vitabutch Posted November 5, 2011 Posted November 5, 2011 Hi everybody, I am new on this forum, but I am a long run homepit builder for a civil planes. Currently my 737 project put on hold since I have no place anymore to put the frame. I decided to make something smaller and looks like A10 would be a perfect match. I will post here my progress if there will be any :) I carefully read all the posts here and on the vipers and made a conclusion that the seat is one of the most important components of the combat pit. I studied a lot of materials around the web about ACES II and was really surprised that most of the people are making the seat from the wood (MDF). To have a fine cut edges of the MDF hand cutting is not an option. So anyway I need to order it from some place like furniture workshop. But why not to build it from sheet metal? Companies that are making a cut of the sheets of MDF/metal/plastic also providing bending and assembly. Lets not discuss the costs here, since cost saving and pit building are incompatible :) Btw I have 2 CNC's at home, but cutting area is small - one is A4 and another is 800x400. But both are too small for this and will be waiting its chance to work on the panels :) I would maybe vote to buy an original seat, but its not an option, since there is no way to import it to Russia, since its a military part :) I have two original seats from 737 and only God knows what nerves and money it cost me :music_whistling: But the very interesting finding - 737 seats made from sheet aluminium. Those are very light and durable at the same time. You may check the cad replica that I created to see that the basic frame structure is very simple. And I found ACES II design even more simpler, since its not adjustable. And I will have a need time to time to move my put and I want to save the weight if there is a chance for it. Enough talking, lets start some practical stuff. Here is the link on the interesting article about ACES II testing. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a446500.pdf Couple of pages down in the pdf you may find a breakdown view of the ACES II. That what I am going to analyse and replicate. Back to my CAD so far...
vitabutch Posted January 8, 2014 Author Posted January 8, 2014 Just a short update on the progress. While my ACESII is still not finished (didn't change much from last summer) I use IPECO airliner seat as a substitute in the pit until ACESII will be ready. Today is the very happy moment when I moved it from the workshop to my flat. Its still far from completion, but I can use it already!
Hansolo Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 Happy building your pit. Looks nice. Couldn't help noticing the angle the ACESII is sitting at... looks more like F-16 position than Hog :music_whistling: Looking forward to seeing progress on the pit :smilewink: Cheers Hans 132nd Virtual Wing homepage & 132nd Virtual Wing YouTube channel My DCS-BIOS sketches & Cockpit Album
vitabutch Posted January 9, 2014 Author Posted January 9, 2014 Happy building your pit. Looks nice. Couldn't help noticing the angle the ACESII is sitting at... looks more like F-16 position than Hog :music_whistling: Looking forward to seeing progress on the pit :smilewink: Cheers Hans Thanks for the cheering Hans! You right, the seat mount angle is from F16 and there is no way to change it. I made couple of tests before finally mounting the seat and figured out that its comfortable only if installed on 30+ degrees. Due to the fixed angle between the seatbase and seatback in AcesII Brena's plans that was made for F16 it cannot be used in 15 degrees configuration as in Hog or F15 for example. So think of changing the angle between the seatpan and seatback if you going to build Brenda's ACESII for any other pit then F16 :smartass:
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