hotas support for couch

[fael097]

not much of a cockpit, but here it is

 

so I had made wooden mounts to mount my tm hotas into an office chair, but it ended up too flimsy, wood was heavy, and I mounted it into the steel part of the arm rests, so the sitck was side mounted. it would wobble some times and I'm pretty sure the weight of the throttle+wood was tilting my chair to the left. I also designed poorly the stick mount and it ended up too high, it was like I was holding a wizard scepter. the chair isn't comfortable for flying at all too, so I had to ditch that idea and start again.

 

my living room isn't large, and that's where the computer is so I decided to design (properly) a simple mount that I could fit into the couch so it's more comfortable and won't take too much space. this is what I came up with. in the pics the stick is not centered in the seat, I just misplaced it when taking the pics. it also looks like it's squeezing the seat, but my legs squeeze about the same when I'm sitting, so it fits perfectly when I'm flying. it's a good position for both vr or tv.

 

now I just have to rotate the stick base counter clockwise a bit, and paint the thing black I guess.

 

what you think?

[AdrianK]

Nice job looks great and comfy too.

Do you run rudder pedals too ?

[fael097]

right now I'm using the pedals from a g29 racing wheel as a make shift solution, but I'll probably buy those saitek pedals or something similar eventually

[Gladman]

When I read couch all I could think was "I hope he put in a beer holder". :)

 

Awesome setup man. Good work.

[javelina1]

That is a nice job, very clever!

[okletsgo]

@fael097 This looks fantastic, are you still using it? I do however wonder how you manage with head tracking. Do you only use it for VR?