{"id":20,"date":"2023-10-18T00:05:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T00:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2023-11-05T05:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T05:00:02","slug":"how-it-all-began","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/the-apache-pit-project\/main-menu\/tools\/how-it-all-began\/","title":{"rendered":"How it all began"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in the day (of soundcard gaming ports, autoexec.bat file manipulations, voodoo grafx cards & 3DFX….& all multi-play was at LAN meets over 10\/100Mb hubs not switches) I produced several flat pack cockpit designs, the first, my ‘Mk1’ was functional, but looked like a noddy mobile when compared tot he slick F1 race sim style pits that were out there…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So had another crack, loosely based on the F-16 ergonomics (side mount stick & throttle to reduce the width), this ended up as the ‘Mk2’ & I took this down to Avalon for a LAN setup at the international airshow, which we (82 VFS – Sydney Hawks, put on with some members of 62 Fighting Falcons<\/a> from Brisbane & other groups from Newcastle NZ) some of the Brissy lads liked the work I had done & asked if they could duplicate it, which I was happy to provide the sketches that I had (back then I couldn’t use CAD) & from their design – the Akers-Barnes cockpit was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael & Peter were even nice enough to credit me with inspiring their design<\/a>, which was humbling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To their credit Michael & Peter made these plans free to the community & many a pit has since been started with an Akers-Barnes design or at least a derivative of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s nice to think that I had a hand in inspiring others to build their first simpit, nothing fancy, just simple enough to do the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I do end up court, I fully intend to exploit the insanity plea… I mean my lawyer will hardly have to do any legwork to prove the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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” I mean – seriously your honour, just look at the simpit; my client is obviously unstable & a complete nutter.”<\/em><\/p>\nmy legal counsel<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the day (of soundcard gaming ports, autoexec.bat file manipulations, voodoo grafx cards & 3DFX….& all multi-play was at LAN meets over 10\/100Mb hubs not switches) I produced several flat pack cockpit designs, the first, my ‘Mk1’ was functional, but looked like a noddy mobile when compared tot he slick F1 race sim style […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/681"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}