They say imitation is the highest form of flattery, right?

Speaking of markings...I came across this document in my searches. (May be helpful for some. Especially if you are planning to partially, or fully, enclose.)
Painting and Marking of Army Aircraft


That would be very cool! Although, short of a sponsorship deal, I think I'll reserve the stickers for the front cabinet. This isn't NASCAR, after all.

You can see a video of the controls in action on my website.

Hey U.R.Z.E - I visited your site - thanks so much for posting the tutorial detailing how to get TouchBuddy to display on a PocketPC. Exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks again!

Vali

~S~

U.R.Z.E, your innovations are really amazing.

Well, here's mine. I built it using plywood and whatever scrap I could recycle. The rudder pedals are made from an old army backpack, the joystick is underneath the seat and it's connected to a hocley stick that was hacked up and bolted to the floor with a door hinge. The wires were extended so I could mount the handle to it. The potentiometers for rudder and throttle were replaced and moved. Rudder pedals activate the potentiometer via bike cables. Seat cushions are foam covered with an old duffle bag material. The switches were working at the time. I used a hacked keyboard circuit and thankfully I didn't fry my machine. It runs from the keyboard for now and I want to get a K matrix board(If that's how you call it). I also need to reinstall the surround sound. There is a speaker in the headrest, the sub sits between the rudder pedals, the front speaker sits on top of the sub and I have 2 tweeters. Total cost came to under $100 and it's a whole lot of fun. PC is a crappy P3 with full capacity RAM for it and a decent video card. It does the job.

The pit in October 2005 with my son in it:


Now

Sweet. I particularly like the RCAF emblem.

^^Thats some awesome stuff there xddorox keep it up! I like how you built your own floor mounted stick and assorted controls even a pic of a girl pinned up lol!

The floor mounted stick is a stroke of genius!! I like it

it looks robust for 0 degress for X and 0 degrees for y...
im curious to how that works for the diagonal slew....
especially max up-left, max up-right, max down-left, and max down-right..

hannibal, the only thing that makes this thing possible to work good is the possibility to calibrate it with XP. If it wasn't for that, it would be pretty crappy. Flatlander, my wife was kind enough to pose for that picture wearing my leather flight jacket. She wasn't going to let just any fluzzy decorate my pit. J.A.K I got that idea from a guy on the web some years ago who built a budget DC3 simpit. Unfortunately I don't have the address anymore. The hockey stick and door hinge was my adaptation of his idea. Glad you guys like it. Thanks for all the great comments. Oh yeah, don't bother asking for a close up of that picture.