Thanks for the info. Looking into bigger displays as well as distance others have from their eyes.

be damned! Stay tuned for pix of my new cockpit! Probably a couple page write up too...

With a couple mods...

Ghost's OBUTTO...







Still a couple tweaks, but almost there...

Good job Ken! I'm going to steal shamelessly from your case mounting idea. That's perfect!

Nice "X" strap to workaround the VESA monitor mounting too.

Still tweaking. I'll post more pix as I can. This has been a very busy week/end.

Wired for sound...

X-530? You're still looking for a way to mount the centre speaker over the screen? What are you going to do with the Hannspree(?) display.

Hi JAMF,



If you mean Former VMFA 531 Grey Ghost, yes I am, 78-82.



Actually sitting on top of the case works pretty well.



I have an older computer that will put it to use.

DOH!

Close, previous version to the X530

Stay tuned, more to follow...

Well here's mine...finally put some paint on it and made a new flight stick that uses Hall sensors. As you can see I fly prop sims only (WW1 & WW2)

My very simple pit with X45 controllers at confortable fixed operating position.
BadBud
www.simflite.com

Just starting to get back into sims and decided to finally build me something that resembles a pit so heres a work in progress. It looks wide well because it is but not to wide for me. I am 6'5" and have a arm span to match so its pretty comfy for me. Not sure what else i can get to add as im trying to keep it simple and use usb devices. I have a 10 port usb that should be here tomorrow that will be mounted on the top back. This is designed to slide on and off the desk as needed. The best i could talk the wife into seeing that she wasnt thrilled at all about an actual pit sitting in the family room

Nice concept there Rat.

Heres an updated pic of my desk pit finished for the most part til i find some more goodies to add to it. Would love to find a landing gear panel with active lights to add to it. To bad Saitek's modules only work with FSX I would love to add a couple of those to it

I suppose it's time for me to join in here ...

This started out as just something to hold my stick & throttle in place, and has infected me. Still very much a work in progress, certainly inspired by all the A-10 stuff coming out right now, but the end goal is a generic pit for flying pretty much anything.



I've now got to start figuring out how to work with SIOC and all that fun stuff!

Feedback (as always) is welcomed!

Hey Feed what are you using for the dispays behind the MFD's? Looks great definitely puts my pit to shame.

Hi Feed,
Congratulations on coming out and admitting your obsession.......

Very nice pit. Are you intending putting panels on the side consoles or just printouts ?

I'm about half way through my own build and have been working with SIOC for a wee while now ( have Master card, USBkeys, USBlcd and USBdisplays cards from Opencockpits). If I can be of any help please email me at andyb(at)uk8(dot)net.

I got a lot of information from Nico Kaan's site ( http://www.lekseecon.nl/sioc.html ) on SIOC. Couldn't understand the Opencockpits user manual at all.

Cheers,

Andy

Does SIOC only work with MS sims?

Nice pits guys!