[HARDWARE] Now here comes what is likely by far the coolest piece of consumer hardware you could ever buy for your home flight simulation system. But don't run out and buy it just yet. This bad boy costs enough for me to pay off my 2009 Volkswagen Passat 6-speed manual 2.0 Turbo!! Hmmm choices, choices...
You can have the best G1000 desktop solution available for your home or flight school for $4900.00 Includes PFD, MFD, Audio Panel mounted in a desktop standup panel and includes our G1000 Student Pro software. Why settle for less functionality at a higher cost?
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You know its looks great but I'm kinda sad that somebody like saitek hasn't made stuff like this but cheaper for us even if its made of plastic well I guess some of us can dream for now.
The price seems to be quite fair. With this you have most of Katana or other modern light GA main panel.
I wish someone would make more practical modules with a higher quality than the cheap plastic crap offered by Saitek or CH. For example, a metal construction desktop yoke (same concept as those offered by CH/Saitek), but one with interchangable face plates so you can better simulate a traditional setup you would find in a Boeing to the 'ram-horn' setup seen on the Embraer RJs and Concorde. Just one of a couple of ideas I personally would rather see than an overpriced control panel that 99.9% of simmers will never buy.
Problem with making it metal is that it will cost to much by making it plastic it would be cheaper to produce.
Check out VRinsight
I will say this, if you are a home cockpit builder, this is a dream. But you would need 2 of them...
That's the problem with the current CH/Saitek offerings, they are plastic and the break. I've gone through 2 Saitek yokes in the last 3 years just from normal use. On one, the the yoke rotary assembly snapped and the other became unusable because the axis no longer had alignment. Metal is is more expensive, but it's also more durable and you get what you pay for.
Give me a line of metal products, I will pay the extra price (it's cheaper anyways than buying 3 plastic yokes because they are cheap). Let the cheapos keep using the plastic garbage currently on market if that's what makes them happy.
Regardless of the material it's made from though, there are more practical modules that could be produced instead. I've even got an idea for a multi-config throttle quadrant (more versatile than those from GoFlight) that would allow not only for different numbers of engines or prop/mixture/flap setups, but also allow for an Airbus style setup with the different thrust gates. That's just me though, I'd rather spend money on something like that or and interchangable METAL yoke than a $5000 panel applicable only to a certain family of planes. I don't have $5000 nor am I interested in limiting my experience to one family of planes. Give me something practical and versatile. 99% of simmers including myself like to fly different types of planes and don't have the money to build a dedicated home cockpit.
The VRinsight metal yoke is closer to what I'm looking for, but it would still be neat to have interchangable face plates to reflect some of the different yokes that are found in real life.
For those looking for a Garmin solution, but not a G1000, I'd recommend looking at emuteq.
http://www.emuteq.com/
Just picked up their GNS530 (basically a hardware front end for Reality-XP). Decent price/quality product.
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