So.. Wondering if anyone is going this year? I have heard they’ve organized this for a few years now. Usually in the ‘west’ of the country where ‘everything’ is. Now that it is hosted practically in my backyard, I impulse bought a ticket. I’m wondering if anyone is going or has ever been? Since Moza is a sponsor, just the chance of seeing and maybe even trying the AB6 and AB9 would make it worth the admission. Lots of racing stuff too.
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I might drive down there, if only to share a coffee with a fellow spiker. Checking out a MH9 would be nice too.
What day you going?
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That sounds absolutely lovely. Do let me know if you’d like to come. I have a ticket for saturday but I would go sunday as well if that suited better.
Saturday is fine! Ticket bought, I see you there!
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Absolutely stoked 
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Sadly I cna’t make it- please take lots of pictures! 
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@schurem when are you going? I expect to arrive there some time after 1.
Just got home, was absolutely lovely meeting @schurem. The simfest was enjoyable even though it was admittely predominantly a car show, with then a sim racing event tacked on, which then had a sim flying event tacked on. And this sim flying was pure MSFS.
Their DOF Reality motion platform was beyond amazingly cool. It felt so good with the pimax in VR. It felt especially amazing in roll and pitch as it can hold those positions indefinitely. Really provided some seat of the pants feel to it.
The honeycomb Echo controller. Very cool and very nifty. Just hard to justify unless you really want to sim on the go or something.
The Moza AB9… I want to say I’m dissapointed but I am sure it was just not set up to either communicate with the sim or provide incredibly minute forces. The only thing I could really feel was it working like a stick-shaker close to accelerated stall, and it getting a bit harder to pull beyond 6g. Trimming did not move the default position of the stick but that might just be a feature of that Red Bull stunt plane we could fly with it.
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That was a fun day Played with some cool hardware, and hung out with a fellow mudspiker. In a crowd of thousands, a hundred or so wanted to play simulation games, and about ten came to the flight sim bit, and we two were the ones who’d prefer DCS over MSFS.
Anyway. Here’s some pix of us enjoying some sweet, sweet hardware.
That chair thing really is the dogs’ danglies. I bet if you set it all up just right, it makes things like hovering a chopper, refuelling a jet or sweetly coordinating a turn a doozy. Of course in the expo it was awfully set up, the computer it ran on was a mess and everything was not or badly calibrated. They did not sell many units with that shitshow.
This is me chasing a racing line in the red bull air race game that comes with MSFS2k4. I was horribly bad at it because I couldn’t look into the turn, the stick was too short, the pedals were just for show and I can’t fly for ■■■■.
Here I’m driving a cessna througha very snazzy moza FFB yoke. That thing felt right. The moving chair of course also kicked ass, even if the sims framerate was abysmal and it was all out of whack, making precise flying or landing quite impossible. Guess I’m glad I didn’t have to humiliate myself losing dogfights with it 
So while they utterly failed to sell me on the moza AB9 with that demo, I sure am sold on the idea of it. That yoke there took quite a bit of pull when I had it badly trimmed and was near stall AoA, and I liked that. A lot.
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