......and a lot of time.....
...a lot of patience.....
.... a lot of help...........
.....a lot of money....
....a lot of understanding from the misses...
.... and a lot of depressing moments,
caused by all sorts of problems....
From a pile of MDF...........
......Building an F16 simulator
16-04-2011 One broken link fixed and one added in the Building Aces II section. Please let me know if something isn't working correctly on this site, so I can fix it. 23-01-2011 A new PDF has been added. How to modify a servo so it can rotate 360 degrees, just with some gear wheels. 9-11-2009 A new PDf has been added. A story how to modify Warning lights without ruining the black glass look. 15-06-2009 Yes the site is still alive. Wasn't able to put some new stuff up, but from August on I hope to add some new great stories to the site. For any questions, just mail me. 21-12-2008 Some panel layouts were corrupted, check them if you downloaded them, or download them again. Problem occured with the Leftconsole 1 and 2. 21-12-2008 Added the ICP and frontpanels. Look at Panel Layouts. 19-11-2008 The great drawings of the F16 indexerlights by Dimebug are uploaded. Look at the PDF's page, download them and make these fine lights ;-) 15-11-2008 Uploaded the little story about the building of the Tub. Look at the Building page. 10-11-2008 A little airco story was added on the Building page. 09-11-2008 Framed over 60 pictures of my simulator project ;-) Click at photos and you will see what I mean. 08-11-2008 Slowly my website is returning. I'm trying to complete the site at this new address as soon as possible. 31-10-2008 My host of the site has pulled the plug. I wasn't able to publish a link to this new site at www.f16simulator.nl 25-10-2008 On 24 November the host of this site quits the service. I'll move this site and content to another hosting company. Hopefully it will be on the net soon again, and better. 05-10-2008 BackLight It took some time but finaly I was able to add something new to this site. In the PDF's section a little story is added describing the way I put some backlight to the panels. 18-05-2008 Simulator room had a little makeover and I just installed a beamer and a large projection screen. More to come. In the meantime a little story how to make the airco in the centre console functional. You 'll find it in the building section. 01-03-2008 Finaly I found the time to add two pages to the ACESII ejection seat story . Look in the building section. 14-12-2007 A PDF is added describing the birth of a custom ICP. (Look under PDF's button) 04-10-2007 The PDF's published on this site contain at this moment over 45 pages of descriptions about how to built "cheap" parts for your F16-simulator. And over 125 photo's can be found in the PDF's. Have a look at them. I also added a link to the Adobe Acrobat Reader on the PDF page. Have fun. 03-10-2007 A PDF is added describing the use of a car TFT set for the DED and the HSI screens. 27-09-2007 In the PDF section a description is added about the building of the indexer lights. 12-06-2007 After a quite period a few nice updates are coming to this site soon. First the long vacation with the kids and wife. In september I hope to publish a description of the production of great indexerlights and some other great stuff will be added. Don't forget to look in the PDF section for some usefull stories. 20-03-2007 In the PDF's section added a story about the building of the caution panel for the F16 block 52 31-01-2007 All my paneldrawings have been uploaded. You'll find them under Building the Layout button. Read also the panelpdf under PDF's. 03-01-2007 Under the Layout-button in the building section I added all my panels of the left console for the Block 52 F16 simulator 01-01-2007 Happy New Year! 16-12-2006 In the Building section I added a LAYOUT button. Here you'll find the layout of the leftauxconsole for your own panel building. More will follow soon. 17-11-2006 In the PDF section a pdf is added. How to add a Bass Rocker to the ejection seat. 06-11-2006 Added a pdf in the, you guessed it the pdf section, handling the rebuild of switches on the Aux Comm Panel. 01-11-2006 Solved a problem with the Contact Button. 31-10-2006 In the Building section a description is added about the construction of the panels. 21-10-2006 In the PDF section a pdf is added about the construction of five instruments with the use of only one TFT. 17-10-2006 Added little fun section. A few pictures of my sons with one of the most famous dutch birds. 12-10-2006 Added panels.PDF a description of the method I followed to created my panels. A complete layout of my panels will be published here soon, for free of course. 7-10-2006 Just like you have to force yourself to actually start building your simulator, it took me some time to start this website. Like the cockpitbuilding adventure everything is new to me. So this is the first site I'm building, and English isn't my daily language, I will have to come back to some pages to rearrange the words and polish the mistakes away. Oh, yeah, let me introduce myself. I'm Rien 'Hammer' Heideveld , 42 years old and living in the Netherlands. Married and we have two sons. I like to share the road I traveled with my project, so everyone can benefit and take the shortcuts I learned so far.
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