metalnwood

I like the direction you are going. My only hesitation in the past was what might the lower resolution be like for the visuals. Obviously less than the 1929 in my 42" screens but it sounds like the immersion wins out. Also the fact that you will have your own HUD and gauges in the cockpit, not the virtual cockpit means the resolution of the landscape can be lower. Are you in a part of the states where everyone has air con? I reckon my space would heat up really fast but as always, there are ways around this. I am especially glad to here you couldn't go back to trackir, that in itself says something. So Flim, when are you going to start thinking how you getting it working for racing too lol.

Thanks Matz. The hard ing about being on holiday with a bit of Internet is reading up on stuff you would want to try and then not being able to. It's tough when the holiday starts to be a countdown for how many more days until you get back ;)

Looking good :). How distorted are the angles in reality from your eye point sitting in the sim? I think at one point you did have the camera there but things still looked a way out and not right for the screens at 90 deg to the front. Is there still playing around to do there?

Correct Kaiza, many more things to think about if you were to use it. I was just curious if it was possible. Home fries, there was no ils there and he states it works as I was describing, he also noted that its not as accurate ad the real thing but it clearly utilises the gsi etc.

Kaiza, that appears to be the functionality. Lots of things to forget about if you are not using them :)

Home fries, I understand what you are saying but you should take me for my word that what I am saying is the procedure they performed. I know what to do in the a10 as you describe but the question was is it possible to do in the a10 what they did in the f16. To quote another paragraph - ------- At about eight miles the ILS symbology fluttered and began its slow drop. This was the guide slope, the controlled decent, that I had to maintain to the runway. The other bar, a vertical one, would keepme lined up on the runway ---------- So it appears that at an airport that doesn't support ILS he set a mark point, about 1/2 mile down e threshold of the strip and told the f16 to give him ILS guidance based off that information.

I know about using it as a nav aid but this was a little different. The airport was not equipped with ILS capabilities but there was a known runway direction and the flight leader needed to safely bring down 10 f16's in less than 1/2 mile visibility. He needed to bring them down in an orderly pattern to ensure there were no accidents etc. After he made the MARK point he sent the coordinates to the others. Now, they didn't use this on their hud for their approach. Somehow the f16 had the capability to to use mark point and simulate the guideslope using the ILS instrumentation on the f16. I.e. the pitch steering bar and the glide slope deviation scale and glide slope indicator came in to life and worked as if the airport was equipped with ILS.

I saw this 3d model a while ago http://217.174.192.123/models/72CE93687A4C5E70/kamov-ka-50-cyclic-and-collective-sticks-grips-english-version

I am on holiday reading a book called 'viper pilot' and as you. Can guess it has an f16 as the main aircraft. There is one part where the pilot is describing having to bring down 10 f16's in 1/2 mile visibility and quoting the book he says -------_- ,I'd fly us down to the end of the runway using gps guidance and take a MARK point, a precise latitude and longitude for whatever piece of ground I chose. It could then be coupled with the aircrafts instrument landing system and would generate horizontal and vertical steering to that point in the ground. --------------- Of course this is not in an a10 but being away on holiday I can't check e manuals etc. I haven't heard of it being possible but wondered if it was?

That's twice in a week here i have seen the suggestion the hog is not good in other games. It has just as many buttons to map, just as precise and just as programmable to use in any other game as it is in dcs. Where does this line of reasoning keep coming from?

You can do it like that, essentially you want to drive 6 monitors off one 680. There are a couple things to be aware of. One is that the framerate may not be great.. The other is that you will need to be running in windowed mode and the other is that if you have 1920x1080 screens for the touchscreens then they will not be running at native resolutions as the th2go didnt support 3x1920x1080 at full resolution. Lastly, you couldnt put the touchscreens on the th2g0 because they will look like one large screen and windows wont have anyway to control each area of the screen off the individual touchscreens as you would like. This means that each touchscreen would have to be on an an idividual output on the 680 and the virtual cockpit on the lower resolution with th2go. At least that gives you something to expect.

I have heard that argument before but at the end of the day it has more buttons than anything else I can think of, each of them programmable and mappable to any function you want. If a generic one like the x52 just happened to be a replica of a stick from the f22 would it be any less useful for using any any number of games?

I have moved from more expensive sticks than $50 and it's easily worth it. I did find it a bit funny that you can live with the fact that two parts were not like the real a10 but not sure if you could live with the fact it wasn't a twist rudder lol. On that front it's nice to have rudder pedals, I think the saiteks are best bang for buck. I have the combat pedals and they work ok, I do wish the brakes were a little different though..

Good luck Mike, I am sure you won't be to far away from having a machine. You are lucky being in the states, you can get all the supplies so cheap. I made a joes 4x4 but the prices for the bits so so expensive to get locally or bring over that I ended up making a highly modified all aluminium one with proper linear rail and a water cooled spindle. It was a great machine until I decided I couldn't live with a half sheet size and had to go bigger :smilewink:

While we are talking about other peoples money - yeah, do it if you can swing it. :) Building a cockpit can take a bit of time, you play around with processes for example getting proper buttons done has taken a few iterations until I was happy with the results. You can only do it when you have the time, an hour here or there. Having a machine at your disposal makes all the difference for me. If you had it, trust me, it would get used for all sorts of things - stupid things like fancy business cards for yourself, other hobbies, things for the kids. I also have made stuff for my boys preschool. If you have never built panels before I am not sure you would get the quality you want by using someone else, at least not without them doing them a number of times for you until you get the procedure correct. I don't know. What lasers go for in your area but you could even get 60 percent or more back if you don't want it when the project is finished. I know over here I could get 100 percent back on it. FYI, the 3040 I posted on the other page is 1800 usd delivered to your local port. That includes an air assist ump, a large extraction fan, honey comb table, water cooling. Plus more accessories if you wanted.. Pm me your email and I will forward the price list I just got, if interested you should talk to them directly. I am very happy with the laser i got from them.

It's a cyanoacrylate based glue and is probably having a hard time getting the two plastics together. Probably the plastic on the lead is the issue. The hotglue would be better.

Yep, lets hope they take it somewhere. I would look at it although it would look better on a curved screen with a few projectors..

Oh bugger, 6 feet :) I used to buy the 6" ps2 splitter cables. It was much easier cutting off one side than re-soldering a long cable.

Thats a bugger, now you have to figure out if you want to hack at it or wait for another. Any way you can get your other cable and trim the edges so that it fits in the hole. It wont be secure but it could get it going without doing surgery on the extension itself.

Sounds like you have found the issue, now you have to figure out the solution. I have never seen one so out of thoughts on the debugging process now. Well, I suppose you could figure out if the connection is failing at the top of the bottom by reassembling half of it and plugging the cable in directly to the other half.

OK, for it to work properly you need to unplug the stick, when the ps2 cable is connected then plug it in. It wont work if you change while the stick is plugged in - usually. if you have the ps2 cable only plugged in and then plug it in to the pc and it doesnt work then you have a faulty cable. It happened to me a couple of times but it is rare. The part that screwed it up for me was when milling out the recess, it was very particular about how deep you could go. Go too far and you would sever the connection. It happened to me after about the 15th one I made and since then I tested every one I modded which was a pita but I caught another couple.

Did you change the screws? Possibly the connectors are not going in to each other far enough to make contact based on your first post.

Peter, it doesnt work with dcs titles yet. I brought it up because if they get it working with their motion rig then it can work with simvibe as it's the same control software used for both.

I bought their simvibe product and use it with 4 transducers on my racing rig. I reckon that is a pretty cheap way to get some thrills in to the A10. You will get the thumps when you are hit, the rolling, landing etc. The landing gear going up and down, locking in to place. Gun firing, shaking when stalling. All that kind of stuff - not to mention the blades thumping on the ka50. Simvibe doesnt use the game sound to do it, it's all driven by the games telemetry so I reckon it would be nice in dcs world if implemented. I guess the FC3 guys would even get the rumble when the afterburners go on.

Not sure, I imagine that the pot would share a common voltage on it's inputs but you want to hook up different devices that are probably not isolated. You could try it and report back what broke? You would really need to see a diagram of the pot to undersantd how it works and if you could wire it up to the different circuits. I would guess not though. They would need to run off a common ground as well if you want the same readings from the pot.