Are you an RTMM bush pilot who loves using your realistic yoke, throttle and rudder pedals to land, take off, and fly over gorgeous scenery in full screen but are unable to realistically do other bush pilot activities like properly monitoring gauges, flipping a switch to turn on battery, alternator, beacon etc., turning a starter knob to start the engine, communicating with ATC or using a flap lever to lower flaps or a gear handle to raise/lower the gear?
Do you find yourself flying in full screen mode using a few key gauges including the GPS that are unrealistically plastered at the bottom and/or top of the monitor to try and avoid jumping in and out of the virtual cockpit or do you normally run in virtual cockpit mode to use your instruments while struggling with a mouse to flip a switch, change a frequency or use the GPS and wishing you could see more out the windshield?
In the last few years, technology has advanced in several areas that is making it easier and less expensive to enhance your flight simulation with a more realistic cockpit environment without spending hundreds of hours building a cockpit enclosure.
Use the link below to view a 45 minute informational video where I talk about the components of my "realistic cockpit environment" for bush flying, discuss some of the costs to add three new elements to your current flight sim environment to make it more realistic and then demonstrate my cockpit environment while flying a short flight out in the bush from one unattended airfield to another. "Do you want to take a ride?"
View Video:
https://youtu.be/xUcSons3jecI will be happy to answer any questions you might have via this thread. I hope you enjoy it.
Rod