Originally posted by Lancman
Hey, anyone who’s been to Hendon in more recent years has already ‘flown’ a JP!!!

Or am I the only one to admit to sitting in that thing and wiggling the stick about a bit?! 😀

Guilty, my son too! Bit tight if you’re 6’2″.

It would be even easier now, with cheap USB joysticks available. Recently I bought a USB joystick from Curry’s for 9.99 (PC Line is the brand, but looks very like a Saitek Cyborg). Anyway, all you would have to do is take it apart and use one of the potentiometers on the pedals, using an extended cable to connect it back to the joystick’s innards. Plug it in and configure it as your second joystick, and assign the rudder operation to the required axis. Sounds much more complicated than it really is.
You could use the other pots in the same way, to make levers for mixture and prop rpm. I found r/c model pushrods and bellcranks useful for connecting the controls to the potentiometers.

Using this method I built a setup using these pedals, a Hunter throttle and a Canberra control column. Worked great but I didn’t really have the room for it so only the pedals are left!

I put the throttle in the raffle at the DX meet, BlueRobin now has it. Here’s the stick:

yes 🙂

you can make some..

fairly easily, with a pot and some wire, and somewhere to put your feet..

These I made a few years ago, and they’re still going strong (my feet are resting on them right now:p )

Canberra pedals I picked up at the Tangmere Aerojumble.

That was my point! I think a bit more dough is in order. They’re asking for lots of organisational, management and PR skills, as well as (preferably) piloting and ATC experience, all for less than a mediocre middle manager in an insurance company is getting (I see them every day….).:rolleyes:

I missed seeing it fly this year, but did take a good look at the meet. I’ll have to make sure I see it next year – especially if it outperforms a Bearcat! Sounds scary.