As many of you know... AGT (like all other products) dont have the electronic parts to their panels. According to AGT i need all of the following...EPIC cards Wiring harnesses Printed circuit boards (numeric LED displays are NOT mounted) Mounting screws Monitors Keyboard encoder modules Where can I get that stuff and how would i install it

Dude, I've been reading your posts over the last couple of weeks and most of your questions have been answered already in previous posts. I understand how overwhelming the amount of information that must be disseminated is to this great hobby, but please do yourself a favour and search. This Avsim Forum is a great resource if you take the time to look through it. Often, a series of posts will lead to outside resources to provide even more information... sometimes more than you wish to know.There's nothing wrong with asking questions but most of the info you seek is so readily available. You need to take the time to do your own research. That's primarily what this hobby is about. If that's too much to ask than perhaps you are seeking the wrong hobby.I'm not trying to diss you but I think you have the wrong attitude towards this hobby. If you wish to find a complete turn-key solution to a 'pit', then you should be talking to the manufacturers of all the products available and not us.I've been lurking in this forum for almost two years, and rarely ask questions. That's because there's so much info available and so many different approaches to one challenge that often the challenge is not how to do it, but deciding what is the best approach for 'you'.I'm certainly not accusing you of this but some may see your approach as lazy... an attitude that is so directly counter to what many of the great people in this hobby have put forth.I may be totally out of line here, but I can't see any other way of approaching this hobby other than what some have suggested... write a fat cheque to some of the manufacturers which I'm sure will also yield great support. The alternative is to garner all the info you can and make your 'own' informed decisions. That's just the way it is... for now anyway.

There's a lot of inspiration in wading through the simpit links and looking at others photos and seeing how they have done stuff. One good site with a LOT of stuff is www.mikesflightdeck.com - Mike has done an awesome job and gathered pretty much everything there, he has answered this question as well. Plus he has a lot of links to different sites.Another good place to do some research at is the Flightsim.com HOWTO section - a lot of cockpit stuff there.. - different approaches and different scales of projects: http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/m-howto.htmAlso, we have different backgrounds, with different facilities and tools available, so our mileage varies a lot when it comes to what can be achieved with reasonable effort. A friend of mine has a metal workshop where he works - he was kind to help me with my yoke construction and it turned out very nice. If I was to do it myself, it would have been plywood or something else - a decision dictated by the available tools I have at home. Still, the result could be fine, but the materials and tools are different. A lot of the stuff is about keeping your eyes open at the hardware store and doing a lot of outside-the-box thinking. An example is those white bread cutting boards - they make pretty OK friction pads for throttles etc.Many times there is nothing you can buy to solve a particular problem - or you might just get that clever idea that solves a problem neatly - post it here and everyone can enjoy it. That's how the forums work.The thing is, there are companies making products for pretty much everything in the cockpit - yokes, pedals etc - if you want and have enough cash you can get a readily-made cockpit from www.flypfc.com. But the same amount would likely get you a PPL and a nice bunch of rental hours on a GA plane..But making one yourself is another approach - it can turn out cheaper but you can also get sidetracked and end up doing something insanely big and well paying more.. For many the actual building process is part of the enjoyment.But yea, there's an overwhelming amount of stuff to understand at first. That's why I said originally that you should take a year for planning and prototype building, since if you start making your dream simpit now, you are going to need to tear it down many times when you realize there would be a much more clever way to solve this and that thing.. So a fellow builders advice: dont rush it, and do the research and read the forum archives and spend time reading peoples websites and learn from their mistakes. It really is worth it.And of course post your questions here if you have them, that's what the forum is about - sharing ideas and asking questions - but it's good to do the research at first since it makes everything easier when you know the different possibilities to do things - then you can pick the solution that works for you.Tuomas

Hey! I'm lazy!:) mm

I would like to echo what Toumas has said. I am a former USAF pilot with an engineering background. So I have brought a good deal of technical and flying knowledge with me. However, I am 56 years old, LOL! Most of the stuff you guys are talking about wasn