![]() ![]() The iPad Mini you can see in its ‘dock’ is there to put Air Manager panels etc on, but also I can unplug it and use it as a scratchpad for Foreflight etc. The flap lever and spoiler lever are also Thrustmaster parts and one Thrustmaster TQ has to be connected for them to work, so when I’m using the VirtualFly TQ6 for piston or turboprops I just drop the Thrustmaster TQ into the body of the pedestal where it can’t be seen, and change the controller profile to deactivate the thrust levers etc. Lastly I added a kind of poor man’s J-rails that lets me move the seat left and right for clearance when I am getting into the seating position as otherwise it’s very, very tight with my pedestal.Īnd in the image I posted above, I’ve mounted my VirtualFly TQ6 in the space where the Thrustmaster TQ is in that photo. Then I rebuilt the base, adding a car seat adjustment rack so I could adjust it backwards and forwards. Eventually I got rid of the seat and bought a gaming-style office chair that I thought looked nice, and I removed the seat pan from it and fastened that down to my DIY base, which by now was fixed in place. I still had my old racing seat and I built a new base for that and used that free-standing for a while. Those never really got used in anger, though, as that particular project died when I moved house and the seats were too bulky and heavy to take with me. In my cockpit design at the time that was the way to get in. Then I bought a pair of old car seats, specifically from an SUV-style vehicle which had the capability to rotate through 180 degrees to face backwards. It was a racing-style bucket seat and it was OK for a few years. Way back when, I had a pre-built seat from one of those ‘racing / cockpit’ seat-and-frame combos you can buy on the internet. I’ve never gone to the lengths of entirely fabricating my own seats, though it’s certainly within the range of the average DIYer depending on how complicated you want to get. I’ve taken multiple approaches over the years. ![]()
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