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MiGPit Mk.VII | Cockpit Tour
Videos showing the workings of the MiGPit Mk.VII
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MiGPit | My home cockpit builds
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MiGPit Mk.VII Instruments
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TR160 | Unpacking | Initial inspection | CAD
My first impression of the TR160. Still at the unpacking and inspection phase.
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TR160 Mk4 Flight Simulator | Assembly videos
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TR160 Mk4 Flight Simulator | Reviews
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MiGPit Mk.VI | 2023 | Gallery 1
This setup has served as an Avionics Prototype Platform (APP) for 3 years. Air Manager and Sim Dashboard displays on Android tablets, WINWING Orion HOTAS, WINWING Takeoff and Combat panels, Elgaro Stream Decks, Track IR 3
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MiGPit Mk.VI | 2023 | Gallery 2
This setup has served as an Avionics Prototype Platform (APP) for 3 years. Air Manager and Sim Dashboard displays on Android tablets, WINWING Orion HOTAS, WINWING Takeoff and Combat panels, Elgaro Stream Decks, Track IR 3
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MiGPit Mk.VI | 2023 | Gallery 3
This setup has served as an Avionics Prototype Platform (APP) for 3 years. Air Manager and Sim Dashboard displays on Android tablets, WINWING Orion HOTAS, WINWING Takeoff and Combat panels, Elgaro Stream Decks, Track IR 3
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MiGPit Mk.VI | 2023 | Gallery 4
This setup has served as an Avionics Prototype Platform (APP) for 3 years. Air Manager and Sim Dashboard displays on Android tablets, WINWING Orion HOTAS, WINWING Takeoff and Combat panels, Elgaro Stream Decks, Track IR 3
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MiGPit Mk.VI | 2023 | Gallery 5
This setup has served as an Avionics Prototype Platform (APP) for 3 years. Air Manager and Sim Dashboard displays on Android tablets, WINWING Orion HOTAS, WINWING Takeoff and Combat panels, Elgaro Stream Decks, Track IR 3
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MiGPit Mk.VI | 2023 | Gallery 6
This setup has served as an Avionics Prototype Platform (APP) for 3 years. Air Manager and Sim Dashboard displays on Android tablets, WINWING Orion HOTAS, WINWING Takeoff and Combat panels, Elgaro Stream Decks, Track IR 3
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MiGPit Mk.VI | 2023 | Gallery 7
This setup has served as an Avionics Prototype Platform (APP) for 3 years. Air Manager and Sim Dashboard displays on Android tablets, WINWING Orion HOTAS, WINWING Takeoff and Combat panels, Elgaro Stream Decks, Track IR 3
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WINWING Orion Details | 1
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WINWING Orion Details | 2
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WINWING HOTAS and Panels Review | Part 2: SCRAMBLE checklist
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WINWING HOTAS and Panels Review | Part 2: SCRAMBLE checklist
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WINWING HOTAS and Panels Review | Part 1: COMMS
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WINWING HOTAS and Panels Review | Part 1: COMMS
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WINWING HOTAS and Panels Review | Part 3: VIEWS
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MiGPit F-14B Tomcat
View from the driver's seat in my F-14B cockpit. NOTE: The sound is not too good as my mobile phone was overwhelmed by the sound level. Apologies for that!
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MiGPit F-14B Tomcat
My view as I fly my MiGPit / F-14B variant over Muscat, capital of Oman.
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MiGPit F-117 Stealth Fighter
View from the ejection seat inside my F-117 cockpit on the ramp at Sarajevo.
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MiGPit Mk.VI | 2022
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MiGPit videos featuring Sim Dashboard in action
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Kosovo Border Patrol
These videos shows excerpts from the mission "Kosovo Border Patrol" which is part of 'Europe 3'.
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Kosovo Border Patrol | Gallery
Flying the Deimos MiG-29 on the Kosovo Border Patrol mission.
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MiGPit Mk.VI | MFDs
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MiGPit Mk.VI | Specs
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WINWING HOTAS Orion 2
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MiGPit Mk.VI | MFDs
Overview of my 5 MFDs. This may be useful to someone thinking of going this route with MSFS.
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MiGPit Mk.VI July 2021 | Gallery 1
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MiGPit Mk.VI July 2021 | Gallery 2
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WINWING F/A-18 HOTAS
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HOTAS Warthog by Thrustmaster
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Unboxing my WINWING Combat Ready and Takeoff Panels
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WINWING Take Off Panel
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WINWING Combat Ready Panel
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MiG-Pit Mk.VI: Specs
Specs for the sixth version of the MiGPit. a project that has been running since 1992.
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MiG-Pit Mk.VI: Views
Specs for the sixth version of the MiGPit. a project that has been running since 1992.
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MiGPit 2020: tour in video and images - Oct 10th, 2020
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MiGPit Mk.VI | Gallery 2020
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Lenovo M-10 Tablet
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MiGPit Mk.VI | Standardising the controls across various sims
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MiGPit Mk.VI Maiden Flight
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MiGPit Experimental, 2020
Date: Sunday September 27th, 2020
Locn: MiGBase (Australia's Area 51)
Aircraft: MiGPit experimental
Pilot: P.C.
Added a second MFD and sent P.C. on a test flight.
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HOTAS Warthog
Added to the MiGPit in 2020.
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HOTAS Warthog Product Description
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HOTAS Warthog: Joystick buttons MiGPit Manual  (download)
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HOTAS Warthog: Table of axes
Which.. I found rather confusing, so I made my own.
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HOTAS Warthog: Throttle buttons MiGPit Manual  (download)
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HOTAS Warthog: Throttle buttons
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MiGPit Mk.V
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MiGPit Mk.V
i7 and large screens
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Laptop for the maintenance work.
In 2010 I bought a Lenovo 560 laptop, which has proved to be an amazingly reliable bit of kit, only retired from flight line service in 2020!
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MiGPit Mk.IV
2006 Pentium rigged for silent running.
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MiGPit Mk.III
2004 Pentium 4 for Microsoft Flight Sim 2004.
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HOTAS Cougar by Thrustmaster --/o\-- Cockpit Controller
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HOTAS Cougar Feature list
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HOTAS Cougar Features
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HOTAS Cougar feedback from MiGMan's happy customers
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HOTAS Cougar Paint Care
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HOTAS Cougar Stick Tension
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HOTAS Cougar tension
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HOTAS Cougar: 1mm play
Some people have talked about the 1mm play in the joystick centre position as being a flaw. To my style of flying it's a bonus feature!
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HOTAS Cougar1.02 update
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HOTAS for Beginners
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MiGPit Mk.II
In late 2001 I breathed new life into the Celeron-466 with extra RAM and a new video card, new monitor and a CD R/W. | Celeron, not Cylon.
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MiGPit | 1998: Pentium 233 MMX
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MiGPit | 1992 IBM 486 clone
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MiGPit | 1992 IBM 486 clone
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MiGPit | 1988 Atari STE 1040
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MiGPit Mk.I
I used to fly in my own home-built own cockpit, which shared scale with an F-16 if not much else! It was programmable if you had a day or so to spare!
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Concept art for planned MiGMan cockpit
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MiGPit | 1992: My first IBM PC clone
8Mb RAM and a 15" CRT monitor. This was as good as it could get!
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MiGPit | 1988: The Atari STE, multimedia wonder machine!
Re-reading the specs reminded me that the 1040 was ahead of the pack for a little while with it's 4096 colours and built in midi sound.
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MiGPit | 1982: My first Apple ][
In 1982 the Apple II represented a huge leap forward in personal computing power.
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Bell 407 at Cobar, Australia
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Elgato Stream Deck as a controller for Microsoft Flight Sim 2020
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Goodbye IOS?
App management has gone from iTunes. Batteries that die every couple of years. Expensive hw. Time to migrate to Android.
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Immersion in Flight Simulation | MiGMan's tips
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Pentium 166 retro machine.
I obtained this in 2001 to try and run some of the older DOS sims which just refused to run on my Celeron-466 .
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The Pentium!
Rise of the Pentium. This is the year the Flight Sim Museum was born.
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