IceMaKeR's Cockpit

Hello All,

Here are some pictures of my Cockpit, it's Wip but starts looking good!

The most parts of the front dash have been made by a friend, Dimbug with a laser cutting machine and based on ReactorOne draws!

The MFDS and Engine panel are LCDS the other instruments are rendered by a pico projector.

Except the fuel panel all the front dash is functionnal.

Also the Warning panel is functionnal.

The CDU is a Tactile USB screen that fits exacly the size of the real CDU! I plan to put cutted buttons on top of it to get a more realistic look

All is based on IO Cards except HSI, ADI, Altimeter that are encoders on a Leo bodnar card.

looks like your one of the few who has a laid back stick.

I am after doing that too but like in the pics the heavy stick means the spring in the warthog does not have enough authority :(

Pit looks good, I see more is on the way too

A very nice looking project!

Very nice! you well advanced.

:thumbup:

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Nice :thumbup:

That's great work ... very nice job!

Looks great!

nice

Curious what you do when you want to take your hands off the stick or use autopilot? It looks like the stick want to go full deflection with the weight?

As others have said, really good work so far!

Incredible good looking pit icemaker.

Nice pit icemaker. What are you using for the gear handle?

Curious what you do when you want to take your hands off the stick or use autopilot? It looks like the stick want to go full deflection with the weight?

 

As others have said, really good work so far!

No, the stick can stay in center position without any help he goes full deflection only when he reaches more than the half way.

I put it in this position to take photos of the front dash.

Nice pit icemaker. What are you using for the gear handle?

It's an iron tube i have bent and 3 plexy circles glued together.

Thank you guys..

Here's a video of a "Quick" ramp start to show my new CMSP Falut panel and CDU in action.

The video is a little choppy because i take it witth my phone.

Whooa... Really nice looking CDU and caution panel you have made there, Icemaker :thumbup: High craftsmanship. How have you made the extremely good looking buttons for the CDU and CMSP?

Cheers

Hans

Some News from My A-10C WorkShop.

I'm changing iocards to Arduino (Thanks to overpro, who made this possible!), so i started the full conversion with the front console.

everything is wired on a home made Matrix PCB plugged to an arduino board AT MEGA 2560 with an ethernet shield to receive data directly from DCS via UDP.

I added an SSC32 Board to manage all my console servos (5 for now but i can use up to 32).

i Fixed the Board on one of the Front Console Door for easy maintenance.

I passed through the console cables cleanly

Once every panel is wired up

And finally the front console fully working...

Some esthetic work is to be donne, like eyebrows and T-Handles, but everything is working so i can fly with it!

another thing i created specific metadata for windows to show all my homemade interfaces to show more sexy!

here a little video to demonstrate the operation of the front console fully functional (well OK I have a servo motor that died during the video!)

The correct ramp start procedure is not always followed as it should be but it's just a demo of how works the Cockpit / simulator interface.

Maybe not avaliable yet because is upluading on youtube.

That last video is private.

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Look top notch functionality wise and very neatly done on top of that. Thanks for sharing!

Very nice!

Very impressive pit, Icemaker,

(Love those custommade I/F icons in windows devices 8)

Hey Ice. C'est tres bien. Any chance we can begin putting some of your learnings into the wiki. PCBs, schematics, etc?

Hey Ice. C'est tres bien. Any chance we can begin putting some of your learnings into the wiki. PCBs, schematics, etc?

This! And some arduino sketches for us arduino newbs!

Looks like ill have to get me an ethernet shield! : )

+1

Very nice indeed Icemaker :thumbup: I am having a few UNO's with Ethernet shields but I haven't cracked how to extract the values from the UDP nor sending values back.

Will be monitoring you thread closely.... And subscribed :smilewink:

Cheers

Hans

OK i will make a little tutorial for use ethernet shield and UDP

That would be highly appreciated :thumbup:

Cheers

Hans