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Has anyone written some sort of program/hack to get position data out of MS
flight simulator that could be used to control a cockpit motion device? It
seems like it wouldn't be too hard to build a two axis positioner if you
could get the pitch and roll data out of the sim program.

Position data is no good. Apparently using pitch and roll directly
will only make you feel sick. Instead, you need to give motion cues,
like tilting back for acceleration, etc. Read the section on Motion
Platforms at

http://www.epmm.com.au/sim/reference.htm

As for the data, I believe FSUIPC gives the acceleration in all three
axis.

Obviously you'll need to make the whole cockpit closed in and on your
motion device to keep the realism.

I've read comments from some motion sim experts who said that it was
just as cheap, and almost as good, to simply have a good sound system
and total enclosure... your eyes and ears will fool your brain into
everything else.

Kevin