My Sim Pit and Share Yours

[VR-DriftaholiC]

Just finished the first stage of this. Using these dimensions:

 

To use as reference. The pedal angle is a bit off and the seat it actually a couple inches higher then in the image. Logitech G940 with stick extended and yoke bearings upgraded and shimmed to remove play. The pedals have a Yamaha R1 steering dampener to give them a  more realistic feel, this however makes the play in the pedals more noticeable. I intent to replace these with MFG Crosswinds soon :D Also planning on getting a Saitek throttle quad to put low to the left of the seat to use for oil/radiator etc. 

 

Edited November 29, 2013 by driftaholic

[IJG53_Ken]

This is My Pit before it was my Race chair   today i finished my first small Panel.

It must be a universal Pit i Fly FSX and DCS and COD,BOS with it

 

 

OLD Times

 

 

 

 

 

 

First Small Panel

 

 

 

 

regards Ken

[ruby_monkey]

Ok, I'll play...

 

_R000548 by Jean-Yves, on Flickr

 

Totally and utterly realistic. You'd never know you weren't in a real warbird. 

(Not shown - crappy folding chair I use 'cos it's the only thing I have available that doesn't have castors, and so won't roll away whenever I lean on the rudder pedals)

[BKork17]

Here's my attempt at the Spitfire.

[Chief_Mouser]

I'm a bit worried about the bog in the corner. In case of air-sickness?

 

PS Nice work!

Edited April 10, 2018 by 216th_Cat

[ruby_monkey]

On 10/04/2018 at 10:49 PM, 216th_Cat said:

I'm a bit worried about the bog in the corner. In case of air-sickness?

That's the LaGG-3.

Edited April 12, 2018 by ruby_monkey

[THERION]

Here is mine...

 

 

 

Still WIP.

 

Cheers

[SR603-McMurdo]

heres mine sort of A10/190

[BP_Lizard]

Wow! Great looking sim pits.

McMurdo: That is amazing! How long did it take you to build that? Are the gauges functional?

[Archie]

Here's mine, with my new GVL throttle!

[ITAF_Rani]

Mc Murdo my compliments..I m really envious

Could you tell us same details about the construction.

Many txs

[Beazil]

That is one awesome Fw pit.

[SR603-McMurdo]

On 17/04/2018 at 2:16 AM, BP_Lizard said:

Wow! Great looking sim pits.

McMurdo: That is amazing! How long did it take you to build that? Are the gauges functional?

No sorry ? as far as I know il2 box does not give you the data for working gauges ? ULA file ? The clock works tho ? as do all the switches.

17 hours ago, ITAF_Rani said:

Mc Murdo my compliments..I m really envious

Could you tell us same details about the construction.

Many txs

Yes I can give you more photos on the build it was scaled up from a 1/20 scale verlinden cockpit collectors series model.

Edited April 18, 2018 by SR603-McMurdo
Muddled

[ITAF_Rani]

Many txs...could you post them here?

[SR603-McMurdo]

16 hours ago, Beazil said:

That is one awesome Fw pit.

Thank you there’s much better ones out there than my effort but thank you very much ☺️

16 minutes ago, ITAF_Rani said:

Many txs...could you post them here?

Yes I’ll look them out and do that thank you.

21 hours ago, 6./ZG76_Archie said:

Here's mine, with my new GVL throttle!

Fantastic! I’m after one of his throttles for my pit as 190 ones are nonexistent ? been talking to him and have the dosh just can’t decide what buttons to go for on it ? very nice set up tho it’s quite a bug when it starts to bite the cockpit bug.

Edited April 18, 2018 by SR603-McMurdo
Muddled

[Lensman1945]

Great pits on here! 

Love your SpitPit BKork. Here's my attempt. Instruments are just for window dressing, but all relevant switches, buttons and controls work.

[BP_Lizard]

Lensman1945: Good god! Great work, man!

 

[BKork17]

Lensman, That thing is beautiful! Like yours, all my switches are functional. I set my pit up so that when you reached out your hand in VR, the switch or knob would be close to where it appears to be in the hmd. But your really looks the part. Wow, great job. I designed a gunsight that holds two potentiometers for axis’s. I’d be willing to share the printable files with you. It looks like that’s all that’s missing. Let me know.

[Seb71]

If using VR, kind of defeats the purpose.

[Lensman1945]

1 hour ago, Seb71 said:

If using VR, kind of defeats the purpose.

That's a good point, and in honesty I built the pit to go with a projector and screen set up which I still have in place. However, as most people find, once you try VR there is no going back to a screen and as BKork says, if the pit is to scale, all the controls and switches come to hand as you reach out in the virtual world. 

It's also kind of neat and immersive having to wriggle yourself into the pit and feel the 'physical' confines before donning the RIFT.