Nice to see a simulator rig moving properly to simulate forces as oppose to duplicating the planes attitude. So many videos of home made rigs are doing this. I saw a guy flying a plane upside down and his rig was upside down!
That was some right to left crosswind on the take-off! Whew! I would've loved to be in that to see how real it felt. From what I could see, it looked pretty close to how that feels! Those linear actuators are noisy! Surely that could be mitigated. Between the huffing and puffing and the ring of the currents, I wonder that a pneumatic system would be better. Nowhere as control-able or trackable though. I love these things! I had a friend that worked at Flight Safety back in the 80's. At the time, they were one of the few that built full-scale simulators for all forms of craft. the were monstrous, full-sized cockpits of 737, 747, Jet Ranger and I flew in an early Airbus simulator, I actually brought that pig down on my first try! (My second, not so much! All souls were lost!) They had a place for an instructor or test administrator to sit back in the back and they would throw challenging situations at actual commercial pilots to see how they handled it. From bird-strikes to decompression, to smoke in the cabin! As long as it was there to be completed, if it was working at all, employees were invited to come in and put some hours on them to help to debug them. Half of the time the motion systems would not be ready to go but it didn't matter. You were fully immersed, where every switch was there and had a function. No Ctrl+E to autostart the engines! The only time I ever had an issue was while testing a Bell Ranger, I was really suspending my belief and my stomach was doig things and 1500 feet above a populated area, the tail rotor system glitches and I went into an uncontrollable flat spin, at hover! It kept going faster and faster until the motion systems went into "screw this" mode, but the simulation was still in the spin. I was about to throw up when the guy manning the system shut it down and I gclimbed out green in the gills. I had found a bug! It felt like I had one as well!
Very well done! I'm a retired airline pilot. I now work for FlightSafety International. We are the worlds largest flight training company and this SIM is just like our multi million dollar versions! Nice!
Very kool...a dream come true....although those noisy actuators are irksome requiring a good headset. I was taught to avoid turning during an engine off glide ...too many things can go wrong...good job.👍🏼
When you think the old Link trainers used bellows. I wonder if car lifting air bags and a cheap compressor could be used. I built a two axis motion sim, but abandoned it after a while as it did not feel realistic. In realty you don't feel lean when turning in flight and only extreme pitch up or down do you notice pitch. Most important is the vertical sensation. Also in real flight i notice seat movement more than airframe movement. My body moves relative to the cabin interior. Just make seat move up or down a few centimetres, in fact just mount seat on springs.
Stick it on a giant 8 ton industrial robot arm so it can twirl you around at different angles. It will simulate the violent motions of a jet fighter. It would make an extreme thrill ride as well as a super imersive flight Sim station.
Great upload, I am glad to know I am not the only person who has issues with their GoPro's. I have just sent one back to their European HQ as it has a hardware issue. As always love the video, really appreciate the time and effort you put in to these. If you ever find yourself in the UK..................
With this you don't have to get a license, or have to pay the maintenance of an actual 172. You can also mess around and crash for fun in this which is something you can't do in an actual 172. This is also cheaper than a newer 172.
Great University project and cool that the students were able to accomplish it, but it would have been more impressive with a wrap-around display say a 220' screen.
Awesome FMS. I would like to say though you should not be training for this type of flying as your flight planning skills (weather) should have revealed to you not to go up. I realize we get surprised by weather at times, but when in doubt turn about and don't get tempted unless you like living on the edge. Just had to throw that out there for those on the edge. Calm blue skies to all.
Nice sim, though the 6DOF is overkill, still nice. I think XPlane visuals are better than FSX. For more serious training, I would black out the surroundings, and doors on. Wish I had any sim back in the 80's when I started flying. Today, I fly and maintain the multimillion dollar airline kind. Great job, and thanks for sharing.
I'm trying to figure out how we got those rain effects on the windscreen? I've played FSX for years and I never was able to get that even with high-end hardware?
with an envy opinion, you should align your monitors or view, align your horizona to be in the middle of the fist roll of gauges is going to be similar to real. and other this is use a wrap screen other than monitor, you will feel the imersion
I remember one time on fsx I was landing on 04L at JFK on a CLS B747 as I was about 100' to touch down suddenly a wind gust pushed me to the right had to abort landing immediately or I would've ended up on the grass then screen would show crash. Then went around and same gust was there but I was prepared.
I noticed that it stays level during a climb or decent. Nor tilts left and right. It's still cool though but I think it needs some firmware mods to make it more realistic
@@jussivalter The problem with VR for sim is you still don't get the movement under you. The motion on the eyes will mess with your ear balance and ruin the effect. Sure it has gotten better with the faster headsets but you don't get the feeling of touching an actual button.
Sheeeezee with a rig like that you would think they would incorporate a curved monitor that would fit like a real Cessna windshield! Not 3 standard monitors?
@@TitaniusAnglesmith P3D is definitely *NOT* = to FSX! P3D may be 'based on' the original FSX; but LM actually made P3D into a 'Whole World Simulator', the 'Flight' side of it is the basic (commercial) way into it, but the fact remains, it is now far more than FSX.
7:55 Did anyone else get more than a little anxious when he simulated that engine failure? I mean the whole sim even creaks and bounces like I imagine a real plane would in this type of situation. JFC! That was terrifying!
Hi Martin , do you have building plans for the moving platform , like to know what you have used for aluminium struts and connections, I have 6 servo with actuators regards Hen
I have a simulator that accurately simulates the behavior of a 172 in a severe thunderstorm. It's a steel garbage can which you climb in and then have someone push you down a hill.
@@ekjas_siket He could fall out and be crushed. Get trapped in a fire. Get electrocuted. None of those are likely but neither is crashing in a real 172
That was some pretty good flying dood, 'SPECT! Am I correct in thinking the big red plug at the start is a Three-Phase electrical supply? If so, here in the UK, Three-Phase is usually 400VAC 50Hz. is it the same in Germany?
Hey, great video for a beautiful man on the flight - Question Can I ask you how much the planet costs, how much hydraulic systems generally cost, how much it costs in full and where are you from? ☺️ Is it possible to visit you after the Crohn's disease is gone, thank you🌹
Hi, where did you learn all the stuff you know, wiring, software pc, how to connect them to everything to make it work, because i am really interested to learn.
Could you please explain how and what additional hardware to buy along with the SEW Eurodrive 6DOF Motion Platform (any model no.? etc.) and how did you integrate it with TRC software? Thank you.
You are right my friend. The problem is, that it is quite different to real-life flying, because there is no control loading system. Especially the rudder is very sensitive in the sim because you also control the nose wheel with the pedals but you lack the force feedback you have in a real C172. Other Pilots who flew with the sim, had the same difficulties. In a real aircraft I have no problems maintaining centerline direction. But to be honest, I don't fly in real thunderstorms ;-)
Me and all my un-educated comments :P The C172 seems to be harder to taxi than most planes anyway. I can taxi a 777 easier than a c172 hahah. I have only sim experience though, I have no idea if its like this in real life. Thanks for taking the time to reply :) Once again, amazing setup! :)
Super Umsetzung! Welche Aktuatoren wurden genau eingesetzt? Wäre es möglich die genaue Typenbezeichnung zu erfahren? Oder gibt es auf der Homepage auch eine Projektdokumentation? Leider konnte ich nichts finden. Das würde mir sehr weiterhelfen, Danke!
Meines Wissens liegt das Hexapod insgesamt bei gut 20k €. Ja, X-Plane 11 wäre ideal, aber damals zumindest gab es für die Kabine noch keine Software die mit X-Plane kompatibel war. Ich weiß nicht, ob sich das inzwischen geändert hat.
Suedharzeisenbahnfan Lieben Dank für die Antwort. Hab mir schon gedacht, dass sich der Preisrahmen darum bewegt. :/ Bei der Hatdware Cockpit Geschichte bin ich auch raus^^
Climbing speed is 70KTS if u are climbing quickly to pass an obstacle but normal speed is 80KTS, Approaching is 70KTS till short final and not close to stall at 50!!!
Wow, I don't fly a C172 in real life but just for you I looked it up in an operating manual: SHORT FIELD TAKEOFF: 7. Climb Speed -- 56 KIAS (until all obstacles are cleared). 8. Wing Flaps -- RETRACT slowly after reaching 60 KIAS. SHORT FIELD LANDING 1. Airspeed -- 65-75 KIAS (flaps UP). 2. Wing Flaps -- FULL DOWN (30°). 3. Airspeed -- 61 KIAS (until flare). For your information: I didn't look in the manual before I flew in the simulator. I didn't practise before I took the video, I only flew probably around one or two ours with CAVOK weather settings. In real life I have flown only aircraft with a stick but not a yoke (Diamonds, Robins, Aquila and Touring Motor Gliders). This was just a bit of fun, no real flight training. If you are used to kilometre-long runways, you might like to take a higher margin to stall speed, I myself do that, too. The grass field in the video has 350 metres. If you want to land there, you have to be very strict with the approach speed. And finally: Yes you are right, it was a bit to slow.
Did you engineer and built this yourself? I know you can buy the TRC setup off the shelf but not yet seen an affordable 6degree of freedom setup for home simulators. Where did you get the equipment? Is there a plan out there to replicate your setup?
You can stick to your mouse for now as the leap motion technology is being improved. VR tricks your brain into thinking you´re sitting in a cockpit and it really moves. Is it as good as this one ? I don´t know. But it´s definitely way cheaper.
I never got on with Leap Motion. X-Plane 11's latest beta allows native VR, and using the VR's touch controllers makes it a lot easier to do things like setting nav etc - although it's still a bit fiddly. The only problem with non motion VR setups is you can't *feel* what the plane is doing. Which is not so much a problem if you're just flying around in a sim for fun. I'm currently doing circuit training in a real world 172; one of the things I need to work on is practically impossible to do properly without full motion. Definitely a lot cheaper, and will of course help with my training, but it's sadly not perfect.
Nice to see a simulator rig moving properly to simulate forces as oppose to duplicating the planes attitude. So many videos of home made rigs are doing this. I saw a guy flying a plane upside down and his rig was upside down!
Got to get the new Flight Simulator 2020 on that when it is released.
it will be no competition at all. FS2020 will amaze the world. I have been testing it for several months. Get ready world.
It released today and it is awesome!
Needs multi screen support
rob warrenflignt sim has multi screen support I believe
@@hewhomilksasmr7966 it doesnt sadly
Excellent instrument-training platform! It sure is great seeing classic electro-mechanical instrumentation doing their thing.
That, is the coolest 'home' flight simulator I've ever seen!
L R G yes if monitors close to body like real not opened from both side :)
Is good but... ua-cam.com/video/dHwduYbJ-gA/v-deo.html is better!
Wow! That is the coolest Flight Sim I have seen. I bet you quickly forget you're flying a sim...So realistic!
I have 12 dollars and 99 cents left in my card can I try this for only 2 minutes ?
The problem will be to find a flight to Germany for 12.99 dollars.
+Suedharzeisenbahnfan Ich fahr schnell rüber ;D
just $13 -_-
Beyond The Stars n
Ich hab noch nen 10er , wie lange dürfte ich denn? ^^
Perfectly level flying is the supreme challenge of the scale model pilot.
That was some right to left crosswind on the take-off! Whew! I would've loved to be in that to see how real it felt. From what I could see, it looked pretty close to how that feels! Those linear actuators are noisy! Surely that could be mitigated. Between the huffing and puffing and the ring of the currents, I wonder that a pneumatic system would be better. Nowhere as control-able or trackable though. I love these things! I had a friend that worked at Flight Safety back in the 80's. At the time, they were one of the few that built full-scale simulators for all forms of craft. the were monstrous, full-sized cockpits of 737, 747, Jet Ranger and I flew in an early Airbus simulator, I actually brought that pig down on my first try! (My second, not so much! All souls were lost!) They had a place for an instructor or test administrator to sit back in the back and they would throw challenging situations at actual commercial pilots to see how they handled it. From bird-strikes to decompression, to smoke in the cabin! As long as it was there to be completed, if it was working at all, employees were invited to come in and put some hours on them to help to debug them. Half of the time the motion systems would not be ready to go but it didn't matter. You were fully immersed, where every switch was there and had a function. No Ctrl+E to autostart the engines! The only time I ever had an issue was while testing a Bell Ranger, I was really suspending my belief and my stomach was doig things and 1500 feet above a populated area, the tail rotor system glitches and I went into an uncontrollable flat spin, at hover! It kept going faster and faster until the motion systems went into "screw this" mode, but the simulation was still in the spin. I was about to throw up when the guy manning the system shut it down and I gclimbed out green in the gills. I had found a bug! It felt like I had one as well!
Nice! :)
Looks like an awesome machine to train one!
Thanks for sharing this
OMG I loved the 1:23 mark the fastest climbing 172 on the planet.
Very well done! I'm a retired airline pilot. I now work for FlightSafety International. We are the worlds largest flight training company and this SIM is just like our multi million dollar versions! Nice!
To me that's an awesome tool I would definitely practice that all the time
Very cool! Thanks for showing off this magnificent moving machine! :)
Very kool...a dream come true....although those noisy actuators are irksome requiring a good headset.
I was taught to avoid turning during an engine off glide ...too many things can go wrong...good job.👍🏼
That is really impressive. Even in the video you almost forget it is a sim.
When you think the old Link trainers used bellows. I wonder if car lifting air bags and a cheap compressor could be used.
I built a two axis motion sim, but abandoned it after a while as it did not feel realistic. In realty you don't feel lean when turning in flight and only extreme pitch up or down do you notice pitch. Most important is the vertical sensation. Also in real flight i notice seat movement more than airframe movement. My body moves relative to the cabin interior. Just make seat move up or down a few centimetres, in fact just mount seat on springs.
Wow, with the new Microsoft flight simulator 2020, this thing is going to look like real flying
This is pretty badass! Man I wish I was rich like these guys.
MCHFacts dude what the hell, I see you everywhere I go on UA-cam, and twitter, we must be interested in the same stuff.
Flight Sim Joe He's the flight sim warrior.
Wondering if that thing cost the same as a real one
It doesn't cost that much, just look at the computer hes using. If this guy was rich I doubt he would be using a POS computer.
MCHFacts fuck yea, money make u alive, like our normal ppl just go thru life waiting to die.
You need a checklist to start that up! Great system!
Imagine this bad boy with Flight Simulator 2020
So freaking cool! Love the water drops.
Stick it on a giant 8 ton industrial robot arm so it can twirl you around at different angles. It will simulate the violent motions of a jet fighter. It would make an extreme thrill ride as well as a super imersive flight Sim station.
60k and two bits of timber to keep the side screens steady and a stack of pallets to climb in it... 🤔
I'd still like one though!
You should keep a cross hanging over the dashboard in that thing. Just for safety.
Great upload, I am glad to know I am not the only person who has issues with their GoPro's. I have just sent one back to their European HQ as it has a hardware issue. As always love the video, really appreciate the time and effort you put in to these. If you ever find yourself in the UK..................
OMG, that is awesome. It must be an amazing feeling to fly that thing, and to be rich. :D
I want one, and I want it now !!!
Great tool !
Classy step up to the flight sim. An old pallet cut in two. No expense spared.
Beautiful day for an ultralight flight.
Or you could just buy a 172....
With this you don't have to get a license, or have to pay the maintenance of an actual 172. You can also mess around and crash for fun in this which is something you can't do in an actual 172. This is also cheaper than a newer 172.
chiken da gr8 the cheapest is cessna 1550/model
+chicken da gr8 nobody (except millionairs) ever by a brand new 172. Realistically, a Cessna would be cheaper for most pilots than this
...and fly into a real thunderstorm
No good buying a 172 if you're medically unqualified.
This video is excellent for GCSE Digital Technology Students.
This is going to be so nice on FS2020
Great University project and cool that the students were able to accomplish it, but it would have been more impressive with a wrap-around display say a 220' screen.
Awesome FMS. I would like to say though you should not be training for this type of flying as your flight planning skills (weather) should have revealed to you not to go up. I realize we get surprised by weather at times, but when in doubt turn about and don't get tempted unless you like living on the edge. Just had to throw that out there for those on the edge. Calm blue skies to all.
Nice sim, though the 6DOF is overkill, still nice. I think XPlane visuals are better than FSX. For more serious training, I would black out the surroundings, and doors on. Wish I had any sim back in the 80's when I started flying. Today, I fly and maintain the multimillion dollar airline kind. Great job, and thanks for sharing.
Just like a treadmill, it gives you a whole lot of exercise but does not take you anywhere. 😀
Martin: Finally done and working great ! Microsoft: Awe that's neat, well here's FS 2020 - Start over !
WINDOWS:
An error has occurrend. To stay alive: Use parachute....hehehehe
I'm trying to figure out how we got those rain effects on the windscreen? I've played FSX for years and I never was able to get that even with high-end hardware?
with an envy opinion, you should align your monitors or view, align your horizona to be in the middle of the fist roll of gauges is going to be similar to real. and other this is use a wrap screen other than monitor, you will feel the imersion
Apply roll pressure into the wind on takeoff to compensate for crosswind
WoooooW ! I am also a student pikot in USA. I wanna this one!
I remember one time on fsx I was landing on 04L at JFK on a CLS B747 as I was about 100' to touch down suddenly a wind gust pushed me to the right had to abort landing immediately or I would've ended up on the grass then screen would show crash. Then went around and same gust was there but I was prepared.
Excellent work. Very well done.
Wow looks great !
I noticed that it stays level during a climb or decent. Nor tilts left and right.
It's still cool though but I think it needs some firmware mods to make it more realistic
Why run FSX on full motion X Plane 11 would look and feel so much nicer
And I would use VR instead physical cockpit + monitors any day. VR adds so much realism and depth feel.
@@jussivalter EEWWWW! NEVER USE VR FOR A FLIGHT SIM!
Fsx is only $20 and there simulator setup probably costs $8,500
@@jussivalter The problem with VR for sim is you still don't get the movement under you. The motion on the eyes will mess with your ear balance and ruin the effect. Sure it has gotten better with the faster headsets but you don't get the feeling of touching an actual button.
No nesacceraly with good add ones fsx can look better than xplane
Sheeeezee with a rig like that you would think they would incorporate a curved monitor that would fit like a real Cessna windshield! Not 3 standard monitors?
U should get P3D and cessna from a2a, it will be real as it gets
P3D=FSX...
X-Plane*
Titanius Anglesmith nope
Go spend 150$ and fly a real one. That's as real as it gets.
@@TitaniusAnglesmith P3D is definitely *NOT* = to FSX!
P3D may be 'based on' the original FSX; but LM actually made P3D into a 'Whole World Simulator', the 'Flight' side of it is the basic (commercial) way into it, but the fact remains, it is now far more than FSX.
Great video and simulator
7:55 Did anyone else get more than a little anxious when he simulated that engine failure? I mean the whole sim even creaks and bounces like I imagine a real plane would in this type of situation. JFC! That was terrifying!
Hi Martin , do you have building plans for the moving platform , like to know what you have used for aluminium struts and connections, I have 6 servo with actuators regards Hen
Hey, what happens if you run "out of memory ? .... Does it kick you out of your seat automatically or something ?!
mitsoswu i
I have a simulator that accurately simulates the behavior of a 172 in a severe thunderstorm. It's a steel garbage can which you climb in and then have someone push you down a hill.
Fantastic! 👍
Sweet. Where do you get one of these and what is usually the price range for one?
This is super cool
Amazing well done 👍
Such a nice tidy, simple and relatively compact design. What's the chances on some more specs on the actuator set-up? please.
The motion side of thing I should add. The fuselage and cockpit look pretty intense.
the next upgrade is to integrate the display onto the plane panel
Alles schön, leider kann man aber in Wildberg außer mit UL nicht einfach landen.Der Flugplatz existiert auch nicht in der AIP.
Cheaper to buy a 172. :) Great work with the sim, guys!!!
A used 172. Not including maintenance or a license.
this is safer
@@ekjas_siket No. It's really not. He has just as good of a chance of this thing malfunctioning and killing him as crashing a real 172.
@@justinsimmons1493 how he get kill from that height?
@@ekjas_siket He could fall out and be crushed. Get trapped in a fire. Get electrocuted. None of those are likely but neither is crashing in a real 172
😍😍😍😍 OMG this is so good men
Can I come to see this simulator? I wonder how it compares to a VR setup.
That looks awesome
That was some pretty good flying dood, 'SPECT! Am I correct in thinking the big red plug at the start is a Three-Phase electrical supply? If so, here in the UK, Three-Phase is usually 400VAC 50Hz. is it the same in Germany?
Yes, it is the same.
Nice landing after that simulated engine failure.
Neat machine.
Chris Kelling Thank you :)
Woooooow !!! SUPERB WORK !!!
Hey, great video for a beautiful man on the flight - Question Can I ask you how much the planet costs, how much hydraulic systems generally cost, how much it costs in full and where are you from? ☺️ Is it possible to visit you after the Crohn's disease is gone, thank you🌹
Any updated videos on this? What does DOT think of it?
Great Job!
Super realistic !!!
What is the price tag? can it run off the new MS flight 2020 or xplane?
Flight Simulator 2020 has entered the chat.
Hi, where did you learn all the stuff you know, wiring, software pc, how to connect them to everything to make it work, because i am really interested to learn.
Could you please explain how and what additional hardware to buy along with the SEW Eurodrive 6DOF Motion Platform (any model no.? etc.) and how did you integrate it with TRC software? Thank you.
Awesome setup, cant even keep the c172 on the RW :'D
You are right my friend. The problem is, that it is quite different to real-life flying, because there is no control loading system. Especially the rudder is very sensitive in the sim because you also control the nose wheel with the pedals but you lack the force feedback you have in a real C172. Other Pilots who flew with the sim, had the same difficulties. In a real aircraft I have no problems maintaining centerline direction. But to be honest, I don't fly in real thunderstorms ;-)
Me and all my un-educated comments :P The C172 seems to be harder to taxi than most planes anyway. I can taxi a 777 easier than a c172 hahah. I have only sim experience though, I have no idea if its like this in real life. Thanks for taking the time to reply :) Once again, amazing setup! :)
Super Umsetzung!
Welche Aktuatoren wurden genau eingesetzt? Wäre es möglich die genaue Typenbezeichnung zu erfahren?
Oder gibt es auf der Homepage auch eine Projektdokumentation? Leider konnte ich nichts finden.
Das würde mir sehr weiterhelfen, Danke!
Leider ist mir die genaue Typenbezeichnung der Aktuatoren nicht bekannt. Ich werde mich danach erkundigen.
Es handelt sich um SEW Elektrozylinder Typ CMS50S-B-AS1H-SB10-Hub300
Super, vielen Dank für deine Bemühungen! Das hilft mir auf jeden Fall weiter. Viel Erfolg und Spaß mit dem Projekt.
im building this level but a full replica tbm cockpit. i will debut it to the world in about 9 months.
I would love to have one
Amazing bro!
I am student pilot, where can also get access to this sim. its looks great for practice. I am in USA
Very nice
Its good if have both side a big electric fan 😁
I did not know of this sim’s existence.
Was kostet denn einer von diesen Aktuatoren? Der Sim sieht richtig geil aus! Jetzt noch X-Plane 11 mit der Airfoil 172 und es wäre perfekt ;)
Meines Wissens liegt das Hexapod insgesamt bei gut 20k €. Ja, X-Plane 11 wäre ideal, aber damals zumindest gab es für die Kabine noch keine Software die mit X-Plane kompatibel war. Ich weiß nicht, ob sich das inzwischen geändert hat.
Suedharzeisenbahnfan Lieben Dank für die Antwort. Hab mir schon gedacht, dass sich der Preisrahmen darum bewegt. :/ Bei der Hatdware Cockpit Geschichte bin ich auch raus^^
wooow its amazing man do you buyed and if you buyed how much do you buy please answer my question
The whole thing is still quieter than the fan in my Alienware Ryzen running DCS...
DEAR SANTA!!!!... I can barely get my FSX to record at more than 10 FPS! lol.. Help me hit 300K subs and ill buy one of these simulators ;)
count me in
Tahoe Latte awesome! I'll get it some day, just need a little help! :) cheers
😂 Cheers
DEAL
GREAT FSX !!!!
The simulator look like an ice cream truck but actually a flight simulator. Interesting
Cool, could You updown, The proyecto? To build?
Climbing speed is 70KTS if u are climbing quickly to pass an obstacle but normal speed is 80KTS, Approaching is 70KTS till short final and not close to stall at 50!!!
Wow, I don't fly a C172 in real life but just for you I looked it up in an operating manual:
SHORT FIELD TAKEOFF:
7. Climb Speed -- 56 KIAS (until all obstacles are cleared).
8. Wing Flaps -- RETRACT slowly after reaching 60 KIAS.
SHORT FIELD LANDING
1. Airspeed -- 65-75 KIAS (flaps UP).
2. Wing Flaps -- FULL DOWN (30°).
3. Airspeed -- 61 KIAS (until flare).
For your information: I didn't look in the manual before I flew in the simulator. I didn't practise before I took the video, I only flew probably around one or two ours with CAVOK weather settings. In real life I have flown only aircraft with a stick but not a yoke (Diamonds, Robins, Aquila and Touring Motor Gliders). This was just a bit of fun, no real flight training.
If you are used to kilometre-long runways, you might like to take a higher margin to stall speed, I myself do that, too. The grass field in the video has 350 metres. If you want to land there, you have to be very strict with the approach speed. And finally: Yes you are right, it was a bit to slow.
Stunning amount of work! Do you know how they made the 172 panel look so authentic and what yoke system they're using? Thanks.
The simulator cabin is a commercial product, search for TRC Simulators.
Did you engineer and built this yourself? I know you can buy the TRC setup off the shelf but not yet seen an affordable 6degree of freedom setup for home simulators. Where did you get the equipment? Is there a plan out there to replicate your setup?
Hi, I'm designing my own Diamond DA62 simulator and was just wondering what size screens you have on your setup.
Today you only need the seat and VR glasses. Looks really nice
Henson222
Sounds good, but how do you set nav-- or com frequencies or the autopilot?
You can stick to your mouse for now as the leap motion technology is being improved. VR tricks your brain into thinking you´re sitting in a cockpit and it really moves. Is it as good as this one ? I don´t know. But it´s definitely way cheaper.
And your mum shaking the sofa as if you were flying through a storm.
I never got on with Leap Motion. X-Plane 11's latest beta allows native VR, and using the VR's touch controllers makes it a lot easier to do things like setting nav etc - although it's still a bit fiddly.
The only problem with non motion VR setups is you can't *feel* what the plane is doing. Which is not so much a problem if you're just flying around in a sim for fun. I'm currently doing circuit training in a real world 172; one of the things I need to work on is practically impossible to do properly without full motion.
Definitely a lot cheaper, and will of course help with my training, but it's sadly not perfect.
Henson222 A
Some serious money right there
wow i love this man
beautiful
How do I get it