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This is not a fake, I made this picture myself (using a Canon EOS Digital Rebel with an 28mm lens) :) It's Gilze-Rijen airbase, which is situated between Breda and Tilburg, in the south of the Netherlands. There are traffic lights there which turn red when a plane lands or takes off (that's a public road you see on the picture). The An-124 in the picture is still 10 meters above the ground, and about 5 meters above the glide slope. Here you can see other pictures I made that day This is a normal approach :) (this F-16 still has to cross the road in this picture)
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I saw the A-380 at the Le Bourget Airshow in 2005, and i liked the noise it makes. I have also seen the An-124 and even its big sister the An-225 up close, both static and during landing and take-off. This is the best place in the Netherlands to photograph incoming aircraft :) (you can even get hit by them if you stand in the wrong place...) Here is a comparison between the Boeing 747-400, A-380 and An-225, showing that the first two aren't all that big after all :) The B-2 indeed is a something different, I saw one take off at the RIAT some years ago, and when you see it rolling by on the runway, it doesn't look like it's ever going to leave the ground :)
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At the moment we don't know. The only reference I have about stick deflection is the F-15E, where you can move the stick all the way to your knees. We are hoping that Sukhoi takes a Flanker with them to Le Bourget, so we can try and test this.
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Thanks. Although the MiG-29 stick is not the same as the one in the Su-27, it may help us defining some buttons.
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We want to make the stick as realistic as possible, so we intend to make all the buttons that are there IRL. This will give you 5 buttons, one 2-way switch, one 4-way hatswitch and one analog ministick. We're still figuring out what some buttons are for though. Also we don't know if some buttons have double functions, if so, the number of actual buttons may increase.
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Come on, you did a two-week Russian course in 2005, is that all gone already? ;)
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This is my current setup. If you want to see what we're working on at DFDT, have a look at this topic :)
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I'm using one of his designs (mjoy) as a basis for our HOTAS :) I build it myself, so I can change the design if I need to (something which is more difficult with ready made hardware) The gauges are still dummies, but in time, they will actually work.
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I'm not sure, these are F-15Cs, I believe they used F-15Es for Cope India '05.
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Today I received the electronic components for the HOTAS: In a few days I hope to have a working test model, at least I'll have the electronics working by then, and can start thinking on how to do the mechanical part.
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Yes, that's the idea. I plan to build a separate controller for the HOTAS, which will be placed in the box behind the instrument panel. From there wires will go to the throttle, stick and pedals, but these can all be hidden from view. I still have to work out a way to connect them easily to the controller though without too much wires per cable.
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AFAIK the KNAAPO test pilots wear blue flight suits.
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He is the guy who is designing our Flanker grip. At the moment he is having some troubles logging onto this forum. He can't login, but he can't register on the forum also because he already has a frontpage account. When he tries to register on the forum, he is redirected to the frontpage registration form, which doesn't accept his new registration, because there it already exists... Do you happen to have any pictures of the Ka-50 stick? The glimpses I have seen of it make me believe it's almost the same as the Flanker stick, so maybe we can do the Ka-50 too (if it really is the same stick).
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Today I ordered the parts I need to build our customized HOTAS. I expect them by Monday or Tuesday, hope it will work as planned. When ready we will have a fully functional flightstick, dual throttle and rudder pedals, all in one usb game controller. If all goes well, I'll have a working prototype with me at the LLTM.
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Not if you open the canopy ;) But seriously, if you look at pictures of the real instrument panels, and compare them to the one Wasserfall is making, you can see that our panel is looking way too new. Weathering it makes it more realistic.
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What does the text below the image say? My polish isn't that good ;)
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They are not strictly mandatory (at least not for us) but it would be stupid if you didn't use some kind of ear protection. A few years back I was on a platform without ear protection (the band you put over your head had broken off) and 7 F-16s, 3 F-4Fs and 2 MiG-29s create A LOT of noise. I was deaf for about an hour afterwards... I won't be doing that again.
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I think I'll be dropping the keyboard interface after all, and switch to usb instead. I have been doing some research into microcontrollers during the last few days, and I think that's the way to go. Yesterday I found a way to create our own HOTAS, complete with dual throttle and rudder pedals, all using one controller. If I can find enough time this week I'll build a test version. When this works, it will be possible to integrate the entire HOTAS seamlessly into the cockpit. I had a chat with HPO yesterday, and he will be making a small series of Flanker grips for those who are interested. This may take a while though, because he is still designing it (not an easy task without any blueprints) @ xplight: Yes, I have plans to build an HDD, at least some data for it can be exported from Lockon. At the moment I'm concentrating on the input part though, it's easier and less expensive to build than all the gauges, displays, etc :) When I'm done with this part I think I will be ready to build the instruments.
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Joe that's really a beauty of a shot... What's the camera that you used here... ~S~ Blaze I used a Canon EOS 300D with a Sigma 50-500mm lens at about 70 or 80mm. (yes, it was that close :) )
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I have once seen a very nice and original solution: Someone made a concave screen which filled his entire field of view (110 degrees or so) and set up his ingame field of view accordingly. No need for a TrackIR anymore, since he could look around just like in an real cockpit. Maybe we could build that too one day...
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You can bind it to the mouse. Move the mouse to position the box, then left-click to lock (atleast, that's my set-up atm)
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I mostly use pictures I made during airshows, base-visits, etc. Right now I have a Mirage 2000 taxiing right towards me on Kleine Brogel airbase.
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As a matter of fact, there is some kind of HUD only view. Just hit Alt-F1 and your cockpit is gone, except for the HUD. But I don't think I'll be using this function, because it also hides the mirrors etc. So most likely we will be flying with both our hardware cockpit and the ingame virtual cockpit visible, on a single monitor using TrackIR for looking around.