Learjet 45 cockpit

 


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The throttle uses a cogwheel system and moves two 100K linear potentiometers. The throttle handles are CNC-milled in aluminum. The aluminum has been "converted" to be paintable with a regular acrylic spray.

The Spoiler activates a microswitch - its handle was manually made of propoxy20 - an acrylic putty - and manually filed and cut to final form. It is painted with the same acrylic paint used for the Throttle handles.

The throttle, reversers, flaps, spoiler and parking brake interface was taken out of a simple USB joystick. The X/Y axes are used for the throttle, the Z axis for the flaps and some of the buttons for the reversers, spoiler and parking/emergency brake. No need for specialized hardware - just an old USB joystick. Programming is done on FSUIPC (registered version).

 

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