Almost Aviation: Building beautiful flight simulator control panels

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—DON’T USE AMAZON MARKETPLACE: YOU WILL PAY MORE, WAIT LONGER AND GET A USED BOOK!— In 1993, when Microsoft began The usage of the tag ‘as real as it gets’ on its flight simulators it used to be with a degree of artistic licence. Twenty years on, Microsoft has left the party but its legacy remains in Flight Simulator X and its cousin Prepare3D, developed by Lockheed Martin. But at the same time as display technology and sophisticated flight controls make suspension of disbelief ever easier, a wall remains between the bedroom aviator and his virtual cockpit; nothing intrudes more than having to succeed in for the mouse to flip the switches. In the quest for true hardware keep an eye on of their cockpits flight-sim enthusiasts walk an uneasy line between eye-wateringly expensive professional solutions and too-generic consumer units. The alternative is D.I.Y. This guide takes you end-to-end through – and beyond – the construction of scratch-built panels to keep an eye on the FSX GPS and autopilot with no mouse or keyboard required. The usage of not more than basic DIY tools and a modicum of patience You’ll build professional-quality panels to navigate your default or payware aircraft on the GPS500 GPS or, for the more ambitious, on payware systems from Mindstar or Reality-XP. You’ll build a generic autopilot based on the Bendix King KFC 225 to hook into most of your default General Aviation aircraft and plenty of payware add-ons. Based on the experience of developing a scratch-built cockpit from the ground up, this guide features step by step instructions, many photographs and invaluable background information to help you make your cockpit as real as it gets.

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