A-10C Cockpit Reference Images

Awesome images...can´t wait to sit in this pit... God Damn Eagle. Dynamics...you guys are torturing us...:D

I think I've found a discrepancy in some real world photos on the left console just aft of the throttle panel.

See the latest DCS image posted in this thread and the real world image showing the same panel and layout...

DCS:

and real world:

Now the following 2 real world pictures show a different layout, with a new panel in place of the one immediately aft of the throttle panel:

It looks like the new panel extends aft far enough to push the UHF panel back, so its front is no longer flush with the front of the emergency panel next to it. This change in layout might also affect the panels aft of it.

Does anyone know what this mystery panel is? Any comment from ED on which layout will be represented in the final product?

That is the control panel for the new AN/ARC-210 secure voice radio stack. I asked Wags about it and was told this would not be implemented- at least not in the first release. With a cost in the billion range, they are in short supply and are not in every A-10 anyway.

By the way, do these shots look like they have dynamics shadows to anyone else??

Thanks, those will come in handy! :)

Here is a little change that you guys may or may not have spotted. After the Laste and NVG upgrade there was a switch added to the Auxiliary Lighting control Panel.Between the two rotary on the top of the panel there is a locking toggle switch labeled NVIS LTS.I am not positive that it is the same as i have used a three position Locking p type.But hey it worked all the other switch are oiginal from the older panel.

Not sure if anyone has asked this (appologies if it has though) but is this screenshot from the new Flaming Cliffs 2.0?

Where did you get the screenshots from this virtual cockpit from?

Thanks!

Hey Deadman, did you build that Auxiliary Lighting control panel? It's freakin impressive! The backlighting is just awesome! :thumbup:

Have many other panels do you have to show? It'd be a good reference for us. Even the knobs are illuminated. Wow.

It looks like the needle arrow is made of a transparent triangular window, and when the back light is on, the window is illuminated as well, truely awesome.

londo-cat, the screenshot is from the upcoming DCS:A10C which will be released after FC2.0

londo-cat, the screenshot is from the upcoming DCS:A10C which will be released after FC2.0

If it is a screenshot of the upcoming DCS A-10, so I wonder why I cant find respective official ED announcements...

Edited post: The screenshot is from the SimHQ preview: http://www.simhq.com/_air13/air_425a.html

Thanks Deads, hadn't noticed that! It looks like you used the right switch to me, I can't think of a reason any of the positions would be momentary. I think I noticed that the oxygen regulator panel has a new NVIS label to the right of the ON/OFF switch, though I have no idea why... Surely you don't need different oxygen levels when using night vision! :)

Deadman, is that an original panel? If not, great work!

Tbag all my panels are original.

Chibawang the old oxygen regulator panel were just lit with white light as mine is.

I had an original older panel with all the switches minus the NVIS switch. I picked up a box of A-10 things awile ago and there was a new back plate and light panel in it. I just moved the switches from the older panel to the new one. I have most of the panels for the A-10A model and a main instrument panel for that model. I will either make or buy what i don't have but I will not purchase any thing that is just functional I am real trying for an accurate pit witch is possible to do. :thumbup:

So you're saying they just added a NVG label to the new panel to distinguish it from the older, noncompatible ones? Makes sense I guess...

Tbag all my panels are original.

Huh? Where did you get it from?

Thousand of phone calls for some,eBay for a few, contacting other builders ,and seeing what they have,and 5 years of time ,and several thousand dollars. Your best bet to start in Eu would be around USAF bases that have or have had the A-10A stationed there .

The current restriction on selling cockpit parts out side of the U.S. Means if you do find some thing here it is all most impossible to get it shipped to you. Finding parts here is all most impossible for the A-10A or C model.

I try to help out a few guys I know building their own pits, but I rarely give out information on the net do to the fact there is a company that may sell functional panels and parts. That are not accurate, and i see no reason to give a commercial enterprise free information i have had to pay for.

Huh? Where did you get it from?

Thousand of phone calls for some,eBay for a few, contacting other builders ,and seeing what they have,and 5 years of time ,and several thousand dollars. Your best bet to start in Eu would be around USAF bases that have or have had the A-10A stationed there .

 

The current restriction on selling cockpit parts out side of the U.S. Means if you do find some thing here it is all most impossible to get it shipped to you. Finding parts here is all most impossible for the A-10A or C model.

 

I try to help out a few guys I know building their own pits, but I rarely give out information on the net do to the fact there is a company that may sell functional panels and parts. That are not accurate, and i see no reason to give a commercial enterprise free information i have had to pay for.

I understand. Thumbs up on your luck, research, sheer perseverance. Now go build that perfect simpit and show the pictures. It pushes the dream for us all. :thumbup:

Deadman,

I little help. I am in process of "USBfied" (Bu0836) one Suncom SFS Throttle.

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2904142/Suncom_SFS.html#Post2904142

All work OK, but I have a doubt, in left side of left throttle lever are a momentary two way switch - In Suncon the two sides of this switch is wired as only one button.

This switch is one labeled 20 in this picture:

http://img705.imageshack.us/i/sfs2.jpg/

They move front and back.

In original Suncon, if you move this switch lever back this hit button 10 (ie). If you move switch lever front, hit the same button 10.

Make sense, cause move this switch lever to front is not natural (ergonomic). But you know how this switch work (and what do) in real plane, or better, in A-10 - since F-15 in that SFS are based is now retired?

Ty.

Sokol1_Br.

The switch on the real throttle is a three position switch on off on. None of the position is momentary.

On The A-10A throttle the switch is the master exterior light switch and the missile video polarity

you can check page 1-141 of T.O 1A-10A-1for a complete description of the switch and what it controls.

Be advised, that the Bu0836 does not work with 64bit OS and only with luck on 32bit Vista/Win7.

I modded a stick myself, now it's just useful to sit on a desk and settle dust, as there is no driver-update being released for the Bu0836. :mad:

I have a quaution!!!!

The gearpanel is that correct? on the picuture is LGD

Must that have not LDG?

Be advised, that the Bu0836 does not work with 64bit OS and only with luck on 32bit Vista/Win7.

Just "plug-n-play". :thumbup:

Edit - This one is basic version of BU0836 - not A or X, these work OK too.

page 1-141 of T.O 1A-10A-11

Sokol1

Where i find this?

http://sobchak.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/tcto-1a-10-1089-flight-manual.pdf

The landing gear handle is labeled LDG GEAR DOWN under the handle on the light plate.