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| In this gallery we take a fun look at our pilots and their flight simulator set-ups. Further submissions would be welcome. Click on each picture to show a large version in a new window. To return to the gallery, simply close the new window. |
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Not so much a sim cockpit as a real boat... This is the Avella, and is captained by member Roger Harris. It's a 34m (112ft) 'Azimut' class motor yacht, with top speed of 25kts, cruise at 18kts. |
A liitle work with a graphics package neatly puts members with their Flight Sim aircraft. | |||
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| As real as it gets? This is Roger Harris's 'office'. Oh for a sim-cockpit like this! |
Not quite a 737NG but it feels gooooood! | Who's that sitting in Peter D's Left hand seat? Why it's none other than antipodean member Dave Humble - See News. | Stephen Banks "in" his Flight1/Dreamfleet Archer, G-BNXY, on the apron at Leeds Bradford. | Tim Arnot with one of his paint jobs the Traumahawk G-CIXA |
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| Peter D's FS set up with two PCs: FS on one and all the ancillaries on the other. A Goflight radio stack is to the right. To the left are the charts and the essential Pooley's for VFR flight. | Peter D's setup, as above but now sporting the new Saitek yoke and throttle. | Pete Allnutt's FS setup with 3 monitors and a projector screen for extra realism. No room for the pilot though, Pete reports! | Tony Driver's FS setup with 3 monitors. FS on one and Teamspeak, Squawkbox, Servinfo etc. on the other two. | David Humbles Setup. Two monitors and the usual CH yoke and pedals |
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| This is John Crockatt's 'cockpit'. John says: "The main computer runs in the top & right hand monitors, and the laptop is connected to the main computer via Wideview (or will be when I get it to work on my new computer) | Here we have David Lidgleys 'work in progress' home cockpit, running on two PC's, one for FS and the other for the gauges which are Project Magenta's GAifr panel, and FSC80. The switches and rotaries are connected to Flight Deck Technologies "Sim Board USB" | Tim Arnot's set up with two PCs (although only one monitor), CH yoke, pedals and throttle quadrant, GoFlight stack, and yes, that's a Garmin 296 sat on top of it! | Gray Bretts "Temporary" G.A. Setup, and below....>>> | |
>>>>....................is Gray Bretts' Large Jet setup. |
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| Gray tells me that he plans to start work on a G.A. version in the future once he convinces his wife. Bet you have a job landing this at Clipgate Gray | ||||
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This is Al Regina's setup. He says, "It is modelled against a C172, which is my preferred airplane. I have done a tiny tiny bit of real flying and wanted the cockpit to feel as real as possible." |
Roger Harris has also been building his own cockpit. It will eventually have home-made analogue gauges, a radio and a basic switch panel. Instruments will include ASI, AI, ALT, Slip Ball, and VSI. The kit comes from OpenCockpits, and comprises a USB Servo card, which allows 6 servos, and a standard Master Card through the parallel port, allowing up to 72 inputs. | |||
| Page updated 30/01/08 | ||||
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