Paar Bilder wie versprochen
 

Hallo,

Wie verprochen sende ich paar Bilder von meinem Cockpit im heutigem Zustand.
Diese Teile (schon mal veröffentlicht in einem provisorischen Zustand) kommen von einem Schrottplatz in England und sind komplett überholt worden. Es sind Yoke und Pedestal von einer "Short 360"

Gruss

Roger

anderes Bild...

Links und rechts vom Quad kommen mal später die COMMs-NAV- usw..

weiter mit der Säule.....
Yoke ist original von der Short 360 und die Säule von Baumarkteile hersgestellt.

paar Details

kleine details........bzw USB Adapter und 100K Pot für das Pitch Control.

Das sieht klasse aus! wow.

We just finished attaching the yoke on our club sim project, it starts to look like an aircraft as well:

http://tigert.gimp.org/vatsim/albums/yoke/aaz.sized.jpg

We have a small "dampener" (like car suspension thing but small, for industrial washing machines, made by Monroe) that resists movement for elevator - it makes a nice and heavy feeling. I am not sure yet if we need to have a centering spring at all.

Next we need to connect the potentiometers and see how the thing works in practice. The feeling is very promising.

(Simkits for gauges, FSBUS for radios and switches, a C150 cockpit section for the "casing" :))

Best,

Tuomas

Hi Tuomas,

I do use Gas-springs since I did not find "cheap" dampeners in that smaller size. I am not satisfaied of the feeling since the first spring cancels the effect of the second one
With my first attempt making a Yoke with column I did use a dampener coming from a fitness device, which give a terrific feeling but is very big.
How did you get yours???

Kind regards

Roger

Hi!

Yea, I had the same problem with the gas springs on my home setup.

The dampener is from an industrial washing machine, a friend is working on a repair/manufacturer company and those are used spares. Still fine for the simulator since they just replace those pre-emptively when the machine is serviced.

You can just use a regular car suspension too - just link it very low on your yoke column so you have a lot of torque on your yoke handle compared to the short & smaller "moment" the dampener has. It doesnt really matter if you use just a part of the movement anyway. By moving the attachment point higher on the yoke column, it becomes heavier. Might be a good thing to have two places for the dampener even with a quick-to-switch fastening so you can fly a light GA plane with the lower setting and a bigger jet with the upper one.

Tuomas

Tuomas,

Do you have a picture of this dampener ??

Regards
Roger

It looks like a car dampener, but it is just half the size.

But I bet a car one would also work if it was just fastened to pretty low, close to the tilting bearings on your yoke.

It doesnt center though, need to think aobut that.

Tuomas