I am in the planning / parts acquisition phase of a Hornet simpit project. I am building out a dedicated room in my basement which will be dedicated as the simpit, with an adjoining room to house the computer and sound equipment/wiring etc. Carpeted, sheetrock walls, HVAC etc
The attached Sketchup images details the room, the cockpit and the plan for multi-monitors.
My PC Plan is:
AMD Ryzen 9 5950x w/ Gigabyte X570 mobo
64gb RAM
Nvidia RTX 3090 GPU
Separate SSD/NVME drives for storage/game and OS
I plan to purchase the Cockpitshop (Tejay Stang) F18 Cockpit + Seat KIT (precut pieces, assembled by me)
For the control panels, I have used the NATOPS diagrams and have blocked out each sub-panel to be implemented by sourced USB controllers,
such as:
the WinWing Throttle Quadrant (Flight Ops Panel)
Thrustmaster F-18 HOTAS
TEKCreations Left Panel (USB)
TEKCreations Right Panel (USB)
TEKCreations "Hornet UFC USB Controller"
TEKCreations "Hornet Landing Panel" (USB)
TEKCreations "Hornet Right Warning Caution Advisory Panel" - USB Controller
TEKCreations "IFEI Panel" (Panel only, no USB)
TEKCreations "ECM Panel" (Panel only, no USB)
I have also purchased the Andres "JetSeat" USB device for vibration effects
TEKCreations also makes most of all the other acrylic panels for asthetic purposes which I will use what is they have to round out the rest of the MCI,
I do not really want to go the entire full-blown route of trying to replicate everything 1:1 and have to source switches and wire up with Arduino boards etc.... hoping I can do 95% of everything with sourced USB controllers
For the 3 DDIs, I will use 3 "Cubesim" USB LCD displays, enclosed with the Thrustmaster Cougar panels, and do all the necessary .lua configs to extract the screen outputs to drive the cubesim displays.
My plan is to wire all the USB controllers to USB hubs, and run one or two USB cables from the simpit HUB to the computer, and hopefully Windows/DCS will recognize everything!!!
So, one big question I have is, I have planned on 3 65" Samsung Curved LCD 120hz UHD 4K TVs as arranged in the Sketchup model..... and the question is, will there be any issue with the 65" displays working with a Track/IR?
Anyone have any feedback on the above plan, like the USB components or DDI controllers, before I go down the path too far?
Thanks,
