homebrew helicopter flight sim controls
posted Mar 20th 2005 3:13am by Jason Striegelfiled under: misc hacks, peripherals hacks
whirlyman sent us a link to instructions for turning a usb flight stick into a realistic helicopter flight control system for use with your favorite flight sim.
steve, the project’s creator, did something really interesting here because his control system externally manipulates the stock ms flightstick. the stick wasn’t disassembled or altered to connect the realistic controls for the pedals, cyclic and collective.
update: ugh — geocities bandwidth limit exceeded. for those of you who just want to take a quick look, i’ve added a couple pictures and a link to google’s cache after the break. let me know if a better mirror exists and i’ll post it.
unfortunately, the site is in frames with flash used for sidebar navigation, so google didn’t cache much. here is a link to the google cache for the main page.
you may want to check out the following links from thelz:
http://www.rcsimulations.com/copycat.htm
http://www.flightlink.com/hardware/rotorwing/index.html
http://www.simcontrol.co.uk/menuepage.htm
following are a few pictures pulled from my browser cache:
Any mirrors?
It’s hosted by geocities so naturally has exceeded its allocated data transfer.