It's a pleasure for us to promote our commercial customer Aero-Simulation by JetCity in France, near Paris-Orly. The simulator is located in the Delta Museum and mainly used for public activity.
"We are proud to use a VIER IM POTT simulator. Our customers are really impressed by the realism and quality of the shell. Most professional pilots express that it feels "like a real cockpit" when they fly with it. Congratulations to the VIER IM POTT team and thanks again."
- Pierre Letessier., France
The simulator is mainly used for public activity and it can also be adapted for handicap people using a wheelchair on boths sides. Some real pilots are in contact with Aero Simulation to use the sim as a private training device before their own exams. As they are located in the Delta Museam they can offer a visit of the famous concored after the flight.
Please visit their website:
https://www.aero-simulation.fr
Address:
Musée Delta - 1 Avenue Bernard Lathière, 91200 Athis-Mons
One of our customers has built a closed single-seater cockpit with a 180° outside view. To give flight simulator enthusiasts some hints for building such a cockpit, we include the description of his construction in our blog. On the other hand, we are interested in learning about a potential demand for prefabricated VIER IM POTT parts for a single seater. Please contact us if you have questions or suggestions.
To keep the simulator base free from intruding screws, the wheels and struts are glued to the boards. This ensures area-wide 19 mm depth for wood insert nuts.
Wood screws have only been used for the reinforcement of non-detachable bonds.
The cockpit rack (side stays and roof beams) is built for adequate load bearing and torsion resistance:
Some VIER IM POTT shell frame parts have been shortened to make the shell frame fit onto the simulator base plate. The overhead panel is suspended to a roof cross-beam in order to obviate positioning restrictions for the monitors.
The asymmetric cockpit is designed to mimic the A320 original as accurately as possible but adapted to the constraints of a single-seater:
The cockpit before installation of the monitors and the enclosure:
All self-made parts except the monitor supports (aluminium profiles) are made of wood, mostly of plywood (6 mm and 4 mm) and square wood strips.
Finished cockpit:
Five Samsung 4k TVs arranged as follows:
To cover the wider of the two display bezels, there is a small overlap of the TVs (not shown in the diagram above).
The outside view is defined by a Prepar3D View Group configured according to the monitor setup. Approximate View Frustum Values are:
The single seater configuration and the floor space restrictions precluded a symmetric arrangement of the monitors. Nevertheless, the visual impression is very appealing and gives a stunning flying experience:
It's a honour, to introduce the first VIER IM POTT Flight Simulator in the Seoul Simulation Center in South Korea.
The simulator has been pre-assembled in Germany. The final installation was done by the local team with remote support from us.
Congratulations - Good job!
Simulator on the picture is shown during a testflight...
We know you missed as at the FSweekend 2018 in Lelystad. So here is the story why we could not join.
For sure this video is not meant serious :-)
After several month of work we made the following improvements:
Enjoy!
We recently had a visit from a pilot team from Spain. It was really intersting to see how differently professionals test our products. Private customers usually intend to fly the aircraft perfectly. Commercial customers always try to brake the plane and do something they are not allowed in real simulators... :-)
Especially when your are flying in adverse weather conditions it is important that your instruments....
Interesting departure from Graz. Heading west towards Friedrichshafen.
We simply love flying!
A few years ago we made a funny discovery with a company copying all of our products.
See here: Blog
Last week we found out that it happened again:
Wow. They even copied my personal story :-)
We kindly asked them to remove our products but they did not comply. So just to let you know: These guys are neither VIER IM POTT nor they are authorized reseller. If you order from them - you may get something else or nothing.
Only one thing we have in common. We both recommend our MIP Stand :-D
Mountains everywhere...approaching Klagenfurt (LOWK)
Hi all,
Some customers have asked us for tricks on how to defeat the dust in a simulator without having to disassemble everything or damage the panels. So here's the way we do it.
First, we need to locate the vacuum cleaner in the house. With a furniture brush with very soft bristles (such as horsehair), the dust can be removed even from the smallest corners and the Sim looks like new again. In addition, this procedure does not take long and you can fly back quickly.
We are back up-to-date with no issue...
Dear customers,
if you execute Windows Update April 2018 make sure you follow these instructions:
Make sure that you have done step 1 before you allow the Windows Creator Update. Otherwise your screen may stay black. In this case please boot your computer in safe mode and remove Immersive Display Pro from autostart by searching for this path "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup".
Almost ready! :-)
Radio interview
TV interview
How to plan a home cockpit - Lecture of Christian, VIER IM POTT