8/15/2023 0 Comments F18 cockpit view air show![]() Ended up liking the look of this one and the frame rails had flat mounting points which I needed for the box frame I was going to build to mount it on. On to the seat! I went to a local junk yard and searched for over an hour for a seat I liked. I had to bend it where the bends are in the real cockpit, so I had to get a little creative to do the bends:įront panel with the sun shield installed: I bought a piece of thin aluminum from a metal shop and traced the pattern onto it and cut it out: I would have put it where the normal lighting dials are in the plane, but that is where the keyboard is going to sit: Put a switch where the battery switch is in the plane and it controls the lights. Side rails painted, pictures installed on arm panels, more lights:Ĭlose up of the gauge lit up with the lights: Starting to add the lights with the upper side rails installed: The wires that were left connected seemed to go to what should be a light, so, I tested it with a battery and behold, light! I also glued the needle in place so it looks like it's in use.Ĭut out the shape in the landing gear panel and installed it:įar rear panels painted and installed, and some paint going on the side panels: ![]() I needed it to be fairly short and didn’t need all the mechanicals on the back of it so I removed them and was left with this: It wasn’t going to fit in the cockpit like this so had to disassemble it: Ended up with a real brake pressure gauge out of an F-18: I just wanted something like a switch or something small. I really wanted to put something in the cockpit that came out of a real F-18 so I went on a search. The middle of the DDI’s are actually screenshots taken out of DCS and photoshopped into the main pictures pulled from the Dogfight Boss plans. The pictures are printed onto high quality photopaper and installed onto the wood. Now I started to work in the instrument panel: ![]() Here is a gif of the main frame going together: Here is what the main frame looks like put together: Starting to put some of the pieces together: Here is one of the frame pieces traced onto the wood ready to be cut out: Using this thing was a life safer to cut out the printed shapes: Here are some more shapes cut out I need to put together: Here is the very first piece printed on the paper and cut to shape which is the left base of the cockpit: Little did I know how much work was ahead of me!Īll of the cockpit pieces were printed out on paper, cut out to shape, traced onto wood, then cut out of the wood. Did a little research and off to Home Depot to buy wood and a jigsaw. Reset the camera and turn headtracking back on. I decided that I was going to build a full F-18 cockpit based on and the dogfight boss plans. Use the keyboard commands ( Num keys to rotate, RCtrl RShift Num to move) to set up the desired point of view. RF F9G2G0 The cockpit of an F-18 fighter plane parked on the runway during the air show RM TB5D7M Cockpit, Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet, Swiss Air Force, Payerne, Switzerland RF C809K3 An F/A-18 Super Hornet of the U.S. After almost a year, my F-18 cockpit build is complete and this is how it all happened!Īfter searching around trying to figure out what kind of home cockpit I wanted to do, I saw this thread:
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