Flight Sim CH yokes/pedals PIREP

I took mine apart when the left brake stopped working (it turned out that a
wire had broken; I reconnected it and it worked fine).

Hmmm. That's not exactly a ringing endorsement for their durability.
With so many different people using the pedals, in my application, I
wonder how long they'll last?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ups.com...
I took mine apart when the left brake stopped working (it turned out that
a
wire had broken; I reconnected it and it worked fine).

Hmmm. That's not exactly a ringing endorsement for their durability.
With so many different people using the pedals, in my application, I
wonder how long they'll last?

I don't recall just how long I had mine before the wire broke, but it was
years (and the problem was easily fixed). Not bad for a toy.

--Gary

I took mine apart when the left brake stopped working (it turned out that a
wire had broken; I reconnected it and it worked fine).

Hmmm. That's not exactly a ringing endorsement for their durability.

That's an amusing statement from a Lightspeed apologist. Maybe they're
working now, but in the early days when you had so much trouble with
them you chafed at similar comments.

Jose
--
"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where
it keeps its brain." (chapter 10 of book 3 - Harry Potter).
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Morgans wrote:
"Stefan" wrote in message
http://home.balcab.ch/stefan/public/Flugsimulator.jpg

Man, that is ...Scary! Is that your setup?
How do you link that many monitors (and computers?) to run off of one program?

With "WIdeView". It lets you network as many computers as you'd like,
all running MS Flight Sim, and all moving in sync. Most use it to
give side images so that you can turn your head and look out the side
windows of the cockpit, giving a far more realistic experience to
flying a landing pattern.

Someone built a sim of an airliner, with cockpit _and_ several
passenger rows. They used WideView to run monitors placed outside the
passenger windows, thus giving a family-flight experience

http://www.wideview.it/

The other program used a lot is WideFS, which allows other computers
access to MSFS variables. Grab an old cheap laptop with small screen
and tie it into the net as your Garmin avionics, for example.

These days, there's no reason a pilot can't use a cheap sim to pre-fly
a route and ILS to a srange airport.

Kev

To solve many of your sensitivity problems and be able to add all sorts
of cool things, be sure to get the #1 FS addon: FSUIPC:

http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html

Wow, what a perfect example of a poorly designed webpage. No where on
the page do they bother to explain what "FSUIPC" is -- although you
*can* download FSUIPC (and other flight sim stuff) from there.

After a little searching, I found the answer here, on another webpage:

http://simmarket.com/product_info.php?products_id=2068

Thanks for the other links, BTW. Lots of good stuff there.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I've spent some time day-dreaming over a motion simulator. Take a look
at:
http://www.acesim.com/main.html

Jeff

Kev wrote:
Jay Honeck wrote:
Until now, flying MS Flight Sim '04 using the big screen projector at
the hotel has been cool, but, well, unreal. A joystick -- even a
force-feedback stick, like we used -- is simply a bad compromise

Yes, far better with yoke and rudder pedals with toe brakes.

To solve many of your sensitivity problems and be able to add all sorts
of cool things, be sure to get the #1 FS addon: FSUIPC:

http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html

Next, order up your local scenery and better terrain from someone like:

http://www.pcaviator.com/megascenery/
http://portal.fsgenesis.net/

I can actually follow the roads and lakes around northern NJ on the
sim!

Personally, I use a sim to pre-plan flights (hey, look there's a ridge
...
So here comes some radio links, which should make you drool a bit:

http://www.flyelite.com/hardware.php
http://www.goflightinc.com/order/index.php
http://sim.itra.de/default_en.htm
http://www.simkits.com/

Best, Kev

I've spent some time day-dreaming over a motion simulator. Take a look
at:
http://www.acesim.com/main.html

Cool! A tad pricey, at $1800 (pre-built; less if you build it
yourself), but cool nonetheless.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article .com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

To solve many of your sensitivity problems and be able to add all sorts
of cool things, be sure to get the #1 FS addon: FSUIPC:

http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html

Wow, what a perfect example of a poorly designed webpage. No where on
the page do they bother to explain what "FSUIPC" is -- although you
*can* download FSUIPC (and other flight sim stuff) from there.

After a little searching, I found the answer here, on another webpage:

http://simmarket.com/product_info.php?products_id=2068

Thanks for the other links, BTW. Lots of good stuff there.

and you don't even tell us... sheeesssh.

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

On 2006-10-28, wrote:
Ben Jackson wrote:

ABSOLUTELY DO **NOT** TAKE APART THE PEDALS. Ask me how I know ;-)

How do you know?

I am guessing that either tiny springs fly everywhere,

Yep. When I pulled the case halves apart it dislodged some internal
mechanism and it was tricky to figure out where everything went and
get it to agree to stay there while I put the case back together.
I opened mine because the rudder centerpoint would drift. I don't
think I managed to fix that (no loose connections or slipping pot)
but I did get them back together. I mostly don't use them, since I
only sim for IFR practice.

--
Ben Jackson AD7GD

http://www.ben.com/

Morgans schrieb:

http://home.balcab.ch/stefan/public/Flugsimulator.jpg

Man, that is ...Scary! Is that your setup?

No. No time nor desire to sim, because I devote my limited amount of
spare time and spare money to real flying. I just pulled the picture off
the net because I thought it was funny.

Stefan