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Just the render window setting in MSFS. It’s under the experimental tab in the general options settings.

@@skytation but is it possible to put fixed cameras? that is, being able to put a camera as a side pilot window and make it fixed and independent of the main screen

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Ah, the magic loaded question 😂 You're going to get a different answer from anyone you ask. I can simply give you my experience with what I've used which ranges from Creality, to Anycubic, to (my suggestion) Bambu Labs. Anything I print and ship is done in PETG filament, I simply didn't want to deal with the possibility of parts softening during shipping since PLA filament has a lower softening temperature than other filaments like PETG. However, if you're print this at home, I 100% recommend PLA filament with a Bambu Labs printer. It will be so simple for you it's not even funny. That's the name of the game with Bambu... quality and simplicity. Now granted, you pay for that, so there is the caveat haha. So yeah, I recommend starting with them and if they're in your budget, go with that. If the price is too high, take a look at Anycubic, Creality, Elegoo, and any of those types of printers. Many people swear by them, especially if you incorporate some of the popular mods for them. I do know Bambu is running a black friday sale now through Dec 3rd, and you can get the best deals you're going to see on their printers. Which model you choose is fully up to you, I use the P1S because I wanted the enclosure, but didn't need all the extras and features that came along with the more expensive X1C (although it is a pretty great value for what it is and what it can do). The A1 is also a great option, and a LOT of people love it. It has the same build size as the P1S, but doesn't have the enclosure and it actually a traditional "bed slinger" style printer. The P1P, P1S, and X1C are all core XY printers meaning the bed moves up and down to control the z axis, rather than the print head like on the A1. Both have their benefits and drawbacks, just sort of becomes personal preference. But if you'll only ever print PLA, the A1 is a great value.

One other note, I highly recommend a printer with a build volume of at least 250x250x250mm. These parts were designed to fit on a printer that size (or larger) and be in the proper orientation. If you have a smaller sized printer you'll either not be able to print the parts, or you may need to orient them differently which could lead to some hassle. Just wanted to throw that in there.

Yeah, probably won't do that with this one, it would introduce a whole lot more force given that extra length and would require some pretty robust (aka not plastic) parts. Still very doable, but would drive the cost way up. Never say never, though!

Damn right.

That's a great idea, and is a perfect example of how making the print files for this yoke open to public will help solve. People mod everything, that's a proven fact. I understand people will mod this thing to death, and in most cases that will only make it better. The fact that the frame rails are extrusion makes it possible for people to design and add all sort of attachments or whatever they'd like to it, and your example with adding a Tobii to the back frame is great. With the print files for that back frame being public, someone could easily use that to get the exact dimensions they need to model up some sort of holder like you've talked about. I've heard from others who said they're already thinking about how they can design something to hold a button box or screens that can attach to the top frame railing. If people do that, and then share those designs with the community, it's only going to make this thing more attractive to other simmers who may be looking for more in a yoke. I'm really hoping the same thing holds true with my idea for a handles "marketplace" where we could REALLY get an entire ecosystem of all sorts of handles, both in design and finish, and really give simmers a ton of options when it comes to their yoke. A yoke has always been a one trick pony when it comes to flight sim hardware, whatever you buy is what you're stuck with in both design and function... I'm trying to break that mold with the Aviator.🤘

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Yes sir! Yeah I can't wait to see it either.... but that means I gotta start it first 🤣

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Well so in regards to the 5 wires, it has to be 5. That’s what is required to get the signals from the shift registers in the handles to the main board in the base unit. I did look at some of the magnetic options, but I went with pogos because I liked the idea that once they make contact they also have 1-1.5mm of tip depression in the spring loaded end. That made me feel very confident that when the handle slides on and bumps up against the shaft collar everything didn’t have to be perfectly precise within tenths of millimeters to ensure constant contact. As we all know 3D printing isn’t guaranteed precision down to that level, so going with pogos gave me that extra bit of wiggle room there so it would never be an issue 🤘

And yeah, 3D printing and tiny gears often don’t mesh 😂 I mean depending on how tiny you’re talking you could probably try resin printing. I don’t know how strong the gears need to be or if you think a resin print would eventually wear out on them.

@@skytation Yeah cool, the tolerance you get from the pogos is definitely a win. And yeah, I guess to get it to be just an i2c interface you'd have to put a microcontroller in the yoke and having an extra thing to program increases build time, so I see why you went with the shift register instead.

Yeah, I had someone else mention this a few days ago. In my mind it would throw off the calibrated center point, but you’re saying it would just be something you could make the adjustment to when flying, but then always be able to return it back to the calibrated center? I mean I think for most people they’d just do that with the sim pitch trim, but you’re saying having it actually be something that moves the yoke gantry (whether a mechanical pitch wheel or whatever) and basically just bypassing the sim pitch trim functions?

​@@skytationI'm completely bypassing in-sim trim. This creates the issues when flying with autopilot. But I fly VFR manually only, so I benefit from the real GA plane-like behavior of the yoke. In the real small airplane (with no hydraulics) there is no such thing as a "centre" yoke pitch position. The yoke neutral pressure is dictated by aerodynamic forces on the elevator, so the yoke no-control-pressure-from-the-pilot changes with the airspeed. So you can trim by feel:. 1. The pilot applies the control pressure to the yoke to achieve the desired airspeed. 2. The pilot operates the trim as long as necessary to zero the control pressure. 3. The pilot can take his hands off the yoke (assuming the air is smooth) and the yoke will stay in a given position.

Nope, pitch and roll resistance via bungees that are easily adjustable to change tension.

@ may I ask, what’s the point? There are plenty of yokes on the market, why don’t you incorporate force feed back

@@RE-zz7tr You expect force feedback for $299+ 99 for a handle? Maybe in 8 years or so if competition grows. There is a reason FFB is several hundred just for entry level stuff. Point is, maybe this works out for him as honeycomb is an uncertainty and the only other modular one I see is the upcoming virpil. Best of luck to this guy for doing it.

The other guy beat me to the response 😂 I mean it’s basically what he said, assuming I even had the know how to do force feedback, it would’ve made the price significantly higher, and in my opinion the last thing this hobby needs is another $1000 yoke. I really hope some of these companies can get the price of quality force feedback systems down, but I don’t have the knowledge to comment on whether that’s even possible. All I know is I tried to create a yoke that based on the price would offer equitable value for the simmer in return, that was my goal.

I know, I built that sim pit and made lots of vids/streams from it, then took it apart to move it to a new room in the basement and was going to rebuild it even better. However, this yoke idea came up and I've spent the last year on it now. When things settle down I'll work on a new pit and get back to creating more content around it. I do miss it for sure!

I definitely plan to, I just want to make sure I get all the shipping costs/fees/etc all figured out before I offer it, I've never shipped anything internationally before so I just want to make sure I do it right and quote things correctly.

@ no worries…good things will come to those with patience. Wishing you all the best with this endeavor. I will be lurking on the discord for any updates 😉

Thanks dude. One day I'll get back to the home cockpit stuff.

Welcome aboard!

Thanks! Tell me more about your tape idea to smooth out the surface. I actually added a texture to the outside of the handles to help eliminate that typical 3D printed look because I didn't think people would like that, but if you'd rather have one without the texture let me know and I can print it smooth. Or maybe you were talking about something else?

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That ugly upside down W handle??? haha, yeah you're probably not the only one, and I do have it on the list albeit a bit further down :) Yeah, there is a citation style handle in the works, but trying to get the 737 style out first since I know people love their airliners. If you like that TCA Boeing yoke, you may like what is coming on the horizon... 😏

Thanks dude! Yep, a citation handle is in the works, will hopefully be coming soon!

Thanks for the feedback! Sounds like you have a nice custom panel. One thing I'll mention, once I get into a flow with producing and fulfilling these batch orders I'm doing, I am considering opening up a "custom" service as well. So using your example about it just not quite being the right size for your panel, well maybe I could design you a custom yoke that would fit based on your required specs. I'll communicate more about that if I decide to start offering custom services, but you aren't the first person that has told me a custom solution would work best for them, so I want to try and fill that gap as well.

Haha nice! You'd qualify for the free shipping/pickup option! 🤣 In response to your idea about extensions and stuff, I completely agree. As a guy who build his own home cockpit (which is what spurred the idea for this project) it's tough to find commercially available stuff that works for custom needs. In my first pit I had to extend the shafts on the honeycomb yokes to allow them to work for my purposes. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to try and make these types of solutions that will work for every person's need. Your idea of an extension for people who want to put it in behind their dash, I could easily do that. Lets say I offer a 12" long shaft option, well then there's inevitably going to be a guy who says "man I wish it was 14" so it would work in my pit!" Believe me when I say I tried to make this a "one size fits all" as best as I could, but I know there will definitely be people who wish I had done things just a bit differently here or there to make it work for them. As of right now, I don't have a solution for that. HOWEVER, once this gets off the ground and I'm in a groove with it, I do fully intend to begin offering "custom cockpit solution" services. Ever since that first cockpit video I posted over a year ago (almost two year now, sheesh time flies) I have had people reach out asking if I'd build them their own custom pit. Unfortunately due to time and other constraints I've always had to say no, however with the knowledge and skills I've gained going through that first cockpit build, and now this yoke design and build, I feel like I'm in a position where I could offer those custom services on a one off basis. And so your ideas above for those different instances, I think what I would do in those cases is offer people a custom solution so I'm just not turning them away and saying no. That being said, I'll be a little busy probably through the end of this year trying to get this yoke launched and going, but if you need assistance with any custom solutions in your next sim pit build I'd love to offer my services! Thanks for watching and for the great feedback, I really appreciate it!

Thanks, great to hear from you!

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@@buckrodgers770 yeah it took a WHILE to get everything dialed in to that point. But well worth it, love the feel of it.

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Yep, check out my pinned comment I made shortly after posting the short and realizing I said "180 degrees of pitch travel" instead of 180mm. I didn't say in the video "360 degrees of motion", I just made up a cheesy term called "360 total travel" when I realized that its motion was 90 in every direction.... 90 degrees roll left, 90 degrees roll right, 90mm pitch up, 90mm pitch down.... all of course adding up to 360. Don't worry, it's a term that won't stick I'm sure of it 🤣

If you pin that control column in any of the 90 degree positions and hold it there you’ll find out what 360 degrees feels like pretty quickly 😉

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@@Boredomboi3000 will talk about that in a longer video here in the next week or so. Have some parts coming in the next few days I need to determine if I’ll use or not, and that will determine the final price. Stay tuned…

@@skytation Alright nice, will do thanks!