 T,P,M System Multi Panel, Switch Panel, Instrument Panel X 6 Rudder Pedals, Cessna Trim Wheel, GPS 500 By VRInsight Hand Brake, This was Purchased From DeskTop Aviators, The Case & Connection Done By Me. All The Instruments Are By a Company Called Saitek List Of Instruments. Make Sure To Label Each And Every USB Cable Once All the Cables are In place This Will make it Easier to Reconnect If You have to Remove And Installed New Items. Once you are Happy With the out come Then Transfer all to a PVC 5 mm Think Any Thinner And things Will Just move As you Press Buttons Etc. Make a Template For the Instruments, Cut it And Place Instruments / inside. The 1st Thing to do is Make a Drawing How Big How Tall ETC. The Base is 40 Inches W by 9 Inches Tall. The Cockpit is 40 Inches Wide By 20 Inches Tall. So I Decided to Build A Cockpit To House All of the Instruments I took the Measurements From a Cessna 172, Trying to keep all as Real as possible. Playing MFSM X using a Key board,Or aJoystick, Gets a bit Boring. I’ve seen videos of really wonderful cockpits that people built at home, but more often than not these require expensive modules and the total cost easily goes into the thousands.This is by far my Favourite Project it 's my Second Build. I realize it looks nothing like any real airplane cockpit, but I don’t mind. Of course all the screens of FSRadioPanel can be used: Why not create a panel that has encoders, switches and 7 segment displays to control the autopilot too? This idea led to a new 3D design for a Radios & Autopilot panel. With this working so well “Why limit myself to just four encoders?” I thought. There will be a separate video on how to do the MobiFlight configuration soon. It all worked right away … I was able to control FSX parameters like the NAV1 frequency and the heading bug. I connected two encoders to an Arduino Pro Mini and tried it out. Then press ‘Run’ and we’re all set to go. The next step is to configure the flight sim functions and parameters we want our hardware to control or to read out. Hardware like encoders, switches, displays and servo- or stepper motors is configured via a PC user interface, after which MobiFlight generates the Arduino code and uploads it. If you’re into Arduino programming that is … if not then it’s a con. This gives much flexibility, we can code what ever we want, which can be a pro. ![]() We’ll have to write the code to handle encoders, switches and displays ourselves. The interface uses predefined variables for the flight sim parameters, which can then be used in the Arduino sketch. Both apps require FSUIPC to be installed, which I already had anyhow. They make it possible to access almost any flight sim parameter. Two solutions to connect an Arduino with a flight sim came up. How to connect the encoders to the flight sim? Being an avid Arduino user (blog: Rudy’s Arduino Projects) I Googled for Arduino + FSX. ![]() To imagine how this could look like I made a 3D drawing of a panel. ![]() While using the FS Radio Panel Android app, see the previous video, the idea came up that it would be nice to have physical knobs to operate the radios. ![]()
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