Show us your sim pit!

a couple of weeks ago, I placed a petition to the management (Mrs murphy) for the possibility of a new larger desk, the old one was about 12 years old and I was starting to hang a lot of flightsim stuff on it, the approval came in and the order for a new slightly larger desk was placed.

A day of disassembly of old desk (and finding 12 years of stuff that had fallen down the back) and assembly of new desk, stick and throttle have been placed, but much 3d printing is needed for mfd’s and virpil panel. But as a welcome side effect of new style desk I can actually use the rudder pedals that I bought about 10 years ago :rofl: (so expect far worse than my normal bad flying until I get used to not using a twist stick :scream:)

Well… set up is now all complete, MFD’s mounted

My god is muscle memory a pain in the butt, after flying DCS since the early days of the black shark I have always used a twist stick for rudders … trying to get my brain ( what little there is left) to un-learn something that is normally controlled with my hand and get my feet in the game is challenging to say the least. So far have crashed several Kiowa rolling over in take off, managed to manhandle a mi24 to the near vicinity of the place I was trying to land, successfully coaxed an a10 into the air turned around and landed (albeit with a popped tyre)

The journey to co-ordination continues :rofl:


was aiming for the middle of the runway :smile:

I’m pondering about building a sim pit, and given how often I gravitate towards helos, a collective would be nice.

I saw this potential solution - take off the handle part of the collective and have an extrusion arm on a lockable hinge for a throttle:

found on yt

I tip my hat at them for building that dome!

Hi Guys

I’m showing this bit of because it turned out so well.

This is a component for my Viggen/Tomcat FFB joystick base. CNCd aluminium designed in Fusion, CNC by PCBway.

Just beautiful!
I want to see it up and running!

The stupid part is that this bit isn’t very visable.

But you know it’s there!
And we do too… :wink:

Indeed we will know in our hearts.

Sexy AF!

Remember kids, it’s not enough to plan to order all the bits. You actually have to do it too.

Anyway, here is a screenshot from a video in situ with the counter weight mounted.