Hey Gunner, fantastic! Which F-16 sim are you running? Some F4 version?

Both of those pits are pretty much amazing, nut I gotta ask VTB_gunner do all of those gauges and switches work?

Reworked my pit once again, 3rd version now.
It's just getting bigger, but now I´m out of space and it cannot grow any further....until the kids move out that is.

Works well with any sim setup: Stick, wheel or yoke, to get it as generic as possible.

I had a chance to fly in Gunner's pit this past November and it is really incredible. He really put a lot of time and money into it and it certainly shows.

I didn't get to see it with the ICP/HUD/DED though, he was piecing it together in his garage at the time.

The force sensor stick (no movement, only pressure sensitive) was new to me and it was quite a workout to fly formation with it (18 lbs required for full control deflection), it was extremely precise though.

Here´s my pit at the moment!

Here is a link to my pit project. Dudley Simpit. My tastes wander too much to stick with just one type of mode of transportation, as I enjoy props, jets, helos, cars, and mechs! So I am going with a hybrid approach. It has been slow going up to this point, but I seem to have found the time to get going on it. My goal is to have it constructed and flyable by summer, when it get's too friggin' hot to work in the garage on it anymore!

GrizzlyT, if you read this.. where did you find the switch guards on your Misc control panel? I have been looking and the real ones are WAY to expensive...

Thanks to all who post to SimHQ.. you have all been an inspiration to my project, and I'm sure some of you will hear from me as I tackle the many, Many, MANY 'opportunities to overcome adversity' I expect as I go through the build.

Thanks, Dud

I found them at Perihelion Design .
They are copies of old NASA X-plane switch guards. (Mine were the gloss black sets.)

Not too expensive either. I think I only paid $6 a pair + S&H.

Lockon Flaming Cliffs with the VTB F-16 Model.

Thanks GrizzlyT! I'll check into them.
Dud

Wow Gunner! Awesome. You other guys have some good stuff too.

Time to build my new pit now that the divorce is official! LOL.

Jason