Making New MFCD's- A10C Warthog Simulator 

Sorry about the sections of silence throughout this video. I chose to simply mute it rather than re-upload it after a shady copyright claim... Tip. Don't advertise your music as free to use for youtube creators if you intend to later copyright claim them for the ad revenue. That's called being an asshole.

I think you should do an episode where an A-10 pilot comes in and tests out your sim pit. It looks amazing.

I am so in awe of this project. I hope you will continue this channel with related content, even just gameplay or something. This channel is just too good to get buried in the youtube algorithm.

Me when I got the A-10: I want a setup like this. Me a month later: oooooo f-14 I want a Whole RIO setup. Me a week later: Oooooooo f-16 is on sale

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Awesome job!!! You can put felt around the rocker switches to eliminate the light bleed through.

Thank you, interesting and enjoyable. It’s generous of you to take the time to make the videos. We all benefit from learning and sharing. I also extended the white lines with electrical tape that’s a good mod that anyone can do it makes a big difference to the look and functionality the parallax effect is a real pain otherwise. Regards, Mark

On your rocker switches ad a curved lip on the back so it blocks the light creep and still allows it to rock. Both the cockpit and the engineering massively cool though.

Mate, you are actually a legend! Keep doing your stuff man, I'm thoroughly enjoying watching your project 👍

That laser cutter is magic. So impressed with your abilities to design this cockpit.

Amazing genius! I'm waiting for the next episode !

Next Episode: Making a real A-10C to prank my neighbors

Amazing work Ray! I love the button solution of cutting and gluing using the C02 laser, never thought of that! Keep posting!

Dude keep up the amazing work the only reason why bought a thrust-master joystick and throttle is because of u and started being a a-10 warthog in arma 3

You are a HERO!

New viewer - holy crap man... awesome design work.

Top notch craftsmanship,well done sir !!!

@18:02 We do too! Amazing dedication to your passion. Well done!!!

Love these vids,watching them made me purchase a cheap CNC engraver & am having a ball,thank's for the inspiration mate!

Wow... I cannot believe the effort you put into this (ongoing) project. I would pay all the dollars for a setup like yours! Great video series, thanks for your time and effort. It's obvious that the Warthog is a plane near and dear to the hearts of many, many, many people. Great job!

" I think it looks pretty good" - Understatement of the year, right there, mate. I'd lay down money for these, wonderful work!

Hi Ray, a great upgrade to your simpit. I really like the marker lines using white electrical tape. I might add that to mine. I've found that because the position of the MFCDs is not in straight line of sight, it's not always clear, when looking quickly, which button is for which function. The back lighting looked evenly spread so good job there. I did have a concern myself with the cost of tactiles with integral LEDs, but managed to source cheaper ones of Ali express in the end Nice one, thanks for sharing

Very Nice!

Mate, what an incredible effort. Awesome to see!

It really is a lot easier to be able to CAD up the PCBs with proper edge routing, assembly, component placement, connectors and hole alignment. It really would be worth your time to learn!

Holy s***! What a cool sim setup! I'm just trying to think what aircraft I'd go to this effort for...

What an amazing project! Thank you for sharing this, I’ve got a lot of videos to go back and watch! Subscribed 100%

That is just amazing.

This is crazy good! you should be proud of your work! A+++

Great job mate!

This is epic. Nice work

You’ve done an awesome job. I’d love to have a set of 3 for my f18. I have the cougars but yours look better. I think your hobby is more along the lines of building flight simulators and not as much flying them. Keep up the great work man

Amazing work, bravo :)

Mate im asking my wife if i can come and play at your place. You have all the cool toys. 🤪

Very nice design and manufacturing! Your rig is awesome!

Absolutely amazing work as always. Wish I could do half of what is needed to complete something like this. I would ask how much to build me one for the F-14 but I am pretty sure it would cost more than a real F-14. LOL

Outstanding!

Awesome fab work bro! Great looking stuff and one hell of a setup!!

Impressive work mate! Love watching your videos. Have got a lot of inspiration from you. Keep up the awesome work on your sim!

Absolutely awesome, Thanks for sharing. Can you specifIcly show the wiring of the tactile switches, to include how they are ran from and to controller. Building AH64 TEDAC. Share wiring diagram, please ? Thanks!!

Amazing job again. You really should stream your flights in multi camera now !

Love watching your videos mate, very interesting and you present so well

You're a really crafty bloke! You should start a business selling this stuff at a premium! Damn I'm jealous of your cockpit, what an excellent job you've done!

Absolutely insane dude. Love it!

Inspiring.

amazing videos!!! please more of these construction videos. What Laser cutter do you use?

Excellent work!

Did you consider using the more expensive tactile switches with centre LED, just for the rocker switches, which should avoid light leak through for those type switches? Great job on these. Thanks for posting the update.

Me: "Thrustmaster Cougar MFDs are more than adequate for any sim rig." T.W.P: "Hold my beer..."

the level of perfectness .. any chance for the Hornet cockpit??

finally a new upload :)

nice. why not put a hole in the bottom half to recess the LED? could also try 3D printing TPU, stopping the print half way, set in the button acrylic, and then continuing the print.

Nice... Very nice.

Wow nice work on those MFDs! They are considerably larger than Viper MFDs. With my aging eyes maybe I should have built an A-10. Lol. I’m curious how you measured out your buttons so that match up to the onscreen button as you indicated in the video?

I Admire all the work you have done. Would you please do a video on your laser cutter?

You're fucking insane. I love it.

Yo man, love the project, im setting off on my own Home PittCock journey, but i know nothing about electronic lighting, i think i have everything down BUT ..... Backlighting!!! What a pain in the scrote backlighting is. Ive used a MOSFET breakout board to separate the 12v supply from the arduino board so i can trigger the backlight from Mobiflight. Im on 3x 3.3v white LEDs and a resistor per loop, arranged in parallel loops on a 12v circuit. But the circuit can change to a different power brick. I "calculated" the resistor value to require 100R resistors.. The result is amounts of light barely detectable to the human eye 😂 Any recommendations on troubleshooting a power discrepancy and selecting a power circuit or changing out the resistance? Kinda scared to slam a load more current through it tbh.

Amazing work as usual.

Honestly don't think I've ever been so envious of anything as I am of your amazing setup.. I don't know if you talk about it much in your videos because I'm just starting to watch them all but how you hook them up to those boards and get them to function is there a program or do you have to make a program how does that all work

I put rubber sheet behind my rocker switch to block light :)

Mate, fucking awesomeness

Amazing, Great job.

Intro - where's the BRRRRTTT?

The only thing missing now is a phisical HUD

Love the diy ingenuity. I've been following for awhile and it's turning out better than I imagined. What laser are you using? Looks like a Co2, but curious on the wattage.

you should make and sell this stuff

crazy amount of work! looks great though! how much power are you using on your K40 to cut the PCB boards strips?

hi hi, wow, must say amazing.... would you mind showing the big screen thats at the back... how do you position locate the MFD displays exactly at the location where the hole is in the MFCD's. on this screen a@17:07. whats a build up display and whats from the screen at the back ?

I’m building a similar setup for my Batmobile I’m about 3 months from finishing

Amazing work...

This is absolutely insane! So proud you're a fellow Australian! If you were to do it all over again with what youve learned would you use Arduino or just go full Leo Bodnar ? Cheers mate. Also do you have a video showing your weathering process to get the scratched up aluminium look?

I wish these were sold somewhere

Did i understand your videos correctly that the gauges on the front panel is just a big regular monitor screen? And then using some kind of program to copy that area of the display in dcs show it on that perticular space?

Fantastic work! An inspiration. (You're using stripboard here, though… it's not a PCB if it's not printed and not a circuit ;) )

Love watching your videos, great project, as well as great video production quality. I have a question though, how many arduinos does it take to operate the pit, and is it hard to get them to interact? Never done any coding, but really really really want to make my own pit for the F14, I've found a stick and throttle for sale so that's a good start! Also ordered flight manuals off Amazon for it.

Impressive stuff.

Amazing job!!

hey RomeoKilo do you remember/know which specific switches you used for turning on/off the mfcds? i looked through the build log on the ED forums but didn't find any specifics. the how much did it cost videos glanced over it too i think. if you know, let me know!

Proper backlit panels are done the way you have made the pcb. The only difference from your panel is that they don’t use multiple layers of plastic. Real aircraft panels are made of CLEAR plastic and painted with blanking paint and then engraved. Now the way the engraved lines fluoresce is simple... you put a thin layer of paint on top and as the engraved lines are lower than the surround all you do is put a piece of cloth on a scraper, add a bit of thinner and just wipe the excess off. It’s a bit more faff but it stops the one thing I absolutely HATED about my old panels... HOT SPOTS. Also it ate light because of the white layer stopping it passing through properly meaning you have to turn up the brightness which causes light leakage. The proper method means using lower wattage lights, no light leak and you still get a lovely fluorescent line... AND you can even have coloured lines mixed with white ones like you see on Boeing and Airbus panel (and many others). Oh and how did I find this out? I sat on one of my REAL ATR72 wing panels and broke the sucker in two... I used to think it was multi layered as well but then found the bottom layer of the clear is painted thin white and the upper lines are painted white (actually parchment) on my panels or whatever you need. And it’s pretty easy to do. Ironically I found it out after trying to glue together multiple layer, multiple colours and then painting over the top because one panel has white, orange and green lines on a single panel which did my head in. Anyhoo, love your Hog pit... loved it so much I’ve started on making my own. So thanks for that (love you and hate you in equal measures mate lol). Oh and you commented on the TISL panel having those dual lit buttons. I’m surprised you didn’t figure it out. Just make a button like normal, cut it in half and then epoxy glue a thin sheet of aluminium between the two part then paint and leave to dry. Cut out a holder for the button on your cnc (or laser), then without moving the holder you drop in the button and engrave it (making sure the alignment is the right way round... yeah, learned that the hard way) then put a long button micro switch behind another pcb with the two LEDs. A small hole let’s the micro switch button reach up to the switch.. but the real secret to avoiding light leak is to put some foam rubber under he button with a hole for each led and the centre micro switch button. Works a treat and is way cheaper than a real one yet works and looks just as good.

Im trying to make my own MFDs and I ordered the wrong experimental PCB lol. Trying to figure out your soldering and wiring there, do you have any other detailed pics or diagrams?

I love it too

nice

What a awesome setup. Step up from VR.

What colour spray did you use for the buttons mate? Was it still rustoleum? Can't see a matte grey version from them.

IRL you NEVER see a plane bank away from a tanker like that.. Looks cool tho'

Very Nice

I’m sure you’re better then those A-10 pilots because they don’t know how to make a home cockpit 🤣

did you use a 8 pos rotary switch for the Day-Night -Off switch? I dont find anything in the proper size... They are all to big.

Quick question...what 3d printer and laser cutter do you use and how much was it for the gear.

Hi. I was wondering what kind of rotary switch you used? I've tried searching ebay but haven't found anything other than rotary encoders that look like that. Can you tell me the model of the switch. Thank you.

do you think you will sell these? I mean the kits so you just print/cut/label and then just send it out ..

I know this is an older video. But where do I get the boards like that you have your switch in.

11:45 "pretty simple nothing fancy" yeah sure this is *not* fancy

实现你的梦想make your dream comes true

Hiya, what laser do you use to cut out the acrylic sheets ?

Hi would u be looking to build some of the mfd or just 3d printed parts

PCB design is really easy with a software such as KiCad (free) or Fritzing (dunno if still free). you can learn enough to meet all your needs in less than 1h. I get that prototype boards are easier to deal with for such simple circuits (and much less expensive too), but you shouldn't be afraid to try them out if and when you do more complex stuff. Also other question, why use the BBI-64? Currently working with a teensy LC, and with easy to implement matrix I can get more buttons (incl. analog inputs) than the BBI-64 for a fraction of the cost while still getting joystick emulation...

What size screen did you use for the mfcd

Wow have you thought of selling them

Great job mate. You should consider doing these cockpit builds as a business. I’d be happy to discuss building me a VR pit for a reasonable price. Let me know if you’re interested. Cheers, Craig (Sydney)