Nice video - informative and engaging, keep it up!

This is such an amazing build!! Thanks for sharing your journey

Very nice video. Love the detail. My setup is quite crude, but I have some ideas now to improve over time.

Thanks for this video. Im currently gathering the parts for my new simpit build which will be very much like yours. 2 G5s, GTN750, G500 autopilot all from Realair, the TPM plus, honeycomb Alpha and Bravo, same 48" monitor and 12" touch screen plus tablet for duet display, tablet for garmin pilot and lots more.

Amazing setup and thank you for creating this video.

great video Mr. Flight Sim Guide man!

Very amazing setup , you should check out the mixed reality build I am in the middle of , I’m sure the same concept would work great on a full scale panel like yours 👍

great video, thank you. i see some are usning Air Manager or Mobiflight. and with Air Manager do you take the PC version or Android etc versions and run on tablets

Love it!

Thanks for this expose on your setup and costs. What I would like to know is how well a home built flight sim station can translate into usable real world knowledge.

Great video!! KISS...keep it simple simulate.... 🐦

Great review. ’m considering a mixed reality VR system (Quest 3). I have an old set of GFX cards but a fast computer. Am considering a steamguage monitor, knobster, throttle quadrant, pedals, and force feedback yoke. Would like to have a cessna feel but not necessary straight away. Any thoughts on this setup ? Radios recommendation ? BTW were all your panels running off one PC (through USB hubs etc) or d9 you have a slave PC for the panels ?

Inspiring.

Good Setup. But in reality, the amount you have spent on the setup is worth for close to 100 Hrs of real-time flying 😅

Thinking about moving away from Apple/Mac after 4 decades and building a PC. What are the primary specs you have on your gaming/flight sim PC? Disregard! I guess I should have watched the entire video first! Thanks!

damn well done

Great stuff love it !

The Airmgr/knobster desktop solution is great. I was rw pilot/instructor. Hardware cockpits are 1 step better, for example real sim gear g1000, cirrus perspective, with hardware knobs, everything, but honestly, you are stuck with this g1000 setup and the cirrus. With incredible aircraft coming out frequently, for example WT G5000, why not use the flexibilty of AirManage realistic panels? When the Collins Proline or garmin g7000 comes out with new stuff, all i have to do is buy a new panel for $20-30. The AM solution is $200-300 vs inflexible, hardware home cockpits at $5000 and up. Makes sense to me, just sayin no offense. Not affiliated. Touchscreens are the future of most GA and Corporates anyways.

great setup if I have nothing do I start with computer 1st

How do you deal with needing to look over your shoulder in the sim? I've got a tiny thumbstick on the flight yoke that i can't seem to adjust the speed for so it's like i'm trying to turn my head with a neck brace on. the alternative was hop into my VR headset and lose the ability to see all my flight controls and be forced to hold the headset controllers which makes it incredibly difficult to have any physical flight controls

Sensacional.

Can you do a Cessna 152

I'd recommend buying a Brunner yoke. Yoko is a joko

Thanks for quality video. Glad to see you using flexible Air Manager/knobster desktop solution. I am not affiliated, btw. I went down the same glare shield flight deck rabbit hole. I had monitors behind etc etc. XP, AFL 172sp, etc. Honestly, as a rw pilot and instructor, you will outgrow a 172 quickly, particularly in the sim. Another solution is to just use 2 touchscreens and 1 or 2 knobsters. Specific aircraft Flight deck, hardware switches, not necessary and takes away flexibility. The upper monitors depend on system capabilities. 1 upper mon 16x9, 24x9, or 32x9 with track ir works fine. My current system is corsair vengeance 4090 i9 with 3x32" lg nano ips, 2xasus 21" touchscreens and 1 knobster, no Track IR needed. I fly mfs longitude end to end on vatsim and pilotedge. I try to fly perfect trips with checklists, startups, atc comms etc. There is a great Airmgr longitude panel $20 by sling tony. Experimentalsimavionics dot com (not affiliated)You should try it and the longitude. Flies all sids stars rnp .3 certified approachs, nosewheel steer, speedbrakes, thrust rev, advanced coupled vnav G5000 with autothrotle, retractable gear. The Airmgr panels have pfd, mfd, 3 gtc touch controllers, lights, ice, complete pedestal, standby ai, afcs autopilot. Totally resembles the real cockpit and fits on 2 touchscreens. No mice in my cockpit! My point is, after doing this for 20 years, the fascimile flight deck is cool but really isn't necessary, takes away flexibilty of diff aircraft, and will keep one from growing into bigger and better, higher and faster. I would bet a dollar if you fly this Longitude in MFS on vatsim you will find it very hard to go back to the great, but painfully slow, 172 trainer. No offense. Air manager/knobster and realistic panels is all you need. Totally immersive as well. Good luck

Id like to build a setup that will allow me to upgrade to commercial planes. Do you have suggestions?

Can we fly you out to Florida ? Build this in our home

Buy a $10,000 symulator it will be worth every penny when U sell it to upgrade. Besides your flying friends will help you pay for it with seat time. and it legal to log hours. Back in the early 70's when working on my Instrument rating my flight instructor had an OLD LINK Trainer in his basement. That was more difficult to fly than the club PA-28 140 or 235 or even the Aero Commander Darter.

Roughly the cost of 40hrs of dual instruction in a modern 172. Not bad. For training and proficiency.....these setups save more money than they cost on top of being fun. Fly safe.

Wow… my whole Cessna cockpit even with the i9/4080, 3 55 inch 4K tvs came in under half of that.

‘Merica!! Hahaha

13K! bro how much is a used plane?

PEDALS?

For anyone like me who has the Saitek/Logitech Pro Flight Yoke I recommend the "Leo Bodnar mod" (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jJxxhtF6nNqWZXU.html) which fixes the ridiculous dead zone in the pitch axis and gives much more fidelity in both axes. I also disabled both the pitch and roll "return springs" and used Silicon Grease on all areas were metal meets plastic. The results are incredible, it turns a cheap and limited yoke into a completely different monster, I was consider getting the Honeycomb Alpha but after these mods there is no need. It's just a shame there's no mod to give a full 90 degrees of rotation in the roll axis. But for £30 you'll be amazed what a few minutes of soldering will accomplish.

Where can I order the flight panel?

You could do this or for that money get your PPL and join a flight club and actually fly lol....nice setup though.

diy is bes....

Very pricey, but good and interesting video. I am nowhere near that kind of price but mine serves extremely well and I spent several years upgrading and making it better. You can see my setup on my flight sim channel www.youtube.com/@CapnJackFltSimChannel