This was my pit!

[goonybird]

i built this in late 2001...called it SR-1 [Simrider One]....but dismantled it this past christmas :sad:, to my wife's happiness....[:evils: but i have better plans in mind, hehe..]... i prefer the "generic" approach, since i havent fallen in love with one aircraft type [or maybe the Su-27?]...i want to be able to fly anything, so i let the game graphics be my "cockpit"...in fact i left Falcon in frustration after unsuccessfully trying to get it to accept my Saitek X-36 and CH Pro pedals, and wound up flying helos in MFS 2004 for a long time.

http://www.fighterops.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=238&stc=1&d=1137536378

then i learned about resolution...got a monitor and sold the TV to my sister...
monitor joined by tunnel to a fresnel lense...
http://www.fighterops.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=239&stc=1&d=1137536673

you see that the cockpit is placed within a PVC ring [idea from www.acesim.com].... i planned to have motion using a vacuum system from www.simcraft.com, but never got around to it.....

some shots inside...i originally built it with Falcon in mind, but prepared for other aircraft with the center stick post...

http://www.fighterops.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=240&stc=1&d=1137537135

i added a separate command console to run this from...had in mind extra controls from here when i had a "student" in the cockpit [never came about]....

http://www.fighterops.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=241&stc=1&d=1137537750

[Wipsnake]

hey dude, where do you get the cockpit panels etc. starting to plan a pit I'd like ot find out as much info as i can

[goonybird]

i drew everything out from scratch.... i just sat down thought about what i needed and sketched it...then committed it to graph paper....

[SUBS17]

Nice setup:thumb:

[PWR]

What does the Israeli flag doing on your pit...? :bigsmile:
(Nice setup BTW :thumb:)

[goonybird]

i'm just a humble friend of israel:smile: .....
in fact, the sign hanging from the ceiling behind the sim reads thus:

"this simulator is dedicated to two of the of the best types of pilots in the world --- the naval pilots, because they take it off and put it on a postage stamp everyday, and the israeli pilots, because they simply MUST be."

[PWR]

I appreciate your friendship mate :beer:
And you're damn right, our pilots are good since they MUST be... (:guns::nuke:)

[Flareless]

I'm reading Raid on the Sun (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767914252/qid=1137847323/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-5645161-6519964?n=507846&s=books&v=glance) which is about the attack on Iraq's Tammuz-1 reactor at al Tuwaitha. Good doesn't begin to to describe IAF pilots. Those guys rock!! :beer:

[goonybird]

looks like they might have to "dust off the 'ol play book" soon....:clap:

[IceManHG]

I like the way your pit was fully enclosed. Must have been a cool way to fly. Pity you had to dismantle it.

[goonybird]

NP...saved the desk console... got better plans, and a 1,001 improvements in mind:wink2: ... it's just as well..getting too old to be climbing up and in ...down and out..yeah, and one of those improvements will be an in-cockpit off/on button for the computer! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/OHbluebird/Smilies/dazed011.gif