{"id":41,"date":"2023-10-16T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T12:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2023-10-23T11:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:43:48","slug":"the-plans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/the-apache-pit-project\/main-menu\/the-build\/the-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"the plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized wp-duotone-unset-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"785\" src=\"https:\/\/avimator.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/simpit_design-1-1024x785.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-653\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3044585987261146;width:600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avimator.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/simpit_design-1-1024x785.png 1024w, https:\/\/avimator.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/simpit_design-1-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/avimator.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/simpit_design-1-768x588.png 768w, https:\/\/avimator.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/simpit_design-1.png 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I had toyed with the idea of building a full tandem pit back in the days of Longbow2&#8230;.but I didnt have the means to follow through with that lunacy back then, but now&#8230;. so once the apache was release in DCS, I decided to make an entire cockpit I had everything I needed to reference visually in the model explorer, all I needed was some basic dimensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where I got my plans&#8230;.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>What plans&#8230;. when I made the decision to go full apache and build an entire tandem simulator cockpit, I kind of knew there was nothing available &amp; this was going to be a ground up situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had to forage for anything I could locate on the web. I think my Eureka moment was when i stumbled on this image for a apache mock-up build, so all I did was threw it in Gimp, scaled it up, then took as many measurements as I could<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-duotone-unset-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/avimator.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-76.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is AH64_mockup-300x226.png\" class=\"wp-image-352\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So once i had a relative idea of what i needed to do, I started to design a 3D model for the metal frame, taking into account the sheer size of this pit though, I had to make sure that the frame was modular so that it could be dismantled &amp; pieces would fit through a standard domestic doorway&#8230;.  you know &#8230;. so you could leave the roof on the house if you needed to relocate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium wp-duotone-unset-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/avimator.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-10-15-23-at-11.14-PM-300x247.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-178\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avimator.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-10-15-23-at-11.14-PM-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/avimator.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-10-15-23-at-11.14-PM-768x631.png 768w, https:\/\/avimator.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-10-15-23-at-11.14-PM.png 972w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So the basic dimensions I had, but for the things I couldn&#8217;t measure, there was a lot of &#8216;guess-ti-mation&#8217;, most things were near enough, but a couple of items came back to bite me once I had the frame &amp; shell built &amp; started filling up the pit with internal fixtures,    like instrument dash, left &amp; right consoles, seat, controllers&#8230;.. as large as the pit is &amp; as carefully as i measured everything, it all started to get a little crowded, until i realised a few of my design faux pas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/avimator.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-77.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avimator.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-77.png 350w, https:\/\/avimator.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-77-235x300.png 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So I will need to revamp the 3D model to reflect a lot of the changes that were made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research I had toyed with the idea of building a full tandem pit back in the days of Longbow2&#8230;.but I didnt have the means to follow through with that lunacy back then, but now&#8230;. so once the apache was release in DCS, I decided to make an entire cockpit I had everything I needed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","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=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/655"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}