Speed Modeling A Cessna Controller for FS2020

Arduino Uno is there. I think this is enough for one day. 7h up to this point, with a few brakes. Time for a pause.

Next, I will add the electronics tray and start printing.

I think I will add a few switches to the front panel. Not sure what to use them for, yet. Maybe a swappable front plane is desirable. Maybe for additional radio controls or similar. 

Unfortunately, the fuel selector is pretty large so it does not fit onto the front place. But the top of the enclosure will work fine. Usually it is located between the two front seats.

A 10 turn poti for a simple laser cut trim wheel

I also added nuts on the other side of all the mounts so that 5.5mm M3 nuts can be pressed into the holes to make mounting easier and more robust.

The the picture propeller and mixture need to swap places...

88mm linear poti from Amazon embedded into an enclosure that uses a 1/4" rod from Home Depot and some glue.

I don't think I will make a fake nut on the front just to make it look like the original. It's supposed to feel like the original in the hand and have a linear function. I'm not building a movie prop here. :)

• Engine Power - Analog linear poti
• Engine Mixture - Analog linear poti
• Propeller Setting (optional but useful for more complex airplane sims) - Analog linear poti
• 10 turn trim wheel (I'm not entirely sure about this but 10 turns is wheat I thought a trim wheel of Cessna 172 does) - 10 turn poti
• Flaps (0-100% or 0 to 40 degrees) setting with indicator via servo (might not be application controlled but just through the Arduino) - Regular poti
• Fuel tank selector (because that's actually really important during pre-flight and flying) - regular poti
• Headset connector to have the proper cables in the way and flying around on your lap - these cables are really annoying. - PJ-055 (.25 inch / 6.35mm) and PJ-068 (.206 inch / 5.25mm) sockets