JSF_Aggie Posted February 18 Posted February 18 Below are some WIP shots of a cockpit my son and I are building. 4 years ago, we build a generic, much simpler setup, that he flew with flat panel display. He flew a mixed reality setup I have at work, and wanted to do MR on his home pit. Our first pit was much wider than real Hornet, so it didn't work well for MR. For the "remodel", my son did all the design work in Fusion 360 and we built it from his plans. He handled all the 3D printed parts as well. I'm doing all the switches and their panels. We took some liberties with the pedestal layout, but dimension-wise, he matched reality around the edges between the virtual out-the-window and the pass-through camera mask. He has the MR mask aligned very well. For the most part, all the remains is for me to do the panels/switches on the sides. He's working on some 3D printed bezels to go on top of the monitor areas we're using for the IEFI, analog gauges, ICAWs, etc. Appreciate any feedback. 2
JSF_Aggie Posted Wednesday at 01:30 AM Author Posted Wednesday at 01:30 AM Other than getting some graphics for the sides and back, I think we're done. 2
sirrah Posted 10 hours ago Posted 10 hours ago Nice project and sounds like a great way to spend time with your son Small question though.. Such a nice setup and all that effort to recreate a Hornet pit; why not trade in the A-10/F-16 grip for a Hornet grip? System specs: i7-8700K @stock speed - GTX 1080TI @ stock speed - AsRock Extreme4 Z370 - 32GB DDR4 @3GHz- 500GB SSD - 2TB nvme - 650W PSU HP Reverb G1 v2 - Saitek Pro pedals - TM Warthog HOTAS - TM F/A-18 Grip - TM Cougar HOTAS (NN-Dan mod) & (throttle standalone mod) - VIRPIL VPC Rotor TCS Plus with ALPHA-L grip - Pointctrl & aux banks <-- must have for VR users!! - Andre's SimShaker Jetpad - Fully adjustable DIY playseat - VA+VAICOM - Realsimulator FSSB-R3 ~ That nuke might not have been the best of ideas, Sir... the enemy is furious ~ GUMMBAH
JSF_Aggie Posted 7 hours ago Author Posted 7 hours ago 3 hours ago, sirrah said: Nice project and sounds like a great way to spend time with your son Small question though.. Such a nice setup and all that effort to recreate a Hornet pit; why not trade in the A-10/F-16 grip for a Hornet grip? Thanks, yeah that was the best part, as he's going off to college in the fall. We purchased the HOTAS prior to the existence of Thrustmaster's Hornet grip. We've talked about swapping, and we still might, but we've gotten used to the functions we've mapped to the extra switches. We did at least mod the grip so that it's mounted with the correct rotation.
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