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Hardware Gallery


Cockpits - homebuilt
Cockpits on location
Cockpit manufacturers
Computers
Control
Display
3D glasses and Head Tracking
Sound and Vibration
Links

    
 

Cockpits - homebuilt

The home built cockpit ranges from just a support for your joystick and throttle up to full-motion cockpits that rival commercial training units in their complexity.

F-16 by Peter Hausamann

If you're thinking about building your own, look at these articles on how to build a cockpit.

Cockpits from real aircraft are shown in Aircraft in Action


  Home Built Cockpits

Bill O'Riordan's full motion cockpit
F-16 cockpit scale model F/A-18 by Mackenzie
F/A-18 by Matt Wietlpach Mark Schimmer's Westland Sikorsky controls
MiGMan's Cockpit Gallery MiGMan's Cockpit Gallery
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Cockpits on location

This index looks at commercial, military and academic simulator cockpits which are sometimes accessible to the general public - Cockpits - Locations 		  BCC GUMP - full motion B-727, B-757, B-747-400, B-747-200, DC-9, DC-10 simulators.

BCC GUMP - full motion B-727, B-757, B-747-400, B-747-200, DC-9, DC-10 simulators.
 

Cockpit manufacturers

This index looks at companies who make components to serve the home - cockpit builder and professional training organisation.

Go to the index of cockpit manufacturers 		  Aimsworth manufactures the Viper 1 - a realistic F-16 cockpit and accessories.

Real Cockpit make realistic civil aviation sim components.

Real Simulator - F-16 cockpits for the home user.

Viper-Pits
 
Computers

The MiG - Puters
The PC era Applying Windows patches 		  Atari ST

Pentium-4 - 3 GHz - rigged for silent running

MiGMan's MiG-puter flight sim test gear

 
Controllers

Hardware 101 - Setting up your sticks

How to setup your controller in Windows

USB power management
USB power management

Here are my tips on setting up your throttle and joystick for basic combat flying - Basic Controls in Air Combat Sims

Flying on your laptop

Rudder pedals
Bob Church's Rudder fix
Microsoft Game Voice
Gravis
Saitek
Sidewinder
Thrustmaster
Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical
Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer

SlickSteel S1 Stainless Steel Mouse Pad from www.simshack.net - The Flight Sim Museum Hardware Gallery
SlickSteel S1 Stainless Steel Mouse Pad

Cockpit Collection

Voice Buddy

Voice control - Game Commander

  Saitek in the Hardware Gallery Gravis Game Pad - Fly on your laptop ! Click to read about the Thrustmaster Flight Sim controllers Click to read about the Thrustmaster Flight Sim controllers Click to read about the Thrustmaster Flight Sim controllers Click to read about the Thrustmaster Flight Sim controllers Click to read about the Thrustmaster Flight Sim controllers
Top Gun Afterburner II Strategic Commander
Sidewinder Precision 2 Sidewinder Force Feedback 2

Voice Buddy
 
Display

The MiG - cards :

16 K colour card for the Apple 2
On board colour graphics in the Atari ST
S3 1 MEG SVGA in the 486 PC
Banshee - The Banshee used 3DFX chipsets.
GeForce 2MX
Geforce 3
ATI Radeon 9600 XT

Multi monitors
Monitors
graphics card manufacturers

Bugeye Tech - 3 window Flight Simulator suitable display system

  Multi Monitors in Flight Sims Multi Monitors in Flight Sims

Multi Monitors in Flight Sims Multi Monitors in Flight Sims

Hercules 3D Prophet III Titanium 500
 
3D Glasses and Head Tracking

Track IR

  Track IR

Track IR
 
Sound and Vibration

Aura Interactor
Body Shakers
A debug applet for Direct X 8 Nexcient Game Seat

Links to sound sites

  Body Shakers

Aura Interactor
 
Links

Hardware Links 		   


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