Thank you for great reply arneh. It's so hard to find anything about switch functions of AH-64D cyclic and collective stick so I even don't know what does CT/HB means.:P

I agree your point. Besides CT/HB, RADIO and ICS are 2 buttons in AH-64A cyclic so I think they are temporatory toggles that will back to center after press. This way I can make them as 4way POV switchs etc, a more easiler way for me. Good news.:)

Any updates on your project Rich?

Hi,

Not at the moment I'm afriad. Hoping to move into the new office/workshop in the next couple of weeks. Also I'm getting married end of July so have got a lot to sort out for that, so haven't got much time for this project at the moment. Any spare time is being put into the Virtual Blade Flight controls and ProStart JetRanger Collective. Away for August but as soon as i'm back I will be hitting this hard to get some progress. Will be putting the CNC Machine in September time and hope to develop from there. So it will be near the end of the year before you will see any more progress.

Rich

It's almost the end of the year ;-) Did you give that 3D printing a chance? Any hopes that it will be finished when Combat Helo comes out?

Cheers,

Wesley

Hi Wes,

Nothing to post on progress picture wise, but I am waiting on a number of quotes coming back for different ways of producing the controls. They might not make the release of the Firing Range (depending on when that is) but should be ready for the main release. Just finishing off the 3d files at the moment. As soon as I get some info back on costings etc.. for production I will let you know.

Cheers

Rich

Hmm are you going with 3D printing? I'll have a look if I could maybe find out if KLM has one of those printers and if someone I know has acces to them...Might save time+money...
Any idea in what price range the HOCAS will be?(don't mind you being off a 100 Euro/Pound/Yen/Dollar ) So I know how much money to put away each month

Well at the moment the 3D printing is going to come out around £300-400 just to get the part printed and delivered to me. That is without any of the switches or the control board or bearings or enclosures etc..etc... I am waiting on a quote for parts for a B206 collective to come back from a company and that will give me a better idea of costs to print the Apache stuff. Their initial estimates were a lot less than what I have been quoted by other companies so far. As a very rough ball park estimate I want to be under the £500 mark for both the Cyclic and Collective together.

Thats the best I can do at the moment.

BR

Rich

Under £500 sounds very good for both the collective and cyclic! Well that's my humble opinion at least...
For the next project the TEDAC grips or the MFD-bezels? ;-)

Hahaha you have read my mind!! Flex has already sent me over drawings of the CPG Grips and just waiting on the dimensions for the MPD screens. So in a word yes, they will be next. We also have designs starting to take shape for the IHADSS.

I can feel a full cockpit coming on!!

Rich

Oh I've got some nice pictures of the IHADSS aswell...I've been thinking about making one myself but I just don't have the technical knowledge I guess, can't get the focus right, and then there's the ratio about what you see on screen, and where the HMD is actually pointing at on the screen, or I just worry too much...
I'll shoot you an email with the IHADSS detail pictures!
I'll need a bigger room to put my computer/cockpit in then...and more iPads as screens!