Another Black Shark Pit project

guess we can forgive you for using a checklist... ;) Awesome pit!

Outstanding...nothing else to say about it.

Holy shit ! This is georgous ! My wife would kill me, if i try build me such a great pit...

Great work !

HOLY #@!* ! That is awesome! I am truly envious of you :)

So envious. Good job man.

If I keep on looking at posts like this I'm gonna end up reallllllly wanting to build a pit!

Great job looks amazing! :)

Thanks for all your kind words guys. Much appreciated. :)

BaD CrC,

Do you have panel drawings that you used as a template? I got nothing:(

Two, go over to the Helios web site to see my cyclic and collective set-up. It isn't fancy but I am trying to match the KA-50, again without any scale drawings:(

Two, go over to the Helios web site to see my cyclic and collective set-up. It isn't fancy but I am trying to match the KA-50, again without any scale drawings:(

I will be interested to see how you get along with your collective switchbox Froglips because that is the next phase of my project. I know my setup bears no resemblance to a Ka-50 but I would like my switchbox to look as close as possible to the real thing. At the moment the only thing wired up is the hat switch on the cyclic grip.

Pete.

Sweet! Did you build your seat yourself? Looks like a nice cyclic.

Collective is halfway through very tedious wiring process.

I am using an Xkeys matrix board. Looks like you have something different in your seat.

I will try to get more pictures up tonight.

I obtained the seat from a crashed Gazelle and the grip with the upper part of the cyclic stick came from a Westland Wasp I believe. Other than those two things and the pedals I have made the rest myself. The joystick interface is a USB Joystick Controller BU0836X purchased from Leo Bodnar (http://www.leobodnar.com) I can highly recommend it, works very well.

Hi Froglips. You mean the cockpit dimensions and blueprints or the files to print the labels? I think I posted some of them (both for dimensions and labels) but if you tell me what you want, I can probably post them again.

Peter Pilot: very jealous of your gazelle seat. This is a real treasure for a pit builder. Cannot agree more about BU0836X. I am using 11 of them on my pit :-P.

Peter Pilot: very jealous of your gazelle seat. This is a real treasure for a pit builder. Cannot agree more about BU0836X. I am using 11 of them on my pit :-P.

I'd be tempted to swap my seat if I could have half the energy that you have put into your cockpit BaD CrC. I spend ages working on mine and make such slow progress.

BaD CrC, Where did you get sizes of cockpit parts, can you tell me some of them? Please help me, my English is bad and it is too hard for me to search in Englishspeaking forum. And in russian forum everybody says me to look here =(.

Hi Froglips. You mean the cockpit dimensions and blueprints or the files to print the labels? I think I posted some of them (both for dimensions and labels) but if you tell me what you want, I can probably post them again.

 

Peter,

Yes, both. You can either point me to the thread where they are or repost.

 

The collective is done except for the rotor brake/altitude lever and lettering (dry transfer labels on order). Full build description at www.scsimulations.com under Realistic KA 50 cyclic and collective.

 

I have started on the cyclic. I am using a highly modified Saitek Cyborg USB. It has three button and a hat control so no changes up top even though it doesn't look the part. I will add trimmer, hover, and autopilot disengage buttons and wheel brake lever.

 

I have not figured out what to do about the very complex gun/weapon firing trigger set up. I am thinking of opening up the Saitek to get to the internal wiring (four buttons on the base plus shift key are unused) but scared to death I won't be able to get it back together. We'll see if I get that brave.

Dear lord! Why not add an engine, rotors, and some missiles and build a real one for god's sake?

good grief--you could sell that to the department of defense. Stunning home cockpit--

Hi everyone.

Digging up the topic with an update. :)

Thanks to Gadroc help from SC Simulations, I could get rid of my secondary networked PC running BSVP and have Helios running on my main PC only while letting SIOC managing the leds.

This also allowed me to have all my front panel functional with all gauges as well as a working EKRAN.

Eventhough my 2 ATI 5850 have to manage 6 screens at the same time, I am still getting a good 30+ fps on Black Shark. Can't be happier.

Here is a demo video:

And a pic:

So jealous. Just outstanding.

Absolutely stunning..loving your work.

Ti is not possible to watch this video in Germany because of the music you use:doh:

Yes. I saw that in youtube. I used hans zimmer's sound track from "black hawk down" and the only country in the world where it is licensed is in Germany. Sorry about that.

Hey,

Are you using eyefinity bezel correction? If so do you have a fix for the missing radio menu text?

100% kick ass :thumbup:

WOW!!!