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firestick22

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  1. Thanks for the compliment! And you're right, you can build a pit around almost anything. Like I said, my goal was just to get everything bolted down in the right location. I put together a rig just for the sim pit. I used a 2500K Sandybridge chip, an Asus P8P67 MB, 8GB Patriot Ram and an eVGA GTX 560. I run a Western Digital Black Edition 6gb/sec HD and it loads A10C pretty fast. I have a OCZ 600 Watt PS. All of that was less than $700. It is my first Intel chip in 10 years, as every other system I have is AMD. The 40" HGTV is on HDMI at just under 1920X1080 so that the windowed sim fills the screen. The second monitor has a VGA input and runs 800X600. I can drop a whole field of cluster bombs and fly right back through the smoke without a hit, but the frame rate drops to around 35 fps. I notice just a very slight stutter when flying thru heavy clouds. A 2600K and a 570 or 580 would be ideal, I would imagine, but I was already at the top of my budget. I can't say enough good things about the sandybridge chips. Even though I could overclock mine, I see no need to.
  2. I had a Samson audio amp laying around I couldnt get any money for, so now its my sound system, along with the Bose outdoor speakers that were also collecting dust. I got the sticker from the A10 East Coast Demo Team at the Cleveland Airshow. I showed the ground crew a pic of my pit and they looked at me like I was from Mars! They knew nothing of LOMAC, DCS or Thrustmaster. I've thought about a Buttkicker, but TrackIR is next... Here's a shot of me with Major Thorpe at Cleveland and one with his crew.
  3. Most detailed I've ever seen! Un-freaking-believable!
  4. I had some time today so I retuned the rudder axis to 30 and the brakes to -20. Did a whole bunch of taxi run arounds and touch and goes, what a difference. I do think knowing that others had the same problem and getting everyone's prompt advice got me on the right path. Or taxiway... Thanks all!
  5. Thanks! It is great to be able to have everything bolted down and in the right place. Having a second display and the TM MFDs is the icing on the cake. It took me since Falcon 3.0 to get here and its worth it! The TM Warthog is so much better than my old Cougar, too. What's really funny though is, my kids (in their 30s) and friends play COD all the time. When they saw this they were amazed, but pretty intimidated!
  6. Thanks miguelaco, and all. I just took out the small dead zone and adjusted as per kylania and it could be mental, but it seems better. I'm probably mental and just needed to vent my frustration. Now if I can just get this thing to land under 140 and stop blowing out the tires... LOMAC sure was nothing like this!
  7. Thanks kylania for the curve. And everyone for the suggestions. I've flown Cessnas, so I do know how to use the brakes to get around. But since this doesn't seem to be an issue with most, I suspect my system. These pedals are more like an "on/off" switch, like full on, full off... instead of having any exponential at all. I just touch right and I go full right, then try to correct for left and go full left! Maddening! But they work flawlessly in MSFS. So that's what's making me crazy!
  8. Dead zone, no dead zone... curve, no curve... played with saturation... then probably a hundred tries at different combinations and I'm still in the weeds. I'd blame the pedals but they work flawlessly in MS Flight Simulator. But thanks for the reply!
  9. I sure would appreciate that! Its making me crazy!
  10. I know I saw a few posts about problems with ground handling... can't find em now. I'm running 1.1.0.7 on Windows 7 and using Saitek Combat Pedals. I can't get down the ramps or runway in a straight line. I've check my axes, calibrated, tuned my rudder axis every way imgineable, with no luck. It seems like every rudder movement is exaggerated and over corrected. I push a little left, it goes too far left, I give it a little right, it goes too far right, etc, etc, etc. Tweaking the axis just results in frustration. My control setup (Saitek pedals, tm warthog) works perfectly in MFSX. What am I doing wrong?
  11. I've seen so many great cockpits here and always wanted my own. I chose a different route than most and started building mine based on control layout vs. realism. I tried to use scrap steel I had on hand and spent my cash on the two displays, the TM Warthog and MFDs. I also used Saitek pedals. Now that its done, I had to share!
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