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I built a switchpanel.

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Peter SWE

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Thought i'd share what i'm working on for FSX, a Switchpanel/simpit thingy.

I'm using a Leo bodnar I/U card that is basicaly a joystick controllercard that gives me a heap of configurable joystickbuttons. It's all really basic since i want it to be generic so i can use it for any type of aircraft in the sim. All button and switches is momentary, 0-(1), and coupled to FSX keycommands. There's no extra software between the panel and FSX, all funktions are configured in FSX assignments.

The radios are tuned by having one swith be the [COM1 Select] and then tuning the freq. with a rotary switch that acts as [selection decrese/increse]. This panel is the MK2 prototype and i will build one in carbon fibre that will look like something from a actual aircraft when i settle on a layout that works good, feels and looks right.

For W.A.F. (Wife Acceptans Factor) reasons i made it quicly removable so it's clampt to the desk and the whole simpit is stowed away in minutes.

The Seat used is a Sparco bucketseat that came from my old trackday car, a racingseat that gives the right feeling of a small and tight cockpit.

In the clip i fly the Iris Silence Twister and all funktions in the plane are controlled by the joystick and the panel. The scenery is everything avalible for the Vegas area and the voicecontroll is FS++ Multi crew experience.





 
Looks good! Veyr impressed, sounds fairly simple to set up was this the case? Maybe a write up like step by step or some guide would be nice as that would be a cool project to undertake.

I purchased a few months back an old EPOS keyboard that you can program a keystroke to and lable the buttons up, quite handy for multi engines etc but nothing like your panel!
 
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