Simviation Forum - Portable cockpit

Sep 19^th, 2011 at 9:48am

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Having recently lost my desk to a wife and two small boys who all seem to want to us it when ever I do, assembling my yoke, throttles, nav box etc and then taking it all down seemed to be a never ending story. So I made it portable. Have cockpit will travel so to say Grin

Easily packed away (in a car too or corner of a hotel room Lips Sealed

), no dust problem and no more cables running all over the place. One USB cable out the back, though I still have to get around to a general cable tidy up at the back. Here is the result.

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Reply #1 - Sep 20^th, 2011 at 12:18am

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Nice! What panel is that on top of the yoke?

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Reply #2 - Sep 20^th, 2011 at 12:21am

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That's actually a pretty smart idea... Wink

I like the setup, you just might have inspired me lol.

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Reply #3 - Sep 20^th, 2011 at 1:38am

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Jayhawk Jake wrote on Sep 20^th, 2011 at 12:18am:

Nice! What panel is that on top of the yoke?

It is the MPanel from VRinsight One of the lower range panels, but worth every penny. I did a review about it quite some time back in "hardware", will try to find it and link it.

pfevrier wrote on Sep 20^th, 2011 at 12:21am:

That's actually a pretty smart idea... Wink

I like the setup, you just might have inspired me lol.

I had been thinking about it for some time, I just needed to lose my desk to get myself into gear and put thought into reality.

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Reply #4 - Sep 20^th, 2011 at 1:54am

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Jake, I found my old review of the Panel............./yabb?num=1238110412

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PS, You can now download the same rubbish manual, still not updated Grin

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Reply #5 - Sep 21^st, 2011 at 5:28pm

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expat wrote on Sep 20^th, 2011 at 1:54am:

Jake, I found my old review of the Panel............./yabb?num=1238110412

Matt

PS, You can now download the same rubbish manual, still not updated Grin

Thanks for the info. I really want an AP panel because it's really annoying to have to look away from out the window in the VC and use the mouse to change the AP, but Saitek's is pretty expensive...

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Reply #6 - Sep 21^st, 2011 at 6:45pm

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Jayhawk Jake wrote on Sep 21^st, 2011 at 5:28pm:

expat wrote on Sep 20^th, 2011 at 1:54am:

Jake, I found my old review of the Panel............./yabb?num=1238110412

Matt

PS, You can now download the same rubbish manual, still not updated Grin

Thanks for the info. I really want an AP panel because it's really annoying to have to look away from out the window in the VC and use the mouse to change the AP, but Saitek's is pretty expensive...

I agree that Saitek is expensive (in the USA), but on the whole not much of a price difference compared to CH. Having had both, I personally think that Saitek in the better product. A more stable and solid feel to it. As for the Siatek panels, again a good product, but I don't like to look and feel. The MPanel has one big advantage, it does the job of all three Saitek panels that are a €100 a pop where as the MPanel is €149 and it does everything and takes up less space too.

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Reply #7 - Sep 21^st, 2011 at 8:35pm

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expat wrote on Sep 21^st, 2011 at 6:45pm:

Jayhawk Jake wrote on Sep 21^st, 2011 at 5:28pm:

expat wrote on Sep 20^th, 2011 at 1:54am:

Jake, I found my old review of the Panel............./yabb?num=1238110412

Matt

PS, You can now download the same rubbish manual, still not updated Grin

Thanks for the info. I really want an AP panel because it's really annoying to have to look away from out the window in the VC and use the mouse to change the AP, but Saitek's is pretty expensive...

I agree that Saitek is expensive (in the USA), but on the whole not much of a price difference compared to CH. Having had both, I personally think that Saitek in the better product. A more stable and solid feel to it. As for the Siatek panels, again a good product, but I don't like to look and feel. The MPanel has one big advantage, it does the job of all three Saitek panels that are a €100 a pop where as the MPanel is €149 and it does everything and takes up less space too.

Matt

I'm probably going to get the Saitek Cessna yoke in the coming months to replace my CH yoke...just ordered new parts for the CH (my throttles snapped off years ago).

Can you take some pictures of the autopilot screens on the panel? I want to see what it's like. Like I said, I really only want autopilot for now

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Reply #8 - Sep 21^st, 2011 at 9:11pm

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Jake I can take some pictures for you, but that will take a while, I am at work (installing a business class to an A319 and now having a coffee break)....man how I hate cabin work, give me an engine any day.....
In the mean while, go to this link It is the download page for the complete VR products. If you download the MPanel, it comes with nice colour pictures of all the display windows. The downloaded manual needs to be dragged and dropped into a blank browser window (they don't tell you this)

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Reply #9 - Sep 22^nd, 2011 at 2:34am

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expat wrote on Sep 21^st, 2011 at 9:11pm:

The downloaded manual needs to be dragged and dropped into a blank browser window (they don't tell you this)

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The file is in PDF format. If you rename it to Manual_M.pdf it will open in Adobe Reader.

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Reply #10 - Sep 22^nd, 2011 at 6:25am

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Hagar wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2011 at 2:34am:

expat wrote on Sep 21^st, 2011 at 9:11pm:

The downloaded manual needs to be dragged and dropped into a blank browser window (they don't tell you this)

Matt

The file is in PDF format. If you rename it to Manual_M.pdf it will open in Adobe Reader.

Thank's for that Hagar, Windows 7 when going to the download file properties just shows:

Description.....File..............No poop sherlock Roll Eyes

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