Home Flight Simulator Cockpit
Designed and built by Brian Watts
Easy: Any one can make one, as long as you have the room. 6Ft x 7ft wide x 7ft tall.
I have made mine in one end of the conservatory because we have no spare room.
One reasonable computer: Good enough to run flight simulator without a lot of frame loss when all the boxes in fltsim9 settings are set at ¾ or more.
2 gig of memory: The best Nvidia graphics card one can afford, one dual and one triple Head 2Go Matrox graphic splitters and of course three large monitor screens and three small monitor screens. I have used 21” and 14” screens to build it all in. 2 or 3 sheets of grey faced 1/8 plywood, a few odd lengths of 2”x 2” to erect the shelves to carry the monitors in two layers of three.
All you really need to make a cockpit, plus you can fly it whilst building it, this gives a great incentive to carry on.
Switches: LED’s: Autopilot, other bits and pieces one may require, can be added as required at a later date. Continuously adding bits as and when needed creates a great hobby or project.
The photos show a slow progression of build over 3 or 4 years. My idea may not please everyone but it's just presented as a guide for potential cockpit builders
I built two shelves one above the other for the monitors.
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I use an old set of second hand CH pedals and a Sidewinder pro joystick both USB.
About £40 the pair on the net. I used the pedals as they where, But used the joystick bits to make my own yoke and throttle.
