About the project
After building my Airbus A319 cockpit based on the Wilco Airbus aircraft add-on for Microsoft FSX and it taking up my entire spare bedroom I have decided that I am going to build a Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor fighter cockpit which will use the IRIS F-22 model which I must say is a very lovely add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator X.
You can find out more information about the Lockhead-Martin F22 over at Wikipedia.
Why?
Well why not? – I personally love flying on flight simulators… I love the scenery that you can see outside the aircraft and with various scenery packs etc. it really does look very realistic!
Resources for others
Below are some links to resources for others building home cockpits or specifically a home cockpit based on the IRIS F-22 Raptor.
To be able to assign the physical switches and buttons I had to develop a LUA module for FSUIPC as the aircraft model uses some custom LVAR’s that I could not access using the standard MS FSX controls list. Full source code and documentation can be access and downloaded from my Github project page.
- http://www.f22fighter.com/ - A website full of infomation about the Lockheed-Martin F-22 fighter jet.
- The Bloody Beginner’s Guide to Realistic Flight Simulation - A great PDF I found on the internet detailing how to increase the realism through add-ons etc. for your flight simulator (Meshing, add-on scenery, weather engines etc.)
Links to other cockpits
http://www.lekseecon.nl/ - Good examples on how to program with SIOC (The opencockpits I/O controller language)
http://www.lear45project.org/ - A Learjet45 home cockpit project shows great examples of using wood and building an awesome airframe.
http://www.freewebs.com/shamrock075/ - An Airbus home cockpit (I based my first A319 cockpit on this site) – Lots of useful information and photos including videos on how to do mouse trapping/macro’s in FSUIPC.
http://www.hobbykjelleren.net/flightsim/indexEng.htm - An F-16 home cockpit that I found online!
http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/showthread.php/20709-My-F-16-cockpit - Discussion about HUD add-on for use on separate display.