Category: Flight Controls

All content related to control of aircraft surfaces to include rudders, yokes, trim wheels, brakes, etc.

Linked Control Columns & Loading – Part 2 – The Pitch Axis

It has been a long while since I wrote Part 1. Hard to believe. It took time to get things finished up and generally working, and then the rest of the sim had to be built back up on top of it. Throw a bit of “life happens” and dips in motivation and time just …

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Linked Control Columns & Loading – Part 1 – May the Force be with you!

โ€œTry not. Do or do not. There is no try.โ€ โ€”Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Introduction One of the things I’ve wanted for a long time is linked control columns, and it’s the last major item needed to complete my reasonable recreation of a Boeing 737-800 cockpit. In Part 1 of …

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Building a Boeing 737 Home Cockpit Rear Bulkhead

Time to start enclosing my cockpit shell with a rear bulkhead.

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Point Me in the Right Direction – Rudder Pedals

I have been lacking a couple of major components to mostly finish out the Captain side, one of which is a set of rudder pedals (the other being seats). I have a seat already, and I’m slowly getting around to refurbishing it, but I really needed rudder pedals. They are critical to flying, no matter …

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