Tag: Home Cockpit

DIY Multi-Projector geometric Warping and Blending for X-Plane

Introduction This article is about setting up multi-projector visuals on a cylindrical screen for a flight simulator home cockpit. There are three image transformations one will need to accomplish for it to work properly. Figure 1: Sample three projector system (left). Distorted images and overlaps when projecting from X-Plane without warping & blending (center). Properly …

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Flight Simulator 1.0

Not many words needed. I’m happy to show you some pictures of my first flight yesterday on 26 March 2024 with the newly rebuilt Flight Simulator Home Cockpit, now featuring a second flight management computer and the newly built aft overhead panel, and, and, and … also many thanks for the VACC (VATSIM Controllers in …

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Boeing 737 Control Columns

To enhance a home cockpit with realistic controls instead of just using a simple joystick and gaming rudder pedals is possibly the dream of every cockpit builder. So here it goes … Boeing Airliners still have *real* linked Yoke Columns and Rudder Pedals. And there is quite some mechanical engineering involvend when you want to …

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