<div dir="ltr">OK, you made your first pic - that's a start - you want to do a GA pit and not a fighter.<br>now, you need to choose a Sim - FSX / X-plane / flightgear.<br>now lets see how handy you are - what do you know to do and what tools you have:<br>
do you know how to solder electronics? build in wood? alu ? steel ?<br><br>now choose the hardware to control your pit:<br>if you are handy, the cheapest and the solution that covers the most options is PHCC.<br>but here is a list of all of the options on the PHCC site:<br>
<a href="http://cockpit.varxec.net/electronics/interface_solutions.html">http://cockpit.varxec.net/electronics/interface_solutions.html</a><br>most of them are still available.<br><br>ok, now for the actual sim hardware:<br>
you can find real fuselages on ebay, so chap some less, you can build your own.<br>as for switches - either surplus stores or ebay if you want ones looking like the real ones.<br>if you don't care how it looks - get regular electronics ones.<br>
<br>displays is easy - ebay is filled with them and thay are not expensive, and the sims can output the info to them .<br><br>do mind that when people talk about fast gaming computers, they forget flight sims.<br>there is no other game that can even start to compare to a flight sim in it's hardware demands.<br>
<br>get the fastest CPU, at least 4GB of memory, and a the fastes vid card you can get.<br><br>Ido<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Clyde Stemberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cstemberg@mac.com">cstemberg@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br>
I was wondering if anyone could give me some help as how to start off a sim project. I would like to make a good sized cockpit, maybe using a kingair 350 as my plane. things i would need help on is what to use to start building? i.e lumber, metal etc. second is equipment, radios switchs flight displays and flight instrunments. How to hook them all together. then video projection or the screens to display the flight. Thanks.<br>
Best<br>
Clyde<br>
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