My Home Cockpit at UK Fleet Air Arm Museum Sunday 28th Aug 16

Hi All,

I am planning to take my helicopter home cockpit crew seat and controls to the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset, UK on Sunday 28th August 2016. The plastic modelling club I belong to, IPMS South Somerset, will be putting on a display in the museum auditorium and I have permission from the museum management to take my sim along as well. It would be great if any ED Forum members were to come along and say hello.

Best wishes,

Pete.

Here's my setup: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=105273

Best wishes to you Pete,

I've always thought that cockpit building and scale modeling are quite similar. We build models we can actually sit in. I bet yours goes over well. Wish I could attend!

Thanks for your good wishes JG14_Smil, hopefully the day will go well both on the modelling front and the sim. A few years ago I took the sim to the Weston Flight Simulator Convention and received lots of positive comments from those that tried it, which was very satisfying.

Your Ka50 cockpit looks wonderful, you make me want to build some more hardware, I have been planning a Ka50 style switch box for my collective lever for ages so I really ought to get on with it.

Pete.

Best of luck and I hope you have a great time. I am too far away to attend but seeing your setup I would love to know more about your collective.:)

Hi Cibit,

Did you have a specific question about my collective? You can see some more info' here:

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=54830

Pete.

Many thanks for that. I will read it in depth when time permits. I have modded an x52 for my collective but I would like something more refined :)

We had a good day at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, our models and my flight sim setup were on display. Lots of folk tried my sim with varying levels of success at hovering the Huey. It was a bit frustrating watching youngsters making a complete disaster of the flying but if they seemed to be enjoying themselves I was happy. A few of the adults who tried DCS World went away saying they were going to download it and give it a go when they got home.

It is a bit of an exaggeration to call my setup a cockpit but my controls work very well and most people were impressed so I was happy.

Regards,

Pete.

Glad you had a good time. I would hate to let anyone have a go with my setup I would be too worried something would break:helpsmilie:

Well done Pete, always great to see DCS being shown to the public at events :)

Cibit, we've got through 3 joysticks now using them at Duxford, kids don't understand pull this gently lol

Well done Pete, always great to see DCS being shown to the public at events :)

 

Cibit, we've got through 3 joysticks now using them at Duxford, kids don't understand pull this gently lol

You need something more robust Chris

;)

haha perfect

Unfortunately I won't be able to come, but best of luck with the event :)

Shame, only just spotted this thread, or I would have paid a visit; oh well, it's been a while, might go along this weekend instead.

Well done Pete, always great to see DCS being shown to the public at events :)

 

Cibit, we've got through 3 joysticks now using them at Duxford, kids don't understand pull this gently lol

You need something more robust Chris

;)

We have the same problem at our museum. We use X52's and the users, mostly kids, are supposed to be supervised by a guide when on the sims. Unfortunately it seems some parents can't read.

Ah, well, we only have to repair them a few times a year.