Our very own John Baymore who started this forum dedicated to building the ultimate flying experience, has undertaken an incredible project! At first it was a vision, but after months of hard work and dedication, his dream is starting to take shape.
I have made this a sticky so anybody who comes to this forum can see that with some glue, nails, a bit of imagination and a Big credit card, you too can build your ultimate cockpit!
John moderates this forum and it is only right that we be able to view his progress as he comes closer and closer to sitting in it!
We are looking forward to the  final pictures John sitting in the big chair enjoying this hobby you have taken to the extreme!!

Congrats and best of luck!!

Below are the links to the pictures and the progress! Alto of dedication and hard work!!
Post a comment to tell John what an incredible job he is doing!!


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Dave  ;)

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Oh geeeeeeezzzzzeeeee Dave!  Thanks.... I think  ;).

And the credit card is not that large.

best,

.................john

Wow!  :o

where does all the wood and aluminium come from?

*in awe* god and i thought my brand new custom built PC was sweet....damn u for overdoing me......but in all serious insurpassable.

Has anyone realised, the pictures in John's early posts such as Part 1 have the pictures missing. I guess it's because Pete deleted all the older pics...
Regards,
Ashar :)

Woozy,

Yes... we do realize that.  Someday when I have time to track all the images that are missing..... I will reupload them.  Maybe  ;).

best,

..................john

And how much does this cost?????

Do you have TSA Security screeners at the door of the computer room yet?

wrote on Jan 11^th, 2006 at 3:20pm:

Do you have TSA Security screeners at the door of the computer room yet?

I don't know.  I can't get into my house without a boarding pass.   ;)


best,

.......john

wrote on Jan 11^th, 2006 at 7:14pm:

I don't know.  I can't get into my house without a boarding pass.   ;)

well at least you don't have to be strip searched... or is that a good thing  ;)

so whats the update, any new news to report?

:)Ramos

ramos,

No real news to report at the moment on the simpit.........  too busy with "life" to get any time to do anything right now.  But a lot of thinking about it is going on.... so that helps to resolve problems.   ;)


best,

...................john

wrote on Jan 15^th, 2006 at 5:46am:

ramos, too busy with "life" to get any time to do anything right now.

you and your "life" technology & whatnot... :P

:)Ramos

PS: is life freeware or payware?  ;)

wrote on Jan 16^th, 2006 at 12:02am:

PS: is life freeware or payware?  ;)

Freeware download but the addons are mostly payware. A lot of bugs too. Highly unstable. I'd wait for Life v. 1.03 to come out. :)

wrote on Jan 16^th, 2006 at 12:06am:

I'd wait for Life v. 1.03 to come out. :)

V 1.03 ....... crap... I'm still running 1.02.  When did the upgrade come out?   ;)


best,

..............john

hey John

being in completly awe..... I have to ask how many computers do you have running this.. what is used to link them.. and finally how much blood sweat and hard earned cash have you put into this ???

best

Krazyj

krazyj,

Thanks for the nice comments.

If you follow the entire thread series documenting the construction to this point....... you'll see the BS+T involved  ;).  It is a multi yea- project so far....with at least a year left.  Right now I am in a mode that I don;t have time to do any work on it for a while.

Right now the pit is run by a number of computers.  Thre is of course the main flight sim machine.  Then there is one machine that runs the ND, the phidgets hardware, and Teamspeak, another runs the PFD and some sound stuff.  A third is slated for the dual displays of upper and lower EICAs.  A fourth MAY be added to simulate a stand alone FMC.....we'll see.

All the computers except the primary machine that runs FS are "junkers"..... old machines that are far less than cutting edge.

They are linked via a 100mbit hardwired LAN.



best,

...john

Lookin' real good, J... hope you remembered to put some stout poles under the whole thing, so a bunch of us can come over, pick it up, and do "full motion" for you... ;D

hey john was thinking. it is possible that you'd make all the pages that you wrote about your cockpit into a pdf file with all the pics and wiring diagrams and all in it ??

best

Morten

Morten,

Unfortunately... not likely  ;)


best,

.....john

Man, John, this is unbleievable! It is so good i couldn't keep my chin off the floor! Justa shame i'm 14, and have a cheapo PC and FS2002  >:(!

wrote on Aug 15^th, 2005 at 5:44pm:

Has anyone realised, the pictures in John's early posts such as Part 1 have the pictures missing. I guess it's because Pete deleted all the older pics... Regards, Ashar :)

Asahr and all,

Sorted  ;)

best,

..............john

wrote on Apr 27^th, 2004 at 12:09pm:

Oh geeeeeeezzzzzeeeee Dave!  Thanks.... I think  ;). And the credit card is not that large. best, .................john

lets hope it isnt too big, or it wont fit inside the cash machine slot lol

John, it's been four months since we've seen any new pics...  How's progress coming? *hint, hint*   ;D

Kevin,

Unfortunatly........not much.  Been VERY busy with "real life" stuff.   Work will resume........ just not sure how soon.   Only stuff I've done has been minor... mainly software stuff.

best,

......................john

That is amazing. How did you get all the instruments to appear where they should - such as the airspeed indicator and the such?

I assume you are running FSX?


Tom

drummer_tom wrote on Mar 25^th, 2008 at 2:27pm:

That is amazing. How did you get all the instruments to appear where they should - such as the airspeed indicator and the such? I assume you are running FSX? Tom

Tom,

Thanks.

Go thru all of the postings one by one and in order.... you will see sequentially pretty much how all of it was done by doing that.

The MIP is a wood panel facing in front of two CRT's and one LCD monitor.  The instruments are stand alone gauges (in the pictures so far they are the FreeFD gauges) running on a couple of networked computers.  The wood panel facing has cutouts that are in the correct places... and the gauge program is set up to have them appear behind the cutout holes.

Is that what you are asking?

And I am running fs2004 with a scad of payware environment and scenery add-ons.... FSX is too hard on the framerates for my hardware at this point in time.

best,

.......................john

Hi
just finished reading the series over the last week or so.
Some good ideas from this thanks very much - also inspired me to join up here.

I am about 9 months into my own simpit - a beech baron full cockpit - and when I figure out about uploading pictures to this site I will start my own thread as well.

cheers and keep up the good fight. :)

Towerguy,

Welcome aboard!!!!!  I saw your otehr thread with your pit first and responded in there.

THANKS for joining SImV and sharing your work in this section.  And thanks for the kind words on the threads documenting my build.

We look forward to seeing more from you.

best,

.....................john

tried to load the latest page, but the link just opened the main forum site, any idea why ??

Yeah... I haven't had time yet tyo update all the links to the new server.

I'll get to it eventually.

I was in Japan all summer....so no updates to the pit.

best,

................john

Hey John

explains alot hope you had a good vacation :D

thanks again for the Kuwait international chart info. worked out great :D

Morten

Links fixed.  :)

ShaneG wrote on Sep 6^th, 2009 at 9:04am:

Links fixed.  :)

THANKS! Shane

Hey John, I have not checked up on your simpit threads (or Simviation as a whole!) in years. Glad to see it has been continuing on and that it has turned out to look so nice.
Cheers!
Calvin

I was curious to see how you were comming along but the links divert back to the forums homepage. So,hows it comming along? Any new pics?

Mike

Mike,

Unfortunately life has gotten in the way of any recent progress. 

Work will resume.... just not sure when yet.

best,

...............john

Links fixed.