i think if you could transmit a near 180 degree spherical view, and then when you turn your head just show slightly different parts of the view. that would be cool. no need for a tilting camera of any kind
@@22Tech you would have to have something with good graphic power on it to process all that in realtime. It's possible just going to be complex to configure that. Unless some one has already done it.
@@DesertFernwehthere are ready to use sets, it's a transmitter on your goggles, wich talks to a reciver for that, or flight controller or so. Than you only need two servos for the gimbal on the camera. And I mean when they can build such a nice simulator chair, this can't be a problem.
That's crazy ! You should definitely put a vibration generator that increases in frequency with the throttle so it sends sounds and vibration through the metal structure making it very realistic !
With a castor oil and petrol soaked rag attached to the fan and a bb gun firing bb's at your dome to simulate bug splats. Some IC engine noise would really help with immersion too.
@@bubblezovlove7213 whoa. You have a cool idea there. You hang it from the ceiling, and then you put a big weight at the bottom so it's fairly stable when the controls are level. But then you move the weight around below you by moving the controls. This not only adds weight to the controls but would also tilt the aircraft around in regards to the controls.
This is not a new idea, turning damaged fuselages into simulators. Used to control R/C, I'm sure someone must have tried it, but that's less common. I'm glad they're doing it though. It'll be interesting to see how they accomplish "full motion."
ahh the arrow with TWIN 2k jets ... and an airsoft gun ... or a paint ball shooter from the weapons bay lol ... and of course dont forget the Maple leaf on the wings ...
Anyway to set it up like a racing simulator, add head tracking? This is already amazing, love how you're channel is pushing the limits and sharing it all.
"...So I sold it to our dear friend Peter, and I also got his Aerolite 103..." That wouldn't happen to be Peter Sripol's identical-looking Aerolite 103, would it?
A cool addition could be adding altimeter and gyro sensors into the planes, with matching meters displayed in fpv, since it looks like altitude especially could be a little tricky to guage in fpv!
You guys just continue to be so awesome in what you dream up. This Old Man from North Carolina always been following since almost day 1. Love your videos. ✈️😎💝
Your team has done a kickass job on the cockpit so far, love to see it evolve, just need to finish the full on motion control, curious if you'll include an hd monitor to use with the DJI video . Ill definitely have to transport mine out to the next Flite Fest just to have head to head foamboard carnage!
Cool Project! I purchased that Kitfox 2 from Peter Sripol and should have it airworthy by the end of the year if I can finally get my registration back from the FAA (They were several months behind due to covid when I submitted all the documents to them)
I've been watching this channel since the vlogging days, and I love how much you guys have grown. I was planning to go to FliteFest last weekend, but sadly I had other plans then. I fully support your channel, and I hope to come visit you guys at Edgewater soon. Currently I am in the middle of my very first scratch build, the Swappable Spitfire. Once I finish it, I plan to come up all the way from Alabama to fly it for the first time with you guys! Enjoying the content, keep inspiring people like me to change the world. Love you guys!
In the decade of the 90s there were three or four Bars around the south San Francisco Bay that featured "Flight Simulators" for the customers. Each location had only four to six fully-enclosed units, so you sat with your buds at the bar or in a booth awaiting your turn, fortifying self with courage from a stein or bottle. The monitors were top notch for the time, graphics certainly as good as any Silicon Graphics or Sun Microsystems monitors I had worked with in the games industry...likely less expensive. You could choose from several battle scenarios, including carrier launches & trap landings. But for some reason, whoever designed the simulator BOX, placed the monitors down just beyond your toe tips. Maybe they worked out that drunken customers would get their greasy, ketchup-stained fingers on the monitors and mess up the screens. At home I had a couple of macs with just a mouse and a wacom tablet for personal projects and a few games. But I knew folks who'd bought steering wheels and foot pedals for racing games. One day I walked into an Army-Navy Surplus store in San Jose, and saw a Navy fighter jet EJECTION SEAT for under $400. I almost bought the thing on the spot. *_TEMPTATION._* I had to turn around and exit the store. But I knew I could NEVER EVER again make fun of someone else's extravagant hobby spending...
I was thinking about this... you'd really need to do a LOT of work to make this happen, but it is totally possible. There may be some hacky options, like having a second set of motors/cables that apply the countering force, but you're really getting into "closed-loop" control mechanisms if you want to achieve that, and that makes everything expensive. It's why most small scale CNC machines use stepper motors and 'dead reckoning', while the big boys use servos with closed-loop control mechanisms (i.e. systems that ask, "I applied X input, did I achieve the desired output? If not, increase input." Humans do this with their brains, but machines do this with a lot of seemingly-ancillary parts. The good news is that all this can live on the ground and shouldn't increase the weight of the plane. Adding wind instruments (i.e. pitot tube) to the model could help with realism, but between GPS, gyros, accs, throttle, altitude, etc, you should be able to dial things in for good realism.
Gotta make some kind of fpv camera rig that moves when you turn or tilt your head left/right/up/down. Maybe even put control instruments display (airspeed, elevation, direction... ect) in the plane then you can look down and actually use them
Definitely a sim-pit (simulator cockpit) or a sim-pod. Although, to really step it up, you gotta add a pan-tilt mechanism for the camera. It doesn't feel right unless I can look around and see the whole world around me.
Hell you guys could trhow a small motor and some wheels and drive that thing to wherever you are using it. Also it would be nuts if you attached a head tracker and used a 360 cam for the plane
Once you fit a screen onto the fuse you won't need those skewers...I was all in until the skewers...a nice screen would complete the build and need I say, 3 wrap around screens with 3 fvp air units mounted under the wings for the left and right views from the cockpit. You'll need 3 DJI recievers to run to the respective screens but think of the immersion
Its the SimFox! If I bring my 1/4 scale Tri Pacer to Edgewater, can we fly it with this? That would be so cool!
that one's good
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With a Headtracker it would be more perfect. But it's really really nice done!
That would be 👌🏻
How would that even work?
i think if you could transmit a near 180 degree spherical view, and then when you turn your head just show slightly different parts of the view. that would be cool. no need for a tilting camera of any kind
@@22Tech you would have to have something with good graphic power on it to process all that in realtime. It's possible just going to be complex to configure that. Unless some one has already done it.
@@DesertFernwehthere are ready to use sets, it's a transmitter on your goggles, wich talks to a reciver for that, or flight controller or so. Than you only need two servos for the gimbal on the camera.
And I mean when they can build such a nice simulator chair, this can't be a problem.
That's crazy ! You should definitely put a vibration generator that increases in frequency with the throttle so it sends sounds and vibration through the metal structure making it very realistic !
Check out my homemade cockpit
Question. Has like any company approached you like with an offer to manufacture any of your builds?
Brilliant! You guys are so dedicated, especially Dave. Saw his FT tattoo peeking out under his sleeve. Job security ??? 🤣🤣🤣
That is actually his only tattoo, and I'm going to make sure David sees this comment
Maybe at a fan that is linked to the trottle to simulate the windspeed.
haha I like this, plus a windshield washer nozzle aimed at you for when you hit rain. haha.
You mean add?
Edit: also throttle?
With a castor oil and petrol soaked rag attached to the fan and a bb gun firing bb's at your dome to simulate bug splats.
Some IC engine noise would really help with immersion too.
Build a platform so the cockpit is not on the floor, just about chair hight.
If/when they go full motion it'll be up higher
I'd hang it from an A frame...
@@bubblezovlove7213 whoa. You have a cool idea there.
You hang it from the ceiling, and then you put a big weight at the bottom so it's fairly stable when the controls are level. But then you move the weight around below you by moving the controls.
This not only adds weight to the controls but would also tilt the aircraft around in regards to the controls.
@@TravisFabel That would be sick 🔥👍✌️
Great build! I’ve seen a few other FPV “simulator” setups, but none that used an actual airframe.
The market for damaged kit airframes is about to change.
This is not a new idea, turning damaged fuselages into simulators. Used to control R/C, I'm sure someone must have tried it, but that's less common.
I'm glad they're doing it though. It'll be interesting to see how they accomplish "full motion."
Love ittt. Well worth the wait
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Insanely cool!
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Damn. I couldn't be more jealous. What a show!
Dave, you are an awesome addition to the Flite Test family.
The “SPNW” (Single Place No Wing) Sim Chair is incredible!!!
That looked like sooo much fun!
That was super cool. The landing wasn’t too bad either. Great job guys.
16:35 Product Placement on point!!
I've watched a TON of your videos, but this may be the coolest thing you guys have done.
hi, any chance of you making a giant model of the avro vulcan? I would love to see the huge delta wing flying over the golf course
ahh the arrow with TWIN 2k jets ... and an airsoft gun ... or a paint ball shooter from the weapons bay lol ... and of course dont forget the Maple leaf on the wings ...
Anyway to set it up like a racing simulator, add head tracking? This is already amazing, love how you're channel is pushing the limits and sharing it all.
The subtitles keep calling it the "Kit Box" I quite like the name.
What you give kids with active imaginations
new way to enjoy an RC Plane, awesome
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I'm really excited about this! I love any videos that have o do with your FPV chair
This is awesome
Wow super cool
Absolutely wild project. So cool.
Super 👍🤘 i love planes.
Great build, can hardly wait to see it morph!
FPV cockpit for the win!
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Love from Pakistan
Great job guys. I like the name "the FPV Cockpit." Keep up the great creative build.
"...So I sold it to our dear friend Peter, and I also got his Aerolite 103..."
That wouldn't happen to be Peter Sripol's identical-looking Aerolite 103, would it?
I think it is yes
wow i didn't even catch that. that should make for some fun videos from peter!
Peter actually used to be a part of the fire test crew back in the old days of the channel so most likely yes.
Microsoft Flight Simulator's next update
I am loving this project!
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What an incredible project! What was wrong with the original airframe to prevent a restoration to flight?
FpV cockpit obviously!
Speakers and vibrations would be great
THIS Should Be A MUST In RC Competitions.. :)
That looks awesome! Can’t wait till the freedom fox comes back!
"Kit Box", Absolutely!
It is not possible to put a string in front of the cam, same as on "real" a/c? So you see if you are flying "clean"?
words
A marriage made in heaven...home made cockpit..VR glasses..RC airplane.. way to GO!!!
dude, i love all your videos, but this one was AWESOME
The build looks like how I like to have fun. Knocked it out of the park again!
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Wow crazy you guys rock. You could do a cockpit like that but for a paramotor and fly an RC paramotor that would be awesome!!
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Wow!
Dude just blew my freakin mind @6:59 !!
flite test is amazing
Great job guys, good clean fun 👍
Great episode guys!
Please make a monster series F4 Phantom RC at some point soon!
A cool addition could be adding altimeter and gyro sensors into the planes, with matching meters displayed in fpv, since it looks like altitude especially could be a little tricky to guage in fpv!
You guys just continue to be so awesome in what you dream up. This Old Man from North Carolina always been following since almost day 1. Love your videos. ✈️😎💝
FPV Cockpit, or FPVCP. The Kitfox Box, Crash Chair, thats all I got for now
Love the flags on the wall! Is there a Space Force flag?
Noah looked like he was enjoying riding in the frame while y'all were bring it to the shop.
I love ur vids
The Flite Tester....awesome video and great idea
Your team has done a kickass job on the cockpit so far, love to see it evolve, just need to finish the full on motion control, curious if you'll include an hd monitor to use with the DJI video . Ill definitely have to transport mine out to the next Flite Fest just to have head to head foamboard carnage!
Check out my homemade cockpit
Cool Project! I purchased that Kitfox 2 from Peter Sripol and should have it airworthy by the end of the year if I can finally get my registration back from the FAA (They were several months behind due to covid when I submitted all the documents to them)
Fantastic!!!
Amazing! You guys rock as usual!
The KitSim!
I see a FPV Laser Battle in the Future...! I'm going with Tragedy Chair...!
universal studios in Florida might have some ideas. this is so awesome!
You should implement the head movement to change the view of the camera. So you can look to the left and right (up and down)
I've been watching this channel since the vlogging days, and I love how much you guys have grown. I was planning to go to FliteFest last weekend, but sadly I had other plans then. I fully support your channel, and I hope to come visit you guys at Edgewater soon. Currently I am in the middle of my very first scratch build, the Swappable Spitfire. Once I finish it, I plan to come up all the way from Alabama to fly it for the first time with you guys! Enjoying the content, keep inspiring people like me to change the world. Love you guys!
There's a rumor going around that they got the airframe on the cheap from whistling deisel
Josh - I want one of the shirts you're wearing - "I Made This" - Are they available anywhere?
It will be up in our new store very shortly :-)
I always wanted to do that with a RC plain .so cool.
You guys ROCK👍👍👍👍👍
next step is to make it a full motion cockpit! This is so cool as is tho, I would love to have one.
Very kool project great job guys air2 s army out
Awesome Dave! This was an incredible episode.
A motion master version will be awesome
See now this is a good FPV idea
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Awesome guys
Hellooo!!!
Can you please do an A-10 Warthog vs A-10 Warthog dogfight? (The one with the bb machine guns in it?)
That would be SICK!!!!
LOVE U GUYS!!
Wow very nice.
you guys could take it to the next level with head tracking!!!!
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How hard would it be to swap the FPV cam with a 360° cam so you can look around with the headset? That would be awesome.
Yea, that’s a good idea
When you guys get this thing done you should put a Rumble pack behind the seats to give you a feel of crashing LOL
In the decade of the 90s there were three or four Bars around the south San Francisco Bay that featured "Flight Simulators" for the customers. Each location had only four to six fully-enclosed units, so you sat with your buds at the bar or in a booth awaiting your turn, fortifying self with courage from a stein or bottle. The monitors were top notch for the time, graphics certainly as good as any Silicon Graphics or Sun Microsystems monitors I had worked with in the games industry...likely less expensive. You could choose from several battle scenarios, including carrier launches & trap landings.
But for some reason, whoever designed the simulator BOX, placed the monitors down just beyond your toe tips. Maybe they worked out that drunken customers would get their greasy, ketchup-stained fingers on the monitors and mess up the screens.
At home I had a couple of macs with just a mouse and a wacom tablet for personal projects and a few games. But I knew folks who'd bought steering wheels and foot pedals for racing games.
One day I walked into an Army-Navy Surplus store in San Jose, and saw a Navy fighter jet EJECTION SEAT for under $400. I almost bought the thing on the spot.
*_TEMPTATION._* I had to turn around and exit the store. But I knew I could NEVER EVER again make fun of someone else's extravagant hobby spending...
Awesome! It would be really cool to use airspeed telemetry data to dynamically adjust the resistance of the controls.
I was thinking about this... you'd really need to do a LOT of work to make this happen, but it is totally possible. There may be some hacky options, like having a second set of motors/cables that apply the countering force, but you're really getting into "closed-loop" control mechanisms if you want to achieve that, and that makes everything expensive. It's why most small scale CNC machines use stepper motors and 'dead reckoning', while the big boys use servos with closed-loop control mechanisms (i.e. systems that ask, "I applied X input, did I achieve the desired output? If not, increase input." Humans do this with their brains, but machines do this with a lot of seemingly-ancillary parts. The good news is that all this can live on the ground and shouldn't increase the weight of the plane. Adding wind instruments (i.e. pitot tube) to the model could help with realism, but between GPS, gyros, accs, throttle, altitude, etc, you should be able to dial things in for good realism.
That is absolutely insanly awesome You guys are great Love it 🔥👍✌️
To make motion control you can hook up the control inputs to a gimbal system. That would give you feedback and turn the airplane at the same time
I would be possible to put monitors on the side and change the FPV camera setup with two on the side. Future upgrade?
You guys have Amazing videos
I hope they are paying you well for all of that product placement Josh!
I love this. I want to fly in it!
Put it on rockers and call it the “Yeehaw seesaw” 🤣
Gotta make some kind of fpv camera rig that moves when you turn or tilt your head left/right/up/down. Maybe even put control instruments display (airspeed, elevation, direction... ect) in the plane then you can look down and actually use them
This thing definitely needs head tracking!!!
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Definitely a sim-pit (simulator cockpit) or a sim-pod.
Although, to really step it up, you gotta add a pan-tilt mechanism for the camera. It doesn't feel right unless I can look around and see the whole world around me.
Awesomeness
1min in and already awesome!!!!!!
real feel fpv......closest thing to the real thing.....that be the motto
Hell you guys could trhow a small motor and some wheels and drive that thing to wherever you are using it. Also it would be nuts if you attached a head tracker and used a 360 cam for the plane
You guy's should do a full 280 degree screen set up with it. Have the door to get in go up or out like a plane door with the screen in it.
Lowe's must be the sponser. :) If not, big plug for Lowe's
Once you fit a screen onto the fuse you won't need those skewers...I was all in until the skewers...a nice screen would complete the build and need I say, 3 wrap around screens with 3 fvp air units mounted under the wings for the left and right views from the cockpit. You'll need 3 DJI recievers to run to the respective screens but think of the immersion
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fpvs should be the name i think it sounds great