Wrapping up my hook lever design, with final dimensions and shapes tidied up…. One day when the 3d printer is quiet I’ll *finally* print this 🙂
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Researching, Building and Flying the TA-4k Skyhawk Simulator
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A productive evening
It started with the aviation headset project, and just kept rolling along this evening! After building and testing the MIC adaptor I mounted the finished unit in the
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Gratuitous Knob Shot….
3D designed in Fusion 360, sent off to Shapeways to print, and delivered to my mailbox 🙂 This was just a test, next I’ll upload all the knob
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Now for some stimulating reading!
After having the TA-4k flight manual for a while now I *finally* got the pilot checklist printed! A5 clear pockets, some rings to bind them together and I
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Hook Lever for the Skyhawk
Fusion 360 is a fantastic CAD/CAM package… I designed this up in about 10 minutes, sliced it in Simplify3D and printed it. The result is pretty good,
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Flight Data Recorder
Well, more of a track recorder, but you get the idea. Each flight in the TA-4k sim records a kml file, which is viewable in Google Earth. This
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New throttle arrived
After years (literally years!) of searching I finally found, and bought a Suncom Throttle for my sim. This is a dual throttle modelled on the F-15E, but
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Fleet Update
It’s been a while, but very soon the TA-4, Arrow and Canterbury will all be in the same geographic location…. After almost 3 months Canterbury is almost home,
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TA-4k Flight Manual
A tip on facebook led me to a purchase of a T/A-4K Kahu Skyhawk Flight Manual. I’ve been looking for one for years, and with the departure of
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‘Skyhawk Don’ Comes to visit
Don Sims, co-author of “Skyhawks”, kiwi skyhawk guru, and long time supporter of my projects visited the sim, and made some very nice remarks about it on social