My A-10C home cockpit project

Hello!

I'm Antoine, 19 years old from France. I'm working on an A-10C home cockpit for more than 1 year now.

This project is a challenge but it is also a big dream for me.

I have a Facebook page for my project but I never created a post on the ED forum so let's go!

Here is the actual setup : (ACES II replica; projectors;... are coming soon)

I hope you will like to follow my project :)

Feel free to ask me questions.

See you!

Looks Awesome! :thumbup:

How are you displaying the gauges? Using Helios or some other program?

great looking pit welcome to the form.

Looks great! Wish I could have money/space/dedication for this kind of project.

Btw those panels are made with CNC machining?

Good to have another put builder on here. Quite a contraption you have there.

Welcome onboard!

Nice flight gear! Welcome to the forum.

Boltz

very nice

What are you using to interface your panels to DCS?

Nicely done!

Have you flown with the Oculus Rift DK2? It is as if you are sitting in the cockpit. So awesome.

Dude I don't think he is one of the O.R crowd you just might be able to see if you look close enough on a real LCD he is sitting in a cockpit there for no need for a virtual one.:music_whistling: just sayin

Very nice build you have there SpeedBird. Really beatiful panels. Really nice that you have gotten the two color on the emergency flight panel :thumbup:

Keep us posted on your progress :smilewink:

Cheers

Hans

Wow that is looking very nice indeed!

I'm very interested in your stick extension, care to talk a bit about how you made it? looks like it's made up of sections of pipe, how is the spring in the base holding up to that?

And much envy on your helmet and mask, very nice!

Dude I don't think he is one of the O.R crowd you just might be able to see if you look close enough on a real LCD he is sitting in a cockpit there for no need for a virtual one. :music_whistling: just sayin

...Hmmmm.....don't know about that one deadman. I'm seeing quite a few you tube DCS videos where people are showing how they no longer use that old stuff because the Rift is so much more real and fun. :music_whistling:

.....just sayin'.

Do you really have to try and hijack every thread into a discussion about how marvellous the Oculus Rift is ?

Many of us couldn't care less about that device.

I agree with Extranajero. As great and revolutionary the Oculus Rift may be ... what happens when you need to use the keyboard??? This pit that Speedbird is working on is something i would MUCH RATHER HAVE than an Oculus Rift, hell ... look at the panels i build even. There's a realistic feel in looking around the pit and feeling the buttons and switches too.

This video sums up my reasoning perfectly. there's a number of times where he mentions how great the cockpit looks ... and how if feels like you could just "reach out and touch it" ... well, that's what myself, Speedbird, and others do with our pits and control panels.

I'll take a rift for an arcade style game or FPS, but in a simulator where you have 100+ buttons and switches, nope ... give me a pit any day

Very nice indeed.

I'm turning in a 40 page essay tomorrow (yea, done) so hopefully I'll be able to get back to finishing the wiring for my panels.

Impressive project.

...Hmmmm.....don't know about that one deadman. I'm seeing quite a few you tube DCS videos where people are showing how they no longer use that old stuff because the Rift is so much more real and fun. :music_whistling:

 

 

 

.....just sayin'.

Yes...for you...it can't be that hard to understand that not everyone is crazy about the rift or any VR?

For me the rift wouldn't increase immersion, I need to flick switches and have tactile inputs to feel really immersed.

It's not about the rift being "the new stuff" and triple screens, switched etc are the old stuff...it's two different ways of doing it.

To me the rift is like 3D in movies...it's a gimmick that won't let me enjoy the game more.

Saying he should get a rift with the pit he's working on kinda shows that you haven't grasped what he's doing and is in no way helpfull to what he's going for.

May have been a bit too harsh, but so is saying if you aren't playing DCS with the rift, you aren't playing DCS (from another thread, I know).

Just my 2 cents.

Just goes to show how deep into this hobby we can get, love the flight suit and helmet!

Young man,nice work! All panels are used in CNC processing?

Hello guys!

I really appreciate all of your comments! Thank you.

Sabre-TLA: Yes. I use HELIOS for displaying the main instruments.

_Randolph93: Yes. A friend of mine has build all the panels for me.

[FSF]Ian: I use BBI-32 I/0 cards from Leo Bodnar.

SafetyTurtle: The stick extension is home made with PVC pipes.

About the Occulus Rift my personal point of view is that it's better to have the full cockpit reproduction for real and to interact with all the real switches instead of a virtual display.

Hello guys!

Here are some progress on my home cockpit:

(ACES II ejection seat replica from viperwing.com)

Have a good day!

Very nice! You've got a great start to a mighty project. Please keep us posted!

...Hmmmm.....don't know about that one deadman. I'm seeing quite a few you tube DCS videos where people are showing how they no longer use that old stuff because the Rift is so much more real and fun. :music_whistling:

 

 

 

.....just sayin'.

Yeah right..you have a very nice virtual cockpit but you CAN'T INTERACT with it at all !!

Let's imagine that the resolution problem is solved, I don't see a pair of tracking gloves that will give you the feedback feel of flicking a switch or pushing a button. You could use small vibe motors but given the amount of small switches in a panel the precision for flicking the right one would be a real problem since the sense of depth given by the rift is virtual! lens distorted!!

Definitively the Rift isn't made for serious flight simming