Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Eagler on April 03, 2002, 01:31:28 PM
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Anyone have theirs setup as they really were?
In the middle instead of to the right or left of the monitor..
(http://www.pogbird.com/t6cockpit.jpg)
If so, any pctures/directions??
tia
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my joystick has suction cups on the bottom of it so i place it between my legs on the dinning chair but after an hour or so i gotta get out that chair is very uncomfortable but kind of gives some more of the real feel i would guess these planes were very uncomfrotable to a pilot after flying long periods of time
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Sorry, don't have a picture.
I have an old wooden bedroom dresser/bureau that I refinished. (The design of the dresser is critical.) When I sit in front of it, the top surface is level with my shoulders. The monitor is slightly above eye level - I have to look slightly up at it.
The dresser has two large doors in the front-center which open outward, revealing a storage area with a shelf. (might have been intended for a typewriter?)I made the shelf into a wooden tray that slides out. The joystick sits on the shelf. My knees and feet go inside.
When I sit at my computer and pull out the tray, it goes right over my lap. The joystick sits on this. The keyboard sits directly ON my lap, halfway under the wooden tray where I can easily input.
Pedals would work great with this arrangement. My legs go under the slide-out tray inside, with my feet resting on the floor of the the compartment. My lower legs fit on either side of a big Klipsch subwoofer. The woofer makes the whole wooden dresser vibrate, and the engine feels like its right there! Pedals would fit nicely down there. I'm happy with my twisty stick though.
All the cableing goes through the back. I lucked out when this old piece from the sixties was given to me. I refinished it with plain old tung oil and wax. It's beautiful. Check out all the Goodwill Stores near you, you might get lucky and find something like this.
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I have a H.O.T.A.S.S stand that someone sent me a few years ago...I believe he was selling them at the time. It is very nice; center mounted joystick and side mounted throttle holders. It's made of wood and the base is a upsidedown "U" shape. Two arms, one in the center and one on the left side, support flat panels that my F-22 and TQS are velcroed to. It is very slick and very stable.
His website no longer seems to work (redirects me to eBay for some reason), so I guess he doesn't sell them anymore.
-Smut
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I have a HOTASS stand with center mounted post for my Joystick and left stand for the Throttle which works fine for me. But if you want to see a real work of art RWYs Page (http://home.midsouth.rr.com/rwysairwar/)
go to the "simulator" link and enjoy.
Anyone seen RWY lately?
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H.O.T.A.S.S. folded up shop a while back. They had a good idea but it needed something else.
I am working on some ideas that are moving their design further along. I have had several people e-mail me after I asked for help telling me what happened bad and good with their stands they bought. Most of them are talking about how they started weakening in the crucial stand joints after about 6 months and they could not get them to tighten up any more.
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Mine is still plenty tight after three years and two moves. Works like a champ.
-Smut