Building a high quality Flight Simulator, Home Cockpit or Desktop Trainer with high fidelity is a challenging experience. The following video gives you a quick glance into all of the steps taken, from start to finish, in order to build a DIY Cockpit that resembles the real aircraft, and can be used to train pilots, […]

Rotary Encoders with LEDs are a fun addition to any Home Cockpit or custom flight simulator project. These can be used in Flight Simulators as well as Racing Simulators; basically anywhere you are using Arduinos and other Interfacing Cards. Along with my other video on Switches and Pushbuttons with LEDs, this can be another great […]

Supporting independent Flight Simulator hardware manufacturers is a passion of mine. DIY Cockpit Panels has created Landing Gear and Flaps Lever panels that are worth taking a look at. In the video review below, you can see all of their features. They include everything you need to completely simulate their functions in the simulator, for […]

This video focuses on explaining how Flight Simulators can be so expensive, and does so by dissecting simulator gear and going over pricing for the basic components. When analyzing several components, we start with products from Logitech, such as the Pro Flight Switch Panel. These pre-built components are very popular and are usually the first […]

This video focuses on sharing knowledge from the real world of Aviation that was applied to flight simulators, in order to enhance the experience that a user may have with Flight Simulator 2020, FSX, X-Plane and prepar3D.Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE5rn9WkXe8 Summary: