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Just joined the group & currently building. (Read 1086 times)

May 23^rd, 2004 at 11:30am

Glenn_Weston Offline
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Hi all, I have just registered to this forum as I am a builder down here in Australia.

I have been at it for about 2 years & have been physically building since late last year, after some planning & testing of various things.

My project is MS-Flightsim based, probably Project Magenta or FreeFD, FSbus for the interface & home brew backlit panels.

I am attempting a fighter tandom pit, currently doing stage 1, the front seat, stage 2 will be a rear seat & hopefully when I get there I will finish up with a projector.

Rather than post pictures here I will link you to another forum downunder where we have a bragsheet section to post our progress, have a look around, there are some guys building airliner pits too.

Introduction:
http://www.simhardware.co.nz/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18

Pictures:
http://www.simhardware.co.nz/forums/viewtopic.php?t=33

Anyhow I look forward to discussing all things pit building & glad to help where I can.

Cheers Glenn.

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Reply #1 - May 24^th, 2004 at 5:59am

chuckcrc Offline
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Hi Glen
welcome to the forum. I'm glad to hear from a fellow Aussie sim builder from down under, as I'm in Perth WA. I checked out that site you posted and it looks interesting. Your pics look great . What type of system (Epic, Plasma , Hagstrom etc)are you going to use for interfacing to the PC.
I read that you found an article on modifying rudder pedals to handle toe brakes. Any chance of posting that article or link here as I would like to add toe brakes to my pedals.
Please keep us posted of your progress as the more builders we have discussing their plans, the better for everyone .

all the best
cheers
chuckcrc
p51B simpit

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Reply #2 - May 24^th, 2004 at 8:04am

Glenn_Weston Offline
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Sydney, Australia

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Hi Chuck, Love your P51 pit, looks awesome.

I'm going to use FSBus for the interface to Flightsim, I have self built the boards & are just sitting here ready to go once I have fitted the blank panels ready to be cut out. I have tested the system & it works quite well.

Unfortunately I have lost the link to the ToeBrake mod but I have a copy here in PDF format that I could attach to a post, how do I attach the file to the post, I can't see an option to do so.

Cheers Glenn.

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Reply #3 - May 24^th, 2004 at 9:56am

chuckcrc Offline
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G'day Glen
I new to this forum as well so I don't know how to attach a file. We'll need some advice from the more experienced people on this site to help us please.
What is FSbus , I've never heard of this system.

cheers
chuck

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Reply #4 - May 24^th, 2004 at 11:10am

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WOW!
Nice work Glenn!
Glad to see it coming along!
JBaymore, who is building a pit himself, see links at top of page, should be interested in this!
Keep it up and keep us informed!
Welcome to SimViation!

Dave

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Reply #5 - May 24^th, 2004 at 11:36am

Glenn_Weston Offline
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Sydney, Australia

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Thanks Dave, I have just knocked off assembling the left hand side of the pit, so it is actually starting to look completed now, I will let you know when I have taken some more pictures.

Chuck, FSBus is complete hardware interface system for flightsimulator, it talks to FS via FSUIPC offsets & is offered completely free by Dirk Andersek who is building a simulator himself, I built the boards about the middle of last year to test the system out & see how it works.

I have had a complete Com/Nav radio working right here on the bench complete with digital read out active/Standby freq's, transfer button & tuning knob, it's a blast & I can't wait to start fitting the pit out, that will be the exciting part. It's just a long road trying to get to that stage, but I am not that far off now.

If you would like to know more about FSBus take a look here:

http://www.fsbus.de/e_index.html

Cheers Glenn.

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Reply #6 - May 29^th, 2004 at 10:38am

Glenn_Weston Offline
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I have now posted some more pictures & updates , you will find them on page 2 of the thread at the link below.

http://www.simhardware.co.nz/forums/viewtopic.php?t=33

Glenn.

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Reply #7 - Jul 29^th, 2004 at 8:14am

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Glenn,

A bit of a belated "welcome to the Forum". I have been in Japan for about two months..... and didn't have much access to computers or the forum.

I took a look at the last link that you posted with the pictures....... nice work there !

Keep us posted on your progress. Can't wait to see where it goes.

best,

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

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