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UFC in place. Credit for the box/knobs goes to Pitbldr (thanks Dave). If it looks like a ratnest, you're spot on. The soldering of switches almost sent me on a oneway ticket to the shrink (might been there and forgotten about all about it though ;-) Backlight connected to Aux Inst control on InterLight quad but no pwm function inplace yet, just on/off.

Very sad to hear about your loss Glider. My deepest condolencies. /Gus

Late but hopefully not to late, Please sign me up for a kit of these four handles (PM Inbound) Gus

Nice, very nice. Stick pedistal looks rock solid. Was that a part of the "kit" or home made ?

Hi Boltz. Good work on your Pit. Looking forward to see your A2DCS.

Hi Anton. Isn't the above creation part of the buidling ? :-) (been scratching here and there for too long myself)

Got a quiz for Huey seat measurements (here in centimeter). Sorry for bad quality pics (note the diff of chair design versus pics posted above) Cheers Gus edit: Angle of floor (vs ground), chair seat and backsrest taken by inclinometer in my iPhone (i.e. regard it as best effort)

Very impressive work overpro. (edit:Just reread your first post I found the answer to my quiz, times getting late here, please disregard my earlier post here). Looking forward to have a possibility to get the CMSP working in my rig ;-) Cheers Gus

I'm in for a copy of the book regardless the cost (allmost ;-) , and pray you find the time and patiance to put it together. It's a huge task to take on counting all the work and administration etc in mind. Nothing like that has been made for any other crafts as far I know. Numbers of copies requested by this forum alone may be limited at start but given time it likely be a classic in a broader area of readers and collectors worldwide (i.e. not only Pit builders) given it provide both a professional look and an insight to details along with the pure Pit building info. Mike Powels books, even if covering a more wide scoop, are allmost impossible to get hold of now. (I luckily got my copies in time) On second thought, make that two copies.. not kidding, wished I made the same choice when ordering Mike's books.. Cheers Gus

Aaaahhh. Thanks DM. Those outer top quads are some of the most undocumented pieces. On the way but not finished with my copies but shows I clearly underestimated the hight of'em. When/if possible, could you you take a pic of the bottomside of em, interested in how the 'linkage to switch' of the pull handles are solved in the SIMPIT setup Cheers Gus

Sincere congrats, awesome find DM ! Looks to be in great shape. Have you had a chance to catch your breath from the journey or are the quads and equip starting to pop into place already :-) ? (I would have some severe difficulty to resist, hehe) Looking forward to upcoming pics Well done ! /Gus

No prob. happy to help. linked the diagram for the throttle, wiring schema of the stick should be in there somewhere hopfully. Should have a high res copy saved somewhere at home, (Ping me back if you can't find it)

Hi, Check http://cougar.flyfoxy.com/circuits.php Wiring on the Cougar handle should be allmost the same

Welcome Ryan. That's a good start

Someone please ? The quiz is how to use the 'gain' value...

Clean and beautiful. Nice work ! (as always :-)

Would be very interesting if you find a way to do this. I'm subscribing to this thread and hope for the best Cheers Gus

hehe, have to admit that there are some days I refuse to sit down (in the pit) :music_whistling:

Hi. Both yes and no currently. I have Helios installed but deactivated currently, all scripts are modified to run with Helios but since I used helios only for visual instrumentation I dectivated it when upgrading to version 2.6 to ease the task for troubleshooting and also to get a bit more fps. I aim for at least the engine instruments to use air-cores but the fallback plan is to use Helios for those. Still stuck on the ILS control frequency input. It works fine when decrement values but I'd prefer to have the setup correct. If I only could deschiffer the 'darn' gain value handling for clickable LUA i'd be a happy nerd :-) SIOC script for VHFs adjusted vs 2.6 and swapped from generating the frequency within SIOC to export the qauds controll settings into the 7 segments displays.

Hi DM. My rig is OpenCockpits boards currently with only exception an Arduino for running the CMSP with gremlins script. Inputs are toggles (2 and 3 pos), rotaries, Gray Encoders and potentimeters. Outputs are 7-Segment boards, LEDs and also relay control for the Mag Switches. One servo only ;-) so far for the Flap indicator. No air-cores implemented yet, started experimenting with an Arduino but no real progress yet. The advantage of Opencockpit boards and SIOC (OC's event driven database) is somewhat low portcost when expanding the system and the rich amount of add-on cards. Buying the bords as kits to solder reduces the cost further. One drawback when interfacing DCS with OC/SIOC is the LUA scripting package that can seem a bit complex.

There some variation between the one we got compared to the one BIGNEWY posted but if you need some more pics or measurement from the Huey we got, just ping me back. Cheers

Sideview photo of pilot and pit as reference http://www.ebay.de/itm/Poster-Leinwandbild-An-A-10C-Thunderbird-pilot-goes-HIGH-G-Productions-/271240061865?pt=Buchstützen&var=&hash=item3f272ae3a9

Some basic info here http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1783838&postcount=7. Check BIGNEWYs buildthread also.

What is the 'gain' value ? Everytime it's involved at an element it gives me headaches :( An example is the ILS (device ID 53) frequency select knobs (module A-10C) MHz wheel looks as this --ILS elements["PTR-ILSCP-PWR"] = { class = {class_type.LEV, class_type.TUMB}, hint = _("ILS Frequency MHz / Power. Right mouse click to cycle power. Rotate mouse wheel to change frequency value"), device = devices.ILS, action = {device_commands.Button_2, device_commands.Button_1}, arg = {248, 247}, arg_value = {0.1, 1}, arg_lim = {{0.0, 0.30}, {0.0, 1.0}}, relative = {false, false}, animated = {true, false}, animation_speed = {0.5,0.0}, gain = {0.1, 1.0} } Sending the serie of 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 to clickabledata gives the indicator flip through 108, 110, 110 to 111 (i.e. skipping '109' and goes directly to '110' in second detent). Reversing the serie as 0.3, 0.2, 0.1 to 0.0 gives the correct results 111, 110, 109 and 108. Have a hunch that gainvalue may be the cause but not sure. Hope anyone can explain what the 'gain' value is and how to handle it ? Cheers Gus

Hehe, you may call it simple but you way ahead of me. How/where sid you found the extract command for the chaffs & flares? Is there a 'complete' list of existing ones ?