What Does My Simulator Look Like? 2024 SimulaTOUR | C172 #50

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[@WeponizedAutism]

this dude may have had the best glow up of all time

[@centaurixon]

The fact that you are making physical gauges instead of using a display behind is making your project outstanding! Really really cool!!!

[@CaptainBobSim]

Thank you! I really enjoy getting in the weeds with how the instruments actually work :)

[@Blue_Bed]

I cannot thank you enough. You are the one who helped me use my arduino uno and Lego (no 3d printer lol) to make a throttle instead of spending 220 dollars on a thrustmaster one. I owe my sanity and wallet to you thank you so much

[@CaptainBobSim]

I'm so glad that you found the videos useful! That is very smart to use Lego, they're what got me into building things :)

[@CB-RADIO-UK]

I think its great that you are making it all from scratch. Keep going.

[@CaptainBobSim]

It is pretty fun to look back at! It takes soo much more time but I think it's more fun :)

[@mcjnmc]

I rarely comment anything, but Your channel deserves milion subs, very good idea to build Your own flight instruments :) Greets from Poland!

[@CaptainBobSim]

Thank you very much for your complement! I hope you are enjoying the channel, and wish you the best of luck on your flight sim journey if you ever decide to make one!

[@mohzoheir]

Excellent work Bob, you’re inspiring young man, keep it up

[@larrysouthern5098]

FANTASTIC BUILD PROJECT!!! DIY is the BEST!! PRESS ON!!! CYA!!!

[@CaptainBobSim]

Thank you Larry!!

[@glufcz8672]

This is really cool you are doing great good luck with building

[@CaptainBobSim]

Thank you so much!

[@damnpshe2497]

Hi Trevor I’ve been watching a lot of your videos and your sim is looking crazy great right now but I was wondering if you could do a video on how you wire components like switches to the arruino to your radio Anel or other stuff like that keep up the good work though

[@CaptainBobSim]

Hello! A while ago I made a MobiFlight Crash Course, it is not very updated but hopefully that helps!

[@damnpshe2497]

@@CaptainBobSim thanks

[@theseventhplane7]

still waiting for the glareshield vidéo ;) , honestly , you are one of the best cockpit builder out there and you are really helping me a lot with my own c172 home cockpit . keep it up !

[@CaptainBobSim]

Maybe one day! I'm kinda in a holding pattern with the channel. Thank you for your kind words!

[@theseventhplane7]

@@CaptainBobSim thanks ! what's up with the channel ? r u too busy to continue ?

[@CaptainBobSim]

I made it into a business and now everything is bookkeeping and free customer support for the masses. It is more a side gig that loses money than a hobby now unfortunately. This summer I'm looking at improving that now that school is over, but have a lot of orders to churn through first.

[@theseventhplane7]

@@CaptainBobSim okay , but why did you wanted to build a sim first ? and not directly fly the cessna? i think this project is a great adventure and it's almost finished . you have all the instruments , all the radios (almost ) , you have alsmost everything to finish it . take care .

[@CaptainBobSim]

@@theseventhplane7 I'm colorblind restricted to be a pilot so that's why I started the sim :)

[@mattwurst1339]

Very nice made, that looks Super-Awesome! Enjoyed your new Video as always. Thank You!

[@CaptainBobSim]

Thank you Matt!!

[@abuassrarassrar6079]

👍very good move and interesting good luck.

[@CaptainBobSim]

Thank you!!

[@Mbrewer67]

Trevor I cannot begin to say how cool this is. Super impressive. As you know I used to fly C-172 and PA 28. So I know what the real panel looks like. Yours is an amazing replica.

[@CaptainBobSim]

Thank you so much Mark!

[@joshuamarius]

Good job! Keep going 👍

[@CaptainBobSim]

Thank you kindly!

[@crikycrocky]

Nice work on this, thanks for posting.

[@CaptainBobSim]

Thank you for watching!

[@stevenbond2891]

Great work. Been following your project now for a while and you inspired me to also create some controls for my flight simulator. I created a trim wheel that attaches to my saitek throttle system. And I have a little mini cockpit with your flaps and a gear handle. I'll be working on adding switches soon. It's just something to make the flights a little more interactive. Thank you and can't wait to see your finished cockpit. Oh and thank you for getting me into Mobiflight. It's an amazing program.

[@CaptainBobSim]

That's so awesome to hear! It's really fun to see the mini cockpits, they are so helpful and useful for flights! I'm so glad you found MobiFlight! It's such a fun tool to use :)))

[@JorisRobijn]

I love your sim, great work! I am very curious about the glare shield... Want to build something like that as well.

[@CaptainBobSim]

I think I might finally be mentally ready to attack it a second time 😂 It took so much design though and sooooo much printing time!

[@tea-and-medals-uk]

I love its analog-i-ness! Many hours of graft in there, but well worth the effort.

[@CaptainBobSim]

Thank you Paul! I agree with you, well worth the effort, and for me I enjoy building it many times more than flying it hahaha :)

[@tea-and-medals-uk]

That's why you'll make an awesome aircraft engineer! :)

[@keithryant5779]

Is that the same panel you cut out 4 years ago. It's looking slick. I'll admit, I'm a little jelly. Nice work!

[@CaptainBobSim]

It's my 3rd panel I cut out :D Thank you for the kind words! 1 - OBS covered in Duct Tape (2018-2019ish?) 2 - Single Plywood cut with hole saws and a manual router (2019-2020) 2.5 - Altimeter Motives Acrylic panel and plywood backing (2020ish?) 3 - My own design (2021ish-current)

[@djspina44]

impressive!

[@CaptainBobSim]

Thank you Dom!! How is your CFIing going?

[@djspina44]

@@CaptainBobSim Haven’t quite started yet, still working out some logistics.

[@RichGreatsuccess]

my boy. captain bob

[@shadetreehomesim]

Looks great…really hoping you do build video for VOR1 with glideslope and VOR2…those two are kicking my butt. Awesome Phineas and Ferb clip btw 🤣

[@CaptainBobSim]

They're in the works, but very unstable :)

[@andrewkrochmal6916]

nice job! wish i did something like this when i was in school (back in the stone age!). I am building my flight sim interface with AirManager and back monitor using Mega interface to rotary encoders... so far it looks great, but like the look of "real" gauges you have here... where did you get the inspiration for them? I am also building a switch panel and throttle as well... Cheers and keep up the good work!

[@CaptainBobSim]

Hi Andrew! I get the inspiration from looking at eBay images and trying to pair each instrument motion to a stepper motor. Air Manager is pretty elegant for that type of job :) I wish you the best of luck on your project - keep me posted on it! :D

[@ecdcrew]

The CSU club will bring new hands and new ideas. Very cool, congrats on starting the club - ever expanding your college CV! Did you build the glare shield? I am looking forward to that video. Impressive. ps: E.C.D Crew not EC Drew in your credits👌

[@CaptainBobSim]

I agree! It's awesome to have the club with many more brains than I have :) I did build the glare shield! It's not my proudest creation (hence the blue tape) but there are all of the files on my camera somewhere that I should probably exit together :) Thank you for the correction! I'll try to start pronouncing it right 😅

[@desert1791]

Why this project took too long ? when done are you making more for sale or just this one ?

[@CaptainBobSim]

I did the first 2 ish versions in my free time so it had no timeline whatsoever, Version 3 I really hunkered down on realism so I'll spend months on an individual gauge or avionic, sometimes redesigning the entire component up to 3 times, doing about 5-10 iterations. I'm an engineering student so I don't have as much free time as I wish I could have. I hope to sell complete units of this, but I don't want building a business to ruin the magic of sharing flight simulation with others.

[@carstenbecker1477]

Amazing Sim! Just one Question: How do you hook up the hobbs-meter (what event will trigger it going)? I'm still thinking how I will connect mine...

[@CaptainBobSim]

Hi! I'll use a custom designed MOSFET board, but you can pick up relays/MOSFET boards off the shelf. You can link them to whatever it's linked to in real life (ie master battery). I'll try and show the config sometime!

[@carstenbecker1477]

@@CaptainBobSim Thanks for your answer! Mostly my question was about to what event the Hobbs should be linked to. I asked some pilots I knew and got several different answers 🤣 Some said it's not running before the wheels leave the ground. In my oppinion it should run either when the motor is started or when the master switch is flipped... Tomorrow i will be at the airport again. Maybe I will get new infos there ;-)

[@CaptainBobSim]

@@carstenbecker1477 I think it's different for different airplanes, I'd consult the POH and see if it's in there

[@JorisRobijn]

@@carstenbecker1477 There are different hobs meters for different purposes, and some planes have multiple. For maintenance you need the flying time, that can be detected with a squat switch or airspeed switch. For some other purposes (rental) you might want the engine running time, which can be detected with an oil pressure switch. The cessnas on my flying club are unmodified and therefore have an oil pressure switch. They calculate the flying time by subtracting (estimated) idle and taxi time.

[@carstenbecker1477]

@@JorisRobijn thanks. I think I will "connect" it to the airspeed in this case.

[@AviationOrigami78]

Would this work with X-Plane 11? I’d love to try and build something similar!

[@CaptainBobSim]

It's completely compatible with both! Although I'm a little behind on the X-Plane configuration.

[@AviationOrigami78]

That’s great! Would this cost over £1000 to print myself etc?

[@pixelapse9613]

How and when did you start learn Engineering? And what is your current age?

[@CaptainBobSim]

I started in 2018 (woah! It's been 6 years) - now I'm 20 and studying Mechanical Engineering. I started just by playing around and failing a lot. I would take small steps for a while and design things the best I could until my best got better! I'm still learning and having a blast! [that is whenever the time gods give me a break]

[@callsigncarrot8742]

Flight sim club? You mean free labour?

[@CaptainBobSim]

Hi callsigncarrot! It's more of a social club, we teach soldering, design, and configuration, fly the sim, invite speakers, and bring the sim to community events. There's no required club fee and the majority is funded by me. The KZbin, Website, and Club finances are completely separated. The sim will likely go to a museum or the uni after it's finished. Everything the club designs is open source; obviously, we're assembling only on the prototype and not making production components.

[@callsigncarrot8742]

@@CaptainBobSim all joking! I am planning a 182 project when I came across your videos, huge help and inspiration for self designing the components! And I was joking with the comment above hahaha.

[@CaptainBobSim]

Sorry! I completely missed the joke😂😂 Thanks for tuning in and thank you for your kind words! Good luck on your 182!

[@miketango507]

nice job Trevor!! Iam almost same state than yours.. doing some adaptations..... thanks for all your efforts!.. soon get home ill post a pic of mine..

[@CaptainBobSim]

That's awesome! Yep - I feel like most of the work at this point is getting it all to be a clean stable system :) I can't wait for the sim picture!

[@miketango507]

@@CaptainBobSim yes, for example, afte last MFupdate.. most of my boards are no recognized. I think i have reprogram it again... like they do not save previous data. Everytime I build a guage, I tested until work and saved... now is from scratch I guess most of them lol...

[@miketango507]

@@CaptainBobSim drive.google.com/file/d/1LPGGTmlaeOf-wCqPXBeCcFmENE4L8KCs/view?usp=sharing

[@deleupas]

hi i wish to contact you to exhange about your great project ty

[@CaptainBobSim]

Hello, You can contact me at [e-mail]

[@Mbrewer67]

Trying to figure out why you chose N704CK? Thinking on it.

[@CaptainBobSim]

I chose N704CK because I wanted to have the tail number be of an airplane that's been totaled without fatalities: www.planespotters.net/airframe/boeing-747-200-n704ck-kalitta-air/rolz9r I think it's hilarious that it's a Kalitta Air 747 registration for a 172 :)