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Some advice from the pro's required;) (Read 1536 times)

Dec 1^st, 2007 at 5:15am

pepper_airborne Offline
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Voorhout - The Netherlands

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hey guys, ive had my own cockpit set-up attached too my chair a while back, but the system eventualy failed, here's an example:

http://www.white-line.org/images/cockpit001.jpg

It worked well for a long time, but eventualy the connection too the chair failed, causing the stick and throttle to lean more and more forward. I'm planning on designing a new system, but i would like to have some feedback from you guys, im planning on putting the throttle in the center as if one was flying a jet or chopper. Any suggestions on the prefered method for this?

http://white-line.org/&&;

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Reply #1 - Dec 3^rd, 2007 at 3:03pm

machineman9 Offline
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Nantwich, England

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My mother gave me grief for putting my old saitek between my legs... i soon stopped afterwards Grin

as for it leaning forwards... is that the actual hardware leaning forwards, or the aircraft? my joystick has a left tendency (no, not the gyro in the game) so sometimes i have to re-plug the USB back in to get it sorted

but yeh, it would be quite good to have it centralised, it makes for nicer flying as i found whilst 3kft above a real runway in a real plane when you can rest your arm on your leg so you dont tire so much

« Last Edit: May 16^th, 2008 at 12:17pm by machineman9 »

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Reply #2 - Dec 3^rd, 2007 at 8:54pm

beaky Offline
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I think what you have is fine; just need to beef up the attachment hardware, it looks like.
And I've never heard of a chopper or fighter that has the throttle between the legs... the stick, maybe, but not the throttle.

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Reply #3 - Dec 4^th, 2007 at 12:57pm

pepper_airborne Offline
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Voorhout - The Netherlands

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it is the physical hardware that leans forward deu too the weight of the stick and throttle Grin

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Oh well, maby it works better, having the throttle between the legs eh? Grin

Edit: Il put up a pic of what happend to the structure.

http://white-line.org/&&;

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Reply #4 - Dec 4^th, 2007 at 1:25pm

pepper_airborne Offline
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Voorhout - The Netherlands

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here are the pics:

http://www.white-line.org/images/bend001.jpg

http://www.white-line.org/images/bend002.jpg

http://www.white-line.org/images/bend003.jpg

as you can see the upper hinges are completely bend and stretched, this is/was the weak point of the construction.

http://white-line.org/&&;

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Reply #5 - May 16^th, 2008 at 10:33am

pepper_airborne Offline
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Voorhout - The Netherlands

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Finaly worked out a better system, inspired by the guy that posted video's on SimTV on how to keep the pedals next to the chairs.

the throttle quadrant is still on a temporary position, im going to need to figure a better system out for that one, it will generate more force on the system, it was also the first part that gaveway in my previous system(see above).