Hi,
I figure I'm fairly new here, you guys don't know me, yet, why not show my virtual oddball personality?
The guy that created Microprose software I remember seeing he had developed a simulated cockpit maybe madeup of fiberglass or some kind of plastic enclosure. It looked to be just for his use.
Last summer I was to the Boeing flight museum near Seattle and one of their cockpit do-dads actually was a two seater simulator enclosure with seatbelts in the seats and a door to lock a pair of virtual pilots inside and that thing spun around, even upside down. I bet you really could redout in that thing.
One Internet site I came across, this guy purchased a war surplus F4 cockpit parted out off the jet aircraft and hauled it home on a flat bed trailer in his backyard to be converted to a similar scenario.
So, how many here have your own homemade cardboard cockpits?
To a lesser extent I'm thinking of modifying a chair with extended arm rests to house the joystick on one side and throttle on the other side instead of just holding my Saitek AV8R-01 joystick freely in my hands. I figure the next step in the evolution process will be the X52 and maybe rudder pedals in some kind of self contained system. My computer desk setup area is too small as is to mount the joystick on my desk.
How do you guys do it?
Daubie
