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Ordered the Crosswind pedals less than a week ago, and they were in my hands from Croatia to the Pacific NW of the US in under a week. Incredible service and outstanding quality. I really wanted to recognize them again for their service.

It's been said before, but I bears mentioning again. I ordered an F16 side stick a little over a week ago when they came back in stock. I thought that I would have to wait until the official restock to have them start shipping my stick, but within about a week of my order, this fine product arrived. The quality is outstanding, and combined with the base, it's like a night and day difference between what I had been using for the F16. Well done!

Sorry for the lack of details the first time. This was in Lesson 9 Air-Air ACM and HMCS. I'm on open Beta, fully updated with no mods. The lesson is fine through the first two mig encounters, and then the chopper in the valley, but after the anti-ship missile is launched and subsequently shot down, the lesson seems to stop giving any cues or further information.

No matter what I do, after downing the missle headed for the ship in the 3 stage of this training mission, no message follows or any feedback. Whether I hit destroy the missle a few hundred feet from the shore, or a few miles down, nothing happens. I would post a track, but it would only show me flying around waiting for something to happen.

First off, I hope this is the correct forum for posting this. I've been having trouble completing the AIM-9 training mission using ACM and HMCS. Everything is fine until I shoot down the missle heading for the ship. I shoot it down well before it hits the ship but then nothing else happens. Did I miss a step or a cue? Thanks.

I had also never designed a PCB before (first time ever getting one fabbed). Their pricing is a bit confusing because there are a couple of tiers of pricing depending on the features you want. Some require you to buy only one board, and others a couple. I wanted a mask on the top and bottom which put me in a certain category. You can expect to spend 50-100 USD on a under about 11" sq board depending on the features. This is not very forgiving of prototypes that might be wrong, but I found the software so simple to use that I was willing to risk it a bit. You have nothing to lose by downloading the software and playing around a bit. I was amazed by how well the switches fit based on the measurements form the spec sheets. Can't comment on OshPark since I haven't used them before. it would have been nice to create the board in CAD and import it, but I haven't looked into the ExpressPCP software that far yet. Good luck.

There are STL and even STEP files of both halves of the throttle out there. I can't recall where I found them, but it wasn't an extensive search. I printed them out and felt that while they were decent quality prints, they didn't quite match the look of the real thing even though the author claimed they were measured from the real thing.

I recently had a PCB made for 12mm tactile switches for an F-16 ICP. I had tried all the free layout programs and found them cryptic an frustrating. I run CAD for a living, and I can usually manage most interfaces. A colleague at work suggest I try Express PCB. They have a free PCB layout program that I found was extremely intuitive to use. You can place your order directly through the PCB layout program. I think you have to order your first board through them, but you can request the Gerber files and take any subsequent copies to any shop. If you're in the states, which it appears you are, it's worth checking them out. Price wasn't rock bottom but quality and turnaround time were excellent.

This post is worth its weight in gold. Thanks for sharing it. It should save hours of looking and configuring.

At least in the states, Mouser and Digikey and the like are all back-ordered for 1-3 months on any of these sort of switches (as well as potentiometers with momentary push switches. It seems like a number of flight sim peripheral builders all have the same idea at once. The F-16 release seems to be firing up the switch market.

This is impressive. I designed a linear throttle mechanism that used linear slide rails, but I didn't realize that hall effect sensors could sense multiple rotations. I thought that they would only be able to read from 0-360 degrees. This inspires me to change my design--Thank you for sharing your work!

This is looking excellent now. Great work!

This is pretty awesome. I'd love to have the measurements to be able to model my own version up. Great work!

Thanks again. I didn't notice that the dimensions where displayed when I clicked on the models. I also thought that Onshape had gone to a pay-only model these days instead of being free, so I didn't even look into signing up. Even if I can download the files directly, I will still probably remodel them in my CAD software to be able to better modify and assemble them with my other parts. I'm trying to come up with a design that will allow printed handles to lock onto standard switch handles--without glue if possible, but I haven't quite figured that out yet.

Hi Matbog, Based on the images you put here and shared on your Onshape page, I was able to model up my own version of one of the switch handles, but because the Onshape site didn't allow me to get dimension data from the parts you have there, I just used your images as a sketch background to get the proportions correct. When you get time could you please share the dimensions I have indicated on my model. I should then be able to scale all my models correctly. Thanks in advance, Scott