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Weeb - go with your maths, what's a few degrees ? Edit ( as long as it all fits :D )

I also use an LDC TV, but a pretty old model. It suffers from burn in, I expect the newer models don't have that problem ?

Don't take this the wrong way ( please ! ) - but I can't believe how flimsy and thrown together looking that thing is. They really make them down to a price :(

Great video, and I do like the Tacview. It's interesting to see what was really happening versus what you thought was happening. Looking forward to the next installment....

You are going to have to watch out for undercuts with the printed molds for pewter, but I expect you know that. It's great to see your project finally coming to life...

You can cast metal inside a printed plastic mould ? Or do you mean masters and cores ?

So nothing much exciting happened then ? :lol:

Incredible work, how did you engrave the letters ?

I have one beef with FacetrackNoIr and that is the amount of CPU cycles it uses to re-acquire the users face if it loses track. But then I had a very low spec PC when I tested it...

No, you can have switches, it doesn't have to be a pushbutton. You would write the sketch so that the Arduino sends a command to do whatever you want ( toggle lights as an example ) when it changes position. But before entering the cockpit in DCS you will have to make sure that the switches correspond to where they normally are. Like the landing gear, if you start on the ground then it should be down, in the air up of course. If not the switches will still work, but backwards. I hope you can understand all that and I haven't confused you :D What you are planning to do isn't too difficult, I am not a programmer but I managed it - and if I can do it, anyone can :smilewink:

Would you sell a grip with switches, but without electronics ? If so what is the thread size and pitch of the Warthog connector ?

Arduino as a HID is a really quick way to get what you are looking for.

Well I would assign your buttons on your panel to combat functions. You only need your engine switches ( etc ) once, why not assign your inputs to something which will help you ?

You might want to think about binding some other functions to the panel - ones you might actually use to fight ? Stuff like the radar modes and weapons ? If you don't already have them mapped to a joystick of course...

Is there an 80's Cold War mod ? I see that the Russian ( Soviet ) equipment goes back that far but there isn't much NATO armor available.

5 grand and you don't even get real instruments ?

Yeah I saw that a while back Jimbo. I honestly just don't have the room right now to do it...although I think I have everything needed except the dye. VMFA-Blaze - I'm not sure how I can help with this - did you mean to post somewhere else ? Good luck anyway mate, I hope you get everything working properly

I might just paint a Grach on the back of my bike helmet ( to clarify, I don't wear it when 'flying' - unless I fall off that is :D )

Finished the base, back to the grip now. I am going to modify it to take an adjustable palm rest as per Sokols suggestion...

I'd like one to be honest. Not to wear, but just to have on display. Funnily enough my motorbike helmet is one of the fighter pilot styles ( although I actually bought it because it was the only open face type in the shop that fitted me ) - I am tempted to paint it up as a Soviet helmet with a red star, but I don't fancy spending all my time explaining to people that I'm not a communist, I just like cold war combat aircraft...

Landing the MiG-15 at Groom Lake eh? - bit of a Have Doughnut\Constant Peg moment then :D

No pictures showing LynxDK...

That looks a lot like an Apollo command module rotation controller. Very, very cool.

Well, I am utterly mystified. I now have 30 fps from DCS World under every circumstance, as smooth as hell with adaptive sync at half. If I change the adaptive sync to the same frequency as the monitor, it varies from between 45 to being capped at 60, depending on my height AGL and if I have the TV on or not. It isn't as smooth, but I'm not complaining. I have NO idea how I ended up making this happen, I have just been messing around with various settings in the game options and the NVIDIA control panel. Maybe it's because I set most of the video card options to " application controlled " after reading something about that ?

Well, the shadows turned to low made a big difference. Maybe not enough of one once there are explosions and stuff happening - I'll search out a guide to FPS performance and get tweaking. I didn't realise that DCS World came with a free Mustang trainer as well, nice one ED :D