Welcome!
In this website you can read about the various flight simulator enhancement experiments I have undertaken over the years. For a quick start, you can click the pictures below, or read the various chapters listed on the left side one by one. Enjoy!
After 2 years of absence, we are all looking forward to this years FSWeekend!
Of course I will be present again with my motion cockpit, with some new tweaks
and challenges. Hope to see you there!
New to FSWeekend? See this
promo video from a few years back!
Last Updates:
 | January 2022: Added a Digital Dividing Head section to the Building a Lathe and Mill page. |
| December 2020: Added the Building a Lathe and Mill page. |
| November 2019: FSweekend 2019 video can be seen here. Another great event! I had installed a Carrier landing and take-off addon, please see this video. |
| October 2019: For building a new actuator, I needed a lathe. So I build my own DIY Lathe! |
| September 2019: FSweekend 2018 was again a great event, many old friends and newcomers: see the video |
| September 2018: FSweekend 2018 is coming again! Some new tweaks to the rigs will be shown. |
| October 2017: FSweekend 2017 is approaching! A new machine and FSX for demo! |
| October 2015: Added a video presentation of the Motion Cockpit |
| January 2015: Updated DIY Motion Platform V page |
| October 13, 2013: Updated BFF Shaker System page. |
| September 1, 2013: Made a video of the linear actuator design. |
| Jun 22: Added BFF Shaker System page with new vibration tutorial video |
| Jun 1, 2013: Added new DIY Motion Platform V page and Mechanical Components V page |
| Feb 17, 2013: Added new 6DoF idea on New Ideas page. |
| Feb 10, 2013: Updated Electrical Drive IV page |
| Dec 16, 2012: Added Electrical Drive IV page |
| Nov 8, 2012: Added FSWeekend 2012 page with video and pictures |
| Oct 30, 2012: added video of Force Feedback Yoke II |
| Oct 14, 2012: Updated DIY Motion Platform IV page with FSweekend 2012 info |
| Oct 14, 2012: Added Cockpit Lighting page |
| Sep 23, 2012: Added Force Feedback Yoke II page. |
| Sep 22, 2012: Added MS Sidewinder Forcefeedback2 hack page |
| Nov 14, 2011: updated FSWeekend 2011 page |
| Nov 9, 2011: Added FSWeekend 2011 video |
| Nov 9, 2011: Added Instrument Panel Module page, updated Flight Yoke II |
| Aug 17, 2011: Got side tracked with some R/C project: Guppy Foam Glider. |
| Feb 15, 2011: Added Electric Elevator Trim page. |
| Jan 16, 2011: Added new pages: Multi-Monitor with TH2Go, Alternative Transducer Constructions Updated pages: Software Enhancements, Motion Platform, New Ideas , 3LCD's with 3 Fresnel Lenses |
| Dec 26, 2010: New tutorial video on 3 LCD's and 3 Fresnel lenses and instrument panel display |
| Nov 21, 2010: Added Rudder Pedals IV page |
| Nov 15, 2010: Added 3 LCD's and 3 Fresnel lenses page in visuals section, and updated Modular Simpit. |
| Nov 14, 2010: Added new pages Flight Yoke and Throttle Quadrant |
| Nov 2, 2010: Added generation IV
motion cockpit video |
Building a lathe and mill
Visuals
Motion Platform
Simpit
Flight stick
Tactile Transducers
Software enhancements and screen shots
Real simulator