BUILD JOURNAL: PART ONE When a Flight Simulator Experience Turns Into a Six-Axis Motion Simulator David Feetham went for a flight simulator experience after retiring. A few years later, he’s building a fully enclosed, dual-control Cessna 172 simulator on a six-degree-of-freedom motion platform — and planning to turn it into a business. There is a […]
1. For somebody discovering you for the first time, what is FlightControls and what are you building? FlightControls is a fairly new startup Flight Simulation Controls company providing high-quality & easy to use physical controls so you can build your own cockpit, piece by piece. We currently have built our first product, our Airbus Overhead […]
There are some bits of flight simulation software that almost every simmer knows about, even if they don’t necessarily use them every day, and MobiFlight is probably one of them. I’ll be upfront from the start: I don’t use MobiFlight very much these days. Most of the hardware in my current setup comes with its […]
What is DesktopCockpits, and how would you explain what you’re doing to someone discovering it for the first time? DesktopCockpits designs and produces pre-assembled desktop flight-simulator cockpits for Microsoft Flight Simulator and X-Plane 12. Building a home simulator can sometimes feel overwhelming, expensive and time-consuming. Many flight simmers also need their desk for work or […]
The UK flight simulation community has been waiting a long time for a dedicated event of its own. This autumn, that wait comes to an end with FSimUK at Aerospace Bristol. What started with conversations among members of the Bristol Flight Simulation Group has grown into an event bringing together flight simmers, developers, hardware manufacturers, […]
We’ll admit something. Until we became involved with FSimUK, we hadn’t heard of Authentikit. And that’s actually one of the reasons we wanted to feature them. Flight simulation is enormous. Yet depending on the creators you watch, communities you belong to and aircraft you fly, it can sometimes feel as though we’re all talking about […]
There are some things you see and immediately think: We need one of those in The Hangar. That’s pretty much what happened when we discovered Lids, Tops & Tails. They create aviation-inspired illuminated light boxes, including designs based around one of the most instantly recognisable parts of any aircraft – its tail. For an AvGeek, […]
You load the simulator. You’ve got an A320 sitting at Heathrow. And then comes that strangely difficult question: Where shall I fly? You could open a flight-tracking website, find a real-world service and recreate it. You could pick an airport you’ve never visited. Or you could spend the next 45 minutes deciding where to go […]
What does sitting at home flying an airliner in Microsoft Flight Simulator have to do with the future of real-world aviation? Potentially, quite a lot. When we started building AvGeekHangar, we knew that flight simulation and aviation naturally belonged together. What has surprised us as we’ve spoken to more people, organisations and businesses is that […]
Two days. One Community Hub. Four Landing Challenges. And plenty of reasons to come and say hello. When AvGeekHangar became FSimUK’s Official Community Partner, we didn’t want to turn up in October, put our logo on a stand and spend the weekend telling people about our website. We wanted to bring something useful to the […]
