Home built full F-16 cockpit using BMS 4.32
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I don’t know if any of you have seen this. This isn’t my own video, I just saw this in YouTube about this wonderful home-built cockpit they made. The video is by fredo mailloch. The video is about 15 minutes long.
This is what I translated from the description via Google’s Translate:
“Simulator manufactured in 7 years
To turn on: 1 PC equipped with a single quad-core graphics card, the PC control via 9 screens UGA adapter and a triple head, it is equipped with a UCC to manage a track IR LEDs 5 a Cougar modeled FCC2 buttons controlled by a potentiometer XKEY and managed by a BU0836A”I just thought I’d share it, if no one has yet. I did a quick search and haven’t found any link references to it.
I bet some of you that love Falcon 4.0 BMS so much would love to have this in their home.
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If you like cockpits, check out viperpits.org - they have a pretty good gallery.
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And offcourse FlyingFalcon.org were the Ultimate F16 Simulator is developed. Two forums with plenty of info about building a simulator cockpit.
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Id never heard of flyingfalcon.org before today. Do you have plans for that cockpit available?
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Check it out, the plans will be available soon. It’s a full replica of the real deal. We own a real cockpit and duplicate it
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If you like pits you will find some nice stuff here.
Have fun!!! ://"]http https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?7663-Home-Made-Cockpits-Post-Yours! ://
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If you are interested in building a pit or just want to build what you can afford, start here: http://www.viperpits.org/smf/index.php?action=forum (free to register)
Any manufactured pit for sale is going to cost a fortune, and usually are not fully functional. So do your research and ask questions.
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@JJO:
And offcourse FlyingFalcon.org were the Ultimate F16 Simulator is developed. Two forums with plenty of info about building a simulator cockpit.
Nice!!
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As for me, I couldn’t even begin to afford anything such as that I’ve seen in that video I posted above. Much less try others. So, as for me, I’m stuck with my plain old PC and only in the PC interface. Probably the most I’d ever do is purchase a Thrustmaster, if ever that time comes. As for that space consuming and costly thing above? That’s beyond me, since I don’t have any space anyway to do such a thing.
I only wanted to share the video, since I know there’s bound to be a few insane ones out there to do the same thing. :rolleyes:
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A few haha… yeah, more than a few have been built in the years since falcon 4 came out [emoji14] lots more
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I built a cockpit back in the early 2000s and spent a fortune on it and months and months and years of work. All honesty, (and I am not bashing those that are still doing it) I am much more happy with my HOTAS, Track IR and clickable 3D cockpit. VERY low maintenance and I get to fly more. I found all I was doing was building and not flying.
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yes, cockpit building costs a fortune, also i am a builder and almost don’t fly. BMS is a great addition to the whole project. It’s great (for me as mainly builder) when the switches are connected or the SSC that BMS works without a keyboard. Many years we built wooden cockpits, now we built the real replica in aluminium, all orignal parts should fit, we even reconstruct the cable trees.
Interested ? check www.flyingfalcon.org , also when you don’t built or does not want to, (almost) all panels are explained, see it as the wikipedia for F16 enthousiasts.
Back to BMS (that’s were this forum is meant for) , great jobs are done, we as full cockpit builders are very happy with the software !
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I’m the other way around. Flying comes first but past 3 years I’ve been building and collecting stuff to once build the whole shebang. I find it (purely personal, no problem with people the other way around!) a shame that some have a fully realistic pit but can’t fly it realistically or even fly it at all.
Some pics of my stuff. -
Agreed
there are two breed of pitbuilders
some building a tool to fly, these always fly first
some building a replica object that is not intended to be used.I’m part of the first. some can’t do it.
Either way is fine.Being a perfectionnist automatically place you in the second category
The above is my opinion after 15 years in the pit builder community - with no interruption. Feel free to disagree
Red Dog
Reality if for ppl who can't handle simulation -
Its hard to categorise sometimes. I think I fit a little into both catogories - or will, when I have more than concepts, ideas and prototypes.
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Great topic and certainly agree with Red Dog.
some building a tool to fly, these always fly first
some building a replica object that is not intended to be used.Spent the last 2 years plus building a pedestal (on rollers) to house my Saitek throttles and radio equipment. Spent more time designing and drawing on CAD than actual time flying my simulator. And the projects still going……
Now thanks to this post I’m making measurements for an upfront control panel with MFD’s either side layed out on my desk !Question for Focaldesign.
What size monitor is that LCD and will you still need it when you complete your pit?
Just kidding, but I am interested in the screen size?
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Question for Focaldesign.
What size monitor is that LCD and will you still need it when you complete your pit?
Just kidding, but I am interested in the screen size?
22" in current setup.
Have a wooden center pedestal that will house a 5" for EHSI and a 10.4" for other instruments. Plus another 2 10.4" screens for left & right instrument panels -
This is a question to those that have successfully built a fully running cockpit like the one on the video I posted above.
Has there been anyone out there that has built one with a full 360 degree field of view just by using monitors (a string of monitors that go the whole 360 degrees) all the way around?
If not, is that even a possibility out there for a home builder? Not that I want to make one, just a curiosity if it’s doable.
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I almost have my center pedestal built and I do about 85% of my flying using just that.
If I have to use other switches in the cockpit I have a shortcut to toggle from the
empty cockpit shell to the 3-d cockpit, flick the switch and then go back to the empty
shell again.
The most important thing to me is to keep it flyable (as much as possible) while I build.
The last thing I want to do is finish my dream cockpit and be sick of it by the time I’m
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RD,
The only thing I would disagree with is “Being a perfectionist automatically place you in the second category”. I have seen and followed your pit for years… I think you are part of the first group and a perfectionist!
@Red:
Agreed
there are two breed of pitbuilders
some building a tool to fly, these always fly first
some building a replica object that is not intended to be used.I’m part of the first. some can’t do it.
Either way is fine.Being a perfectionnist automatically place you in the second category
The above is my opinion after 15 years in the pit builder community - with no interruption. Feel free to disagree
