Mr_Burns Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 Hey guys, I was blessed with 2 left hands so the craftsmanship is way off some of the stuff on here. I have been working on a Eurofighter Typhoon Cockpit, like other I dont have access to any CNC / 3D printer. I love the Typhoon having been involved in the programme during Development, Flight Test, Instrumented Production Aircraft and the early integration into service. I am not an Enginner as you will see by my amateur (but useable cockpit). The first issue I came across was the thyphoon square buttons, at leasw with round buttons you can use a drill! I have since come up with another dubious solution to this and I may post another panel later. I really did this a bit back to front and so most of the build I was trying to solve issues I created by my build process (or lack of it!). First I can up with a mock up: I designed it on Sketch Up and based it around the buttons bein 150mm - yes that was the basis for my measurements. I changed the Left Hand Glaresheild Lower (Manual Data Entry Panel or MDEP) to incorporate a 4" screen and took some artistic licence to incorporate buttons at the top, my idea was so it can be used for different sims, at the moment I am using it as the UFC on the A-10) You can see there my first manual attempt at cutting square holes. I did contact a member on here who thankfully cut the sketchup files for me and sent 5 very nice replicas of the above designs. My thinking being I could hide my work behind some well cut panels. Im not naming him but thank you very much! I wanted to show photos of these when they arrive but the wife deleted my camera!! So the first panel I did was the MDEP: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Burns Posted May 19, 2013 Author Share Posted May 19, 2013 I made a little 4 way switch for the UFC - i dont know the EFA functionality so it was a way to add 4 buttons on the joystick board: A bolt and 4 microswitches from a mouse. Some plastic squares glued together with a rubber grommet: Lots of superglue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Burns Posted May 19, 2013 Author Share Posted May 19, 2013 I made 2 of these eventually and capped them with waterproof switch covers as you can see above. The other is where the pot (as seen above) was, i realised after putting a pot there the GGG board would allow me to use it as an axis. The mini 'joystick' switch I use for trim on the a-10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Burns Posted May 19, 2013 Author Share Posted May 19, 2013 Next I made the RHGS Upper panel. The EFA buttons have little screens on them and are multiple choice, as I can do that I made the 'buttons' on power point and laminated them, each on can have 2 selections with the pinky multiplier. I labeled each action top and bottom for the two uses. As mentioned until the EFA comes out I am using this for A-10 so the switches are for the LASTE, AHCP and some of the other buttons: I know it isnt the tidies job but its OK for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Burns Posted May 19, 2013 Author Share Posted May 19, 2013 The LHGS: Here you can see the nice panels friendly form user cut for me sat on top of my boxes: And more (the HUD) I made a box for the screen: It was going to stand like that on the desk, I dont have much room and I use the computer for other things so the plan was to have it all attached to this screen: It didnt really work out as the desk sat two high and it was heavy so I made in into a trolley version on caster wheels: Still needs painting but I wanted to play for a bit: With Helios And with A-10: I messed up the little screen during production so will need to fix it, at the moment I use the middle screen as the CDU screen and input through the UFC: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Burns Posted May 19, 2013 Author Share Posted May 19, 2013 Need to finish the HUD and the LHGS lower needs the front door put on it. I am also starting to consider making a proper Head up display. The main issue with this is that you still need to look at the cockpit as there is no feedback as to switch positions, I am please with the MDEP (even though the screen broke). The other I came up with after is I dont actually need square holes, with my switch solution (Laminates buttons superglued to tactile switches), I could have drilled holes the size of the tactile button and hid all beneath the 150mm laminate. I have got a side panel in progress for the typhoon, at the moment its a beer table while I do a bit of flying! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feuerfalke Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 Very nice work! Well done! :thumbup: Gigabyte GA-Z87-UD3H | i7 4470k @ 4.5 GHz | 16 GB DDR3 @ 2.133 Ghz | GTX 1080 | LG 55" @ 4K | Cougar 1000 W | Creative X-Fi Ti | TIR5 | CH HOTAS (with BU0836X-12 Bit) + Crosswind Pedals | Win10 64 HP | X-Keys Pro 20 & Pro 54 | 2x TM MFD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hansolo Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 +1 Look very good :thumbup: Keep up the good work 132nd Virtual Wing homepage & 132nd Virtual Wing YouTube channel My DCS-BIOS sketches & Cockpit Album Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ells228 Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Looking really good mate!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted June 14, 2013 ED Team Share Posted June 14, 2013 Great work I like seeing a pit that is flexible :) Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, HP Reverb G2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swaty Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Nice one!:thumbup: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] My Pit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upupandaway Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Hey, three displays in the A-10C is cheating. :thumbup: Nice work! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Deedle, deedle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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