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We have a new web address now! And a new logo!!!!
I guess it’s official. Were moving up the food chain!!! Tell all your friends! Post it on your wall! Make a mural! It has arrived!
simpit
Pedal Pusher
My Homemade Flight controls.
Well the day has come. The Saitek X45 has been completely transformed! It wasn’t easy. I have to say, I don’t know which was harder, building the throttle, or the pedals. The pedals were completely made from the rudder control board in the throttle. It measures about 4 inches by 2.5 inches. That’s not much to work with. The actual slider has only about 3/4 of a inch of movement on each side. I compensated by mounting the board low and using long shafts to the pedal. This worked out perfectly, for size and function. I ended up with about 8 to 10 inches of movement in the pedals. Finally, I finished off the design with flat camo green paint for an authentic AH-6 Littlebird look. This is just the beginning! You won’t believe what’s next!
Worlds 1st (civilian) Arma 3 Helicopter SimPit-Update
Well I’m on my way to the first Arma 3 based simulator. I wanted to use this platform because the military uses a program based on the software’s engine (virtural battlespace 3). It is a very unique engine with still alot of untapped potentional. So here it is. XSHI guages working. And I would like to reach out to the Arma community to ask if someone could update the @mfd mod for the guages. I would like to get all the gauges from the cockpit working. Work was suspended on this mod a year ago for unknown reasons and it is such a leap over all other “games” out there. For me this is what seperates this from a game to a simulation. So if you would like to help, contact me through the about page.
Here is a full map using the Athena mod. The red blotches on the map are points that the server I was on highlighted for enemy activity or objectives. The town names, other vehicles and infantry all imported from the server and updated my map! Very cool.
Notice the blue line. You can draw on the map, make a flight plan, there is an unlimited amout of things you can do with this
Some other highlights, since Arma uses only 1 processor, I have 5 others probably not being used very much. I’m looking into hooking up 6 monitors to my CPU using this:
Supposedly you can use this to hook up a 16x pcie card to a 1x slot. I’m sure it will probably work, but I have always used multiple CPU’s because of the software. Since Arma uses resources differently this may work, but I’m not holding my breath or anything, because that is alot of resolution for 1 pc. So we’ll see soon. I’m also begining on a physical radio for the center console. Stay tuned.
P. S. I wanna thank the 75th RRC for their support and use of their server. You should check them out. They are a unique milsim group and have a nice server to play on. They also are one of the only running the Mission Enhanced Little Bird mod (MELB) on their public server. The same one I am using for this sim. Here is there website:
75rrc.us
Was you born in a Barnes
The Barnes Akers Simpit.
A few years back a couple of gentlemen, by the name of Peter Akers and Michael Barnes, wanted to produce a simple but effective simpit. There design was for the average guy who didn’t have a lot of tools, time or money. Since I don’t have any of those things, I’m sold! Their pit can be assembled and disassembled in a matter of minutes and is adaptable to different heights of people. Little did they know that their design would become the standard to which 90% of the pits built would come from. So if you don’t have a clue how to start, then don’t worry, the planning process has already been done! I’ll tell you what, I’ll even provide a link. Click here!
As I have said in the past, you have to have some knowledge about how to use power tools. If you don’t know how to use power tools, then do not attempt this project.
Sonic Boom Simulations 