Hey guys,

Im working on a cheap solution for a home cockpit and desperately need some advice, tips and comments. Either place these advice, tips and comments on the "Comments" page of website or on this forum

Hope you guys can help me. I mainly need help with alternative multi-screen set-up BESIDES matrox triplehead2go and some overall tips on wood usage, where to get the cheapest switches, etc.

My Website:

http://web.me.com/nout.vanzon/nouthomecockpit/Welcome.html

Hope you can help!  

Nout

Yep, doing that right now, currently only on page 17 or 37, hehe

Welcome, nout...
Looking at  the progress shown on your site, I can see that you're pretty much past the "scrounge" stage (construction materials, etc)... and electronic items are tougher to get that way. But FWIW, Rule #1 for me, in saving money on my project, has been scrounging (or "gleaning",  "dumpster diving", or good old "trash picking", whatever you want to call it).

As for switches and other parts, I got my stuff from a variety of sources, all found on eBay.

If you'd like more info on "wood usage", be more specific and maybe I can help you . I will tell you that as far as wood fabrication goes, or fabrication in general, if you lack the funds for fancy tools you will still be able to do what you want if you have time and the patience to use that time.

Also, imagination is vital if you are on a budget. Since I started building my "thing", if I'm walking down the street on a bulk trash pickup day, I don't see discarded appliances and furniture- I see simpit parts.
Hardware, knobs, switches, light fixtures, fans, rods, tubes, linkages, panels, etc.

As far as a multi-monitor setup goes, I've already experimented with simply using my video card's second output to run a small monitor displaying an undocked window, and didn't like the performance very much. So ultimately, a second computer will have to be involved.
This is with FS9, mind you... I don't know much about X-Plane. For simply spreading your main view across more than one monitor, you might have success simply using both outputs of a dual-output card, or you may have to bite the bullet and splurge on the TripleHead (which apparently works very well).  Still, that would be less expensive than the average projector (although they are getting smaller and cheaper all the time).

Anyway, good luck, and definitely dig into the archives here... I found it a tremendous help.