Glenn Weston
05-23-2009, 09:29 AM
G'day all from Here in Sydney, Australia.
I have been building my sim for about 6 Years from it's first images in my head.
It took about 6 Months of reading, surfing & Planning before I even walked into the shed & picked up some tools to do the first cut.
I am still no where near finished however I have had a long break from building.
I used to post to a builders log forum at a site called "Simulation Hardware" which is now a commercial entity. They are now Pacific Simulators & Flight Experience & have shut down the forum where I used to post.
They were kind enough to give us few builders here in OZ some web space to intereact with aech other & share idea's at the time.
So I have not publicly posted any progress since June 2005.
Recently I have got back into things & have upgraded my projector screen from a bed sheet to a nice fixed screen & looking at expanding to multiple projectors. Hence I came accross this forum in the process & decided to make this my new home for posting progress reports & sharing my experiences & ideas with the community.
The previous forum hosts were good enough to let us save all our progress reports before they shut it all down so I will post all that information although it is pretty old. It still has imformation in it that I think could be valuable to other builders. There is quite a bit in there so I will have to do it over a period of a week or two.
My Simulator is what I have called a "Generic Fighter Pit", something like an F-18 or F-16 Pit but is not inteneded to be an exact replica.
I wanted something that was reasonable in size, relatively portable & easy to move around. i.e. could move it out of the way for other things in the shed, but give me immersion into the FS world.
I am intending to do a rear seat as well but still trying to get the front seat finished at this point.
I have invested in FSBUS & Opencockpits boards for the interfacing but still have not built any panels.
Anyhow thats it for now, I will start my progress reports in the "My Cockpit Update" section & welcome any feedback positive or negative & will look forward to meeting some new poeple on this great site.
Cheers Glenn.
I have been building my sim for about 6 Years from it's first images in my head.
It took about 6 Months of reading, surfing & Planning before I even walked into the shed & picked up some tools to do the first cut.
I am still no where near finished however I have had a long break from building.
I used to post to a builders log forum at a site called "Simulation Hardware" which is now a commercial entity. They are now Pacific Simulators & Flight Experience & have shut down the forum where I used to post.
They were kind enough to give us few builders here in OZ some web space to intereact with aech other & share idea's at the time.
So I have not publicly posted any progress since June 2005.
Recently I have got back into things & have upgraded my projector screen from a bed sheet to a nice fixed screen & looking at expanding to multiple projectors. Hence I came accross this forum in the process & decided to make this my new home for posting progress reports & sharing my experiences & ideas with the community.
The previous forum hosts were good enough to let us save all our progress reports before they shut it all down so I will post all that information although it is pretty old. It still has imformation in it that I think could be valuable to other builders. There is quite a bit in there so I will have to do it over a period of a week or two.
My Simulator is what I have called a "Generic Fighter Pit", something like an F-18 or F-16 Pit but is not inteneded to be an exact replica.
I wanted something that was reasonable in size, relatively portable & easy to move around. i.e. could move it out of the way for other things in the shed, but give me immersion into the FS world.
I am intending to do a rear seat as well but still trying to get the front seat finished at this point.
I have invested in FSBUS & Opencockpits boards for the interfacing but still have not built any panels.
Anyhow thats it for now, I will start my progress reports in the "My Cockpit Update" section & welcome any feedback positive or negative & will look forward to meeting some new poeple on this great site.
Cheers Glenn.