Cessna 172 Full Motion Flight Simulator - Thunderstorm Flying!

This is the Cessna 172 Full Motion Flight Simulator of the DHBW Ravensburg University. It consists of a TRC Simulators 472F Cabin and a 6DOF Motion Platform build of 6 electric actuators by SEW Eurodrive. Some Parts are still more or less provisional, like the wooden struts.
Flight Simulation Software: Microsoft FSX or Lockheed Martin Prepar3D
Addons: Aerosoft Friedrichshafen, Aerosoft VFR Germany Süddeutschland, Thomas Zipfels Wildberg - Fliegender Bauer (Freeware)
Motion Cueing Software: BFF Motion Driver

[@pauldavis5665]

Got to get the new Flight Simulator 2020 on that when it is released.

[@jessejames5825]

it will be no competition at all. FS2020 will amaze the world. I have been testing it for several months. Get ready world.

[@shanthanuhemanth5070]

It released today and it is awesome!

[@robwarrenn]

Needs multi screen support

[@hewhomilksasmr7966]

rob warrenflignt sim has multi screen support I believe

[@yannisl8259]

@@hewhomilksasmr7966 it doesnt sadly

[@Windtee]

Excellent instrument-training platform! It sure is great seeing classic electro-mechanical instrumentation doing their thing.

[@SilverCymbal]

Looks like an awesome machine to train one! Thanks for sharing this

[@Incognito-vc9wj]

Nice to see a simulator rig moving properly to simulate forces as oppose to duplicating the planes attitude. So many videos of home made rigs are doing this. I saw a guy flying a plane upside down and his rig was upside down!

[@valveman12]

Wow! That is the coolest Flight Sim I have seen. I bet you quickly forget you're flying a sim...So realistic!

[@lrg3834]

That, is the coolest 'home' flight simulator I've ever seen!

[@Live-life..]

L R G yes if monitors close to body like real not opened from both side :)

[@sergiomarquina5982]

Is good but... kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnnalaiPl69gnaM is better!

[@TheFlightSimDeck]

So freaking cool! Love the water drops.

[@TheCivvyFastJetPilot]

Great upload, I am glad to know I am not the only person who has issues with their GoPro's. I have just sent one back to their European HQ as it has a hardware issue. As always love the video, really appreciate the time and effort you put in to these. If you ever find yourself in the UK..................

[@georgeamenta8207]

Amazing well done 👍

[@rogerdodgeraviation]

Excellent work. Very well done.

[@tonymatulonis2136]

Wow looks great !

[@wimrobberechts1230]

I want one, and I want it now !!! Great tool !

[@hsantos5675]

Great Job!

[@israelruano4019]

You need a checklist to start that up! Great system!

[@mikemarcott4888]

To me that's an awesome tool I would definitely practice that all the time

[@romano5497]

That looks awesome

[@bertinfreckmann6553]

Woooooow !!! SUPERB WORK !!!

[@Blissterd1]

That was some right to left crosswind on the take-off! Whew! I would've loved to be in that to see how real it felt. From what I could see, it looked pretty close to how that feels! Those linear actuators are noisy! Surely that could be mitigated. Between the huffing and puffing and the ring of the currents, I wonder that a pneumatic system would be better. Nowhere as control-able or trackable though. I love these things! I had a friend that worked at Flight Safety back in the 80's. At the time, they were one of the few that built full-scale simulators for all forms of craft. the were monstrous, full-sized cockpits of 737, 747, Jet Ranger and I flew in an early Airbus simulator, I actually brought that pig down on my first try! (My second, not so much! All souls were lost!) They had a place for an instructor or test administrator to sit back in the back and they would throw challenging situations at actual commercial pilots to see how they handled it. From bird-strikes to decompression, to smoke in the cabin! As long as it was there to be completed, if it was working at all, employees were invited to come in and put some hours on them to help to debug them. Half of the time the motion systems would not be ready to go but it didn't matter. You were fully immersed, where every switch was there and had a function. No Ctrl+E to autostart the engines! The only time I ever had an issue was while testing a Bell Ranger, I was really suspending my belief and my stomach was doig things and 1500 feet above a populated area, the tail rotor system glitches and I went into an uncontrollable flat spin, at hover! It kept going faster and faster until the motion systems went into "screw this" mode, but the simulation was still in the spin. I was about to throw up when the guy manning the system shut it down and I gclimbed out green in the gills. I had found a bug! It felt like I had one as well!

[@martinlaubner]

Nice! :)

[@coolbloknaba806]

Fantastic! 👍

[@willdarling1]

Perfectly level flying is the supreme challenge of the scale model pilot.

[@captainr8413]

wow i love this man

[@firstcapt75]

Amazing bro!

[@LyndaWhite-ju1gj]

OMG I loved the 1:23 mark the fastest climbing 172 on the planet.

[@georgeforall]

Enjoyed!

[@nz_planespotter4013]

This is super cool

[@islandmonusvi]

Very kool...a dream come true....although those noisy actuators are irksome requiring a good headset. I was taught to avoid turning during an engine off glide ...too many things can go wrong...good job.👍🏼

[@adelaideboeing737project4]

Very nice

[@JackM101]

Great video and simulator

[@koblyha]

I love it !

[@MCHFacts]

This is pretty badass! Man I wish I was rich like these guys.

[@jom0bx189]

MCHFacts dude what the hell, I see you everywhere I go on KZbin, and twitter, we must be interested in the same stuff.

[@cosmicacorn]

Flight Sim Joe He's the flight sim warrior.

[@nicolasmagnussen6923]

Wondering if that thing cost the same as a real one

[@IkarosCanFly]

It doesn't cost that much, just look at the computer hes using. If this guy was rich I doubt he would be using a POS computer.

[@jotube6147]

MCHFacts fuck yea, money make u alive, like our normal ppl just go thru life waiting to die.

[@rubensalphajunior]

Awesome

[@sqlb3rn]

Beautiful day for an ultralight flight.

[@AlbertoPirrotta]

Super realistic !!!

[@wiso2759]

great job.....

[@sayeedat]

😍😍😍😍 OMG this is so good men

[@CharonSin]

That is really impressive. Even in the video you almost forget it is a sim.

[@michae8jackson378]

Very well done! I'm a retired airline pilot. I now work for FlightSafety International. We are the worlds largest flight training company and this SIM is just like our multi million dollar versions! Nice!

[@AlbertoPirrotta]

GREAT FSX !!!!

[@josecoss5897]

very cool .

[@Whitesp44]

Love to have this.

[@misturarica7519]

OMG, that is awesome. It must be an amazing feeling to fly that thing, and to be rich. :D

[@frankiemae1302]

Cool!

[@user-oe5om2zw2r]

wah...... lovely

[@user-rf4vc7mt4d]

This is going to be so nice on FS2020

[@mfxx6843]

Wow, with the new Microsoft flight simulator 2020, this thing is going to look like real flying

[@robertnicpon]

Cheaper to buy a 172. :) Great work with the sim, guys!!!

[@chikendagr8994]

A used 172. Not including maintenance or a license.

[@ekjas_siket]

this is safer

[@justinsimmons1493]

@@ekjas_siket No. It's really not. He has just as good of a chance of this thing malfunctioning and killing him as crashing a real 172.

[@ekjas_siket]

@@justinsimmons1493 how he get kill from that height?

[@justinsimmons1493]

@@ekjas_siket He could fall out and be crushed. Get trapped in a fire. Get electrocuted. None of those are likely but neither is crashing in a real 172

[@richrenwick3123]

I would love to have one

[@rcac1023]

Great University project and cool that the students were able to accomplish it, but it would have been more impressive with a wrap-around display say a 220' screen.

[@railway197240]

WoooooW ! I am also a student pikot in USA. I wanna this one!

[@luiggimondoli]

Some serious money right there

[@arcadia5607]

Imagine this bad boy with Flight Simulator 2020

[@SonofthewindsInc]

wow !

[@thedonato2053]

Epico

[@AlbertoPirrotta]

WOW !!!!

[@javacup912]

Nice sim, though the 6DOF is overkill, still nice. I think XPlane visuals are better than FSX. For more serious training, I would black out the surroundings, and doors on. Wish I had any sim back in the 80's when I started flying. Today, I fly and maintain the multimillion dollar airline kind. Great job, and thanks for sharing.

[@Lucky7Wolfin]

Classy step up to the flight sim. An old pallet cut in two. No expense spared.

[@albertosilva3509]

WINDOWS: An error has occurrend. To stay alive: Use parachute....hehehehe

[@dhimasrega4617]

cool

[@flybobbie1449]

When you think the old Link trainers used bellows. I wonder if car lifting air bags and a cheap compressor could be used. I built a two axis motion sim, but abandoned it after a while as it did not feel realistic. In realty you don't feel lean when turning in flight and only extreme pitch up or down do you notice pitch. Most important is the vertical sensation. Also in real flight i notice seat movement more than airframe movement. My body moves relative to the cabin interior. Just make seat move up or down a few centimetres, in fact just mount seat on springs.

[@dieselrotor]

Martin: Finally done and working great ! Microsoft: Awe that's neat, well here's FS 2020 - Start over !

[@gpz550a2]

60k and two bits of timber to keep the side screens steady and a stack of pallets to climb in it... 🤔 I'd still like one though!

[@yafatana]

I have 12 dollars and 99 cents left in my card can I try this for only 2 minutes ?

[@martinlaubner]

The problem will be to find a flight to Germany for 12.99 dollars.

[@holetoanotheruniverse4690]

+Suedharzeisenbahnfan Ich fahr schnell rüber ;D

[@beyondthestars4299]

just $13 -_-

[@juliogalindo5227]

Beyond The Stars n

[@chef9322]

Ich hab noch nen 10er , wie lange dürfte ich denn? ^^

[@squeakyseagull2771]

Apply roll pressure into the wind on takeoff to compensate for crosswind

[@raymondtendau2749]

Just like a treadmill, it gives you a whole lot of exercise but does not take you anywhere. 😀

[@ryanbaircraftmechanicandsm7524]

Sweet. Where do you get one of these and what is usually the price range for one?

[@alexcarton3361]

This video is excellent for GCSE Digital Technology Students.

[@socalpilotjin3720]

Wow. .

[@Kron1K_]

Awesome setup, cant even keep the c172 on the RW :'D

[@martinlaubner]

You are right my friend. The problem is, that it is quite different to real-life flying, because there is no control loading system. Especially the rudder is very sensitive in the sim because you also control the nose wheel with the pedals but you lack the force feedback you have in a real C172. Other Pilots who flew with the sim, had the same difficulties. In a real aircraft I have no problems maintaining centerline direction. But to be honest, I don't fly in real thunderstorms ;-)

[@Kron1K_]

Me and all my un-educated comments :P The C172 seems to be harder to taxi than most planes anyway. I can taxi a 777 easier than a c172 hahah. I have only sim experience though, I have no idea if its like this in real life. Thanks for taking the time to reply :) Once again, amazing setup! :)

[@ayshasiddikaeite1105]

Best

[@blackberrygnu9385]

Wow Amzing again Martin , would love to come see it , Germany ?

[@austinopry]

Woah

[@sa.alskran5211]

Hey, great video for a beautiful man on the flight - Question Can I ask you how much the planet costs, how much hydraulic systems generally cost, how much it costs in full and where are you from? ☺️ Is it possible to visit you after the Crohn's disease is gone, thank you🌹

[@fernandosalas8589]

I remember one time on fsx I was landing on 04L at JFK on a CLS B747 as I was about 100' to touch down suddenly a wind gust pushed me to the right had to abort landing immediately or I would've ended up on the grass then screen would show crash. Then went around and same gust was there but I was prepared.

[@ph11p3540]

Stick it on a giant 8 ton industrial robot arm so it can twirl you around at different angles. It will simulate the violent motions of a jet fighter. It would make an extreme thrill ride as well as a super imersive flight Sim station.

[@mantruck2k96]

Awesome FMS. I would like to say though you should not be training for this type of flying as your flight planning skills (weather) should have revealed to you not to go up. I realize we get surprised by weather at times, but when in doubt turn about and don't get tempted unless you like living on the edge. Just had to throw that out there for those on the edge. Calm blue skies to all.

[@anthonymiller7992]

I noticed that it stays level during a climb or decent. Nor tilts left and right. It's still cool though but I think it needs some firmware mods to make it more realistic

[@speedbirdifly]

Could you please explain how and what additional hardware to buy along with the SEW Eurodrive 6DOF Motion Platform (any model no.? etc.) and how did you integrate it with TRC software? Thank you.

[@Glow6703]

You should keep a cross hanging over the dashboard in that thing. Just for safety.

[@gemster18]

I'm trying to figure out how we got those rain effects on the windscreen? I've played FSX for years and I never was able to get that even with high-end hardware?

[@whomitmayconcern]

He is running in 2-d visuals, press W on FSX, stay out of the virtual cockpit, and you will have those droplets.

[@OoavastoO]

7:55 Did anyone else get more than a little anxious when he simulated that engine failure? I mean the whole sim even creaks and bounces like I imagine a real plane would in this type of situation. JFC! That was terrifying!

[@bigc208]

Did you engineer and built this yourself? I know you can buy the TRC setup off the shelf but not yet seen an affordable 6degree of freedom setup for home simulators. Where did you get the equipment? Is there a plan out there to replicate your setup?

[@kermitje1]

Hi Martin , do you have building plans for the moving platform , like to know what you have used for aluminium struts and connections, I have 6 servo with actuators regards Hen

[@ScottRothsroth0616]

I did not know of this sim’s existence.

[@lordquiles2858]

with an envy opinion, you should align your monitors or view, align your horizona to be in the middle of the fist roll of gauges is going to be similar to real. and other this is use a wrap screen other than monitor, you will feel the imersion

[@mitsoswu]

Hey, what happens if you run "out of memory ? .... Does it kick you out of your seat automatically or something ?!

[@hendrikknoops6834]

mitsoswu i

[@nothsim]

Any updated videos on this? What does DOT think of it?

[@d_youknit6468]

Such a nice tidy, simple and relatively compact design. What's the chances on some more specs on the actuator set-up? please.

[@d_youknit6468]

The motion side of thing I should add. The fuselage and cockpit look pretty intense.

[@evanhill110]

Hi, I'm designing my own Diamond DA62 simulator and was just wondering what size screens you have on your setup.

[@ekjas_siket]

the next upgrade is to integrate the display onto the plane panel

[@TheLucasHiggins]

Those runway lights tho

[@janjyotsoora3791]

Wow that is some good work mate. I am working on a 737 simulator and I am about half way done. But that is some impressive work.

[@carismaticul]

Hi, where did you learn all the stuff you know, wiring, software pc, how to connect them to everything to make it work, because i am really interested to learn.

[@GABELIO1]

How much did you spent for the full system.? The motion accessory is on the market?

[@HDCairnsAviation]

good ol fsx

[@kudacuda4350]

I can imagine this, with VR on MFS 2020 😀😀

[@jeremiasarqueza14]

Its good if have both side a big electric fan 😁

[@TheNiallharris]

what weather engine are you using to create fog like that? I'm using ASN, I think this will be a great addition to my sim

[@martinlaubner]

That's just the normal FSX weather

[@kellingc]

Nice landing after that simulated engine failure. Neat machine.

[@martinlaubner]

Chris Kelling Thank you :)

[@benj1238]

How do you get the dials and gauges to work with the sim?

[@smudge0356]

That was some pretty good flying dood, 'SPECT! Am I correct in thinking the big red plug at the start is a Three-Phase electrical supply? If so, here in the UK, Three-Phase is usually 400VAC 50Hz. is it the same in Germany?

[@martinlaubner]

Yes, it is the same.