On The Glideslope

Category: Other Great Home Cockpits

  • Taxi Into Position And Blog

    One of the folks I’ve been fortunate to get to know through this blog and my YouTube channel is a Frenchman (now living in Belgium) who goes by the handle Taxi Into Position And Hold. He’s often in the chat on my YouTube streams, and as a real-world pilot and builder of his own very impressive…

  • A Really Beautiful Home Cockpit

    One of the things I like about the forums here — at least when I have time to read them — is people posting pics of their home cockpits. There are so many cool designs and so much passion and enthusiasm behind them. It’s really great to see. One regular reader and viewer on my…

  • A Great GA Cockpit Build

    Marco has added a fabulous series of posts in the forums about his Cessna cockpit build. He clearly knows his way around a wood shop and has done some really beautiful work. Check it out.

  • M1 Sims

    M1 Sims

    I got a nice note a few days back from B.D. who has been working on his home cockpit and real-world flight training. He has a nice rig going, and is posting some great stuff at his blog, M1 Sims. It’s worth checking out and bookmarking. And look at the quality of this panel work!

  • Great New Website And An Amazing Home-Built Garmin 530

    OTG reader and forum contributor Frank Mignone (“Spankybus” in our forums) has a new website, and it’s beautiful. What’s more, it highlights the working Garmin GSN 530 (for X-Plane) he just made for himself. It’s amazing work. Well done, Frank. You show what’s possible in one’s own workshop.

  • Shout Out To The Hayesville High Aviation STEM Class

    Last week I was very flattered to learn that the Basement Sim has been an inspiration to the aviation STEM class at Hayesville High School in Hayesville, NC. Scott Hanna is one of the instructors for the course, and he forwarded me a link to the video below that shows the remarkable work they’ve done. The…

  • Look At This Kid …

    … and what he’s building in his garage: Very cool.

  • Holy Cow

    Look at THIS sim.

  • FRed Baron

    The OTG Facebook page recently received a like from this gent, and what a sim setup he’s chosen to run!

  • A Great Cessna 172 Cockpit

    Over on the AVSIM Home Cockpit Builders forum I found a great home cockpit project going on in Europe. You may see it here. It’s really great work, and I look forward to seeing it come together. The tops of plastic cups for the bezels – brilliant!