Hi everyone,

Long-time lurker, first-time poster. I wanted to share a project my team has been working on for the past couple of years. We call it "motozolo".

It started with a crazy idea: flight sims are great, but the experience of clicking a mouse to flip a switch on the overhead panel never felt right. So we decided to buy an actual A320 cockpit section. Not a mock-up, but the real avionics, the real frames, the real wiring.

[Insert Pic 1 - The hangar with the A320 nose and scattered parts]
[Insert Pic 2 - You sitting inside the real cockpit with the panel missing]
[Insert Pic 3 - The messy wiring harness and multimeter testing]

We spent the last 22 months reverse-engineering the logic from these real parts. Our goal wasn't to make a toy. Our goal was to see if we could fit the 100% functional layout of an A320 into a space of 0.18m² without losing the tactile feedback.

We kept the NKK industrial switches, the real 32-detent pull/push knobs, and the actual mechanical feel of the throttle quadrant. We even worked directly with ProSim to get their A320 logic running perfectly on this hardware.

[Insert Pic 4 - The finished desktop A32X Lite with the panel and screens]

It's been a brutal journey. Moving a switch by 0.5mm to fit the overhead panel into an A4-paper-sized space drove our engineers crazy. But the result is something I'm incredibly proud of.

I'm not here to spam links or sell anything. I just wanted to share the build process with a community that actually understands what it takes to make a proper home cockpit. If anyone has questions about how we integrated the real avionics or how the ProSim integration works, I'm happy to chat.

Keep the blue side up.

where are the pictures?