Nimitz69

Tried lower case as well ... complete failure , time to pull the handles I guess ... good thing I'm actually building an A-10 pit and only wanted to go there for general knowledge never liked flying the Viper anyway ... lol

No joy for ACES II ACES II ejection seat ACES II seat

Good thing I never had that as a test question when I went through TPS or I never would have graduated ... ! No I just put in 'ACES II' but I'll try that next. This is like when you go to a restaurant and see "Ahi tuna' on the menu. 'Ahi' is the Hawaiian word for yellowfin tuna so the menu actually reads ' yellowfin tuna tuna' .. kinda silly ...

So I went to register at Viperpits.org but can't pass their "are you human? test. One of the questions is: what is the name of the F-16 ejection seat? well when I flew block 30s and 40s back in the 90s it was the ACES II but apparently that's not correct ... lol. Anyone know what you're supposed to put in there?

So I went to register at Viperpits.org but can't pass their "are you human? test. One of the questions is: what is the name of the F-16 ejection seat? well when I flew block 30s and 40s back in the 90s it was the ACES II but apparently that's not correct ... lol. Anyone know what you're supposed to put in there?

Fair enough ... given my background in having a custom woodworking business for 20 years, building my full size, operator-on-the inside Dalek Abe experience working with fiberglass and soft metals, building the physical cockpit will be straight forward given the plans provided by members. I have some limited experience working with micro processors like Arduino since all the electro mechanical systems of the Dalek are operated via an F-15 flt control stick through a couple of Arduinos. However the real challenge will be getting all the cockpit instrumentation integrated with DSC which is one of the prime motivators for this. If I just wanted to relive my glory days flying jets in the AF I'd get a Quest III, Thrustmaster stick and throttle and call it good .... But I really need to do something useful with my Aces II ejection seat ... lol

So what about the mixed reality cockpit like seen in the video link @Deadman posted from Monday? Seems like the ultimate setup, a physical cockpit with all the switches, etc functional plus the emersion of VR for everything outside the cockpit?

Perfect, thx!

Fair enough but I assume that I at one extreme I could still build the full up physical cockpit to the real dimensions and panel layout with all real switches, gauges, etc and then via the mixed reality capability of VR along with DSC integrate operating the physical cockpit switches while seeing out the cockpit windscreen via VR? The only end of the spectrum would be to just build a simple cockpit with my ejection seat, stick, throttles and rudder pedals and fly entirely in VR? as someone who has been into building screen accurate iconic sci fi weapons I'm kinda leaning toward building as close as possible to a real A-10 cockpit trainer as I can. Just spit balling now but my cunning plan would be to first get a Quest III, Thrustmaster A-10 stick, throttles and rudder pedals and figure out how to integrate DSC with those. Then to build a complete 1:1 A-10 cockpit with all the correct panels, dials, switches, HUD , etc. And finally figure out how to integrate DSC with the physical cockpit and Mixed reality VR for the complete experience. This cunning plan would allow me to incrementally have capability while I continue to expand. I think we used to call this 'spiral development' when I was in DoD acquisition ... lol. Anyway, that my cunning plan after 5 mins of thought ... feel free to poke holes in it it only took me 3 years to build the screen accurate, operator-on-the-inside, fully electro-mechanical Dalek in the ath pic ... that pic was from MegaCon last year and is me, my wife and Jason Issacs (who is a good friend of ours - long story)

Nice! I'm missing the ejection handles but can always 3D print them if I can't find some real ones. Probably time to call in what remaining favors I have with my friends in low places in DoD ...lol

Guys for the responses! I forgot about the 'mixed reality' capability of latest gen VR like the Quest 3 so it looks like I can build a pit with all the physical panels and integrate with VR .. and finally put my Aces II seat to good use!

Hi all, just joined the forum and while I continue my vertical learning curve about the world of home flt sims I wanted to ask a couple of very basic questions to see if I'm thinking about all this correctly. Quick background: 41 yr career AF, 22.5 yrs AD, 18 yrs GS/NH, retired for good 2021. USAF TPS grad with 56 different aircraft flown including 4 yrs at NASA JSC as space shuttle flt control/propulsion astronaut instructor, one of only 4 Non astronaut AF officers every qualified to fly Space Shuttle full 6-DOF simulator .... etc, etc. ok so not new to full up military grade simulators, 1-G trainers and part task trainers but zero experience in world of home sims and DCS. Here's my basic questions. If I decide to go with DCS and VR this basically somewhat eliminates the "need" or "practically" for building a home cockpit with all the real panels since you can't see them while wearing VR right? A physical stick , throttles and rudder panels are very useful since you can still map them with DCS and VR together? Also, I get the 'immersion" aspect of being in a physical cockpit ... if the above is true, is it also possible to combine VR with some mapping of physical switches in the cockpit and out the window displays with monitors? The idea would be 1) people could watch what you are seeing via the monitors as you fly via VR and 2) you could do a combo of say start up and ground ops via the physical cockpit switch's and then once you line up on the runway, switch to VR for takeoff, flying and landing, then back to physical switches for taxi back and shutdown. i'll apologize in advance if a lot of this isn't realistic. BTW, I own a real Aces II ejection seat which is part of the motivation for considering building a physical cockpit with real panels ...