An Open Invitation To the Cockpit Guru's

[Warhog]

Back in January 20, 2011, TigersharkBAS wrote a sticky on panel building. and I would like to thank him so much for his effort. His post caused a huge upsurge in cockpit building. He provided the "How To" information at a basic level that allowed novices, like myself, to build something that, at the time, seemed totally impossible or cost prohibitive to build. Tigershark also explained panel building in terms we novices could not only understand but it allowed us to actually begin building our own panels and hence our own simple cockpits.

 

Here is such an example. I started flying with only a mouse, keyboard and a G13 Game Pad. Anything beyond that was WAY over my head. This is what his thread allowed me to accomplish.

 

 

Which grew into this:

 

 

And that was the beginning of a new relationship with DCS and my A10. I am so grateful for his help.

 

But now another hurtle is before me and I expect a good number of others who are building panels. I am referring to the display portion of panel building. Yes there are plenty of posts in this forum about displays, types, exports of data, Arduino boards etc. But it is either extremely fragmented or beyond my present abilities to extrapolate a means of adding a display. What we desperately need is a basic "How To" add a display to my Tacan panel... my radio panel... my CMSP... (you get the idea) in such terms that would allow a novice to successfully complete a CDU or ILS panel.

 

 

I would like to invite the masters of cockpit building to create a sticky in this forum on Adding Displays to the Tacan, ILS, VHF/UHF Radio's, the CDU panel etc. It would allow so many of us noobies to take our simple builds to the next level which at the moment appears unachievable.

 

Thank you all for taking the time to read this plea for help. I sincerely hope a few of our very talented individuals will share their expertise in such a way that will help us novices reach a new level of immersion. :)

[Devon Custard]

I did write a basic guide for doing that with an arduino and c#. I've rewritten it into a much heftier app which will handle multiple arduino inputs and outputs so that it will scale out to my needs.

[Devon Custard]

As for a sticky then that's up to the moderator to do that

[TigersharkBAS]

I somehow missed this. But Warhog...you are very welcome :-)

[TigersharkBAS]

Also Warhog,.....it seems your wish will come true. My latest venture (partnering with Devon Custard) is this:

http://deadfrogstudios.com/warthogpit/index.php?title=Main_Page

 

Structured knowledge gleaned from the forums. You could say thanks for your learnings by contributing as much as you can.

 

I know DC is planning his Arduino tutorial very soon.

 

I have high hopes for this wiki but it needs everyone to contribute what they can.

[Warhog]

Also Warhog,.....it seems your wish will come true. My latest venture (partnering with Devon Custard) is this:

http://deadfrogstudios.com/warthogpit/index.php?title=Main_Page

 

Structured knowledge gleaned from the forums. You could say thanks for your learnings by contributing as much as you can.

 

I know DC is planning his Arduino tutorial very soon.

 

I have high hopes for this wiki but it needs everyone to contribute what they can.

 

That is so wonderful. Having a resource like this will make a huge difference to so many pilots. We all would like cockpits but it's the know how that prevents many people fom taking cockpit building to its limits.

 

I truly hope others with the knowledge will add to this compendium. I will certainly add what I can.