New Kid on the Block

[gjha97]

Hello,
My name is Greg Hembree and I have had the pleasure of meeting a few of you who attended World Flight 2015 in Sarasota, Florida last year.  I live in Clearwater, FL ... about an hour north of Sarasota.

Last year Bob Reed asked me if hanging around all of these simulator guys, was putting a bug in me to start my own.  At the time, I said I would love to , but time, space and funding were not aligned.

Well, I finally caved-in and decided to start my first simulator. I am X-Plane based and have been flying a wonderful Experimental called Viper Jet MKII.

I enclosed a few pics of my inspiration.

Time to searching for key parts!

GH

[RayS]

Oh man that is sweet!

Welcome to the dark side!

[Bob Reed]

See Greg, I tried to warn you!!  Welcome to the never ending game! lol Love the aircraft. What are you going to use for avionic software? The cockpit itself does not look super hard to build either. I am looking forward to watching this come together!

[gjha97]

I am using X-Plane. It has a very nice flight model for the Viper Jet.

I picked this plane as a first build because it looked like it would be a good starter build, will likely fit in my spare bedroom ( with flat panel monitors...longer term goal is for a spherical projection system), and is an out-an-out blast to fly.

Going to be interesting to replicate some of the avionics.

I already started working on the landing gear system and have hooked up a teensy board to get the signals in and out of the sim.

[Trevor Hale]

That's a great start Greg.

Start small and work your way up piece by piece.

Gear, Light Switches, Flaps, And a throttle.  You will get there. 

Welcome Aboard.

Trev

[Sam Llorca]

Hi Greg, welcome on board! Happy to see you decided to start your build. Cheers!!!