Entrys from my guest book prior to closing it down (25-5-06)

Thanks guys !!! (e’mail address’s edited out)

First Name : chris

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Comments : You bloody ripper mate I am an instrument trades person from Aus and this info will prove to be invaluable for me so thank you

First Name : Roland

URL : www.simprojects.nl

Comments : Your effort to make this great site has inspired me to do the same. Ill try your interfacing tricks on my platform as well. Thks!

First Name : Peter

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Comments : I am building fibreglass cockpits and your work is very interesting, keep it up, your pics are very good.

First Name : Peter

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Comments : hello Jim found your site by accident , damm good if i may say, i was going to to use hydolics, but am now going to look at your system ,you are now in favorites any plans to sell plans?? kind regards Peter

First Name : Greg

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Comments : Great Idea! I will have to fine tune this for a combat flight sim, but this is one of the best Ideas I have come across. Never even thought about a motion cockpit before seeing this! Thanks!

First Name : misbah

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Comments : Thanks for supporting our great hobby. You deserve a medel! regards

First Name : Bob W.

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Comments : Chasing down a means to combine flying and movement, and on the ground and ran across your web site. Read what I could but once I learn how to download and process materials I will return to your site. I wish tjo use it for glider training, and unlike

First Name : Joe

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Comments : Excellant ideas for a motion platform, inspires me to do something similiar . I like the Cheapo idea. Hope uy have some updates. Thanks for ur info.

First Name : Jim NZ

URL : www.jimspage.co.nz

Comments : WOW ... Look who just visited and left feed-back in my guestbook !! One of the gurus of FS interaction software, CLAUDE H. Hope you liked it Claude and thanks.

First Name : Claude H - Belgium

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Comments : It is great too see people like you making great things, like your project and this web site. And furthermore sharing in with the Flight Sim community.

First Name : David Gray

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Comments : Hi well done a really interesting project. I always thought it could be done but never had any idea of how it could be done. One small suggestion, why don`t you use a prjector for the scenery and fix it on top of the simulator with a moving screen as well

First Name : Peter Thomas

URL : http://users.tpg.com.au/adsljvly/Brisbane_General_Purpose_Simulator_Cockpit.html

Comments : A fellow kiwi living in sunny Oz. Looking at motion platforms right now, funnily enough thought about using Power Sterring systems on the way home tonight :)

First Name : Andy

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Comments : Superb site! Fancy backgrounds and graphics arent important - its the information that is, and theres plenty of good stuff there. Well Done!

First Name : HenkJanssen Netherlands

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Comments : Hi, just the site I have been looking for!

First Name : GaryW

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Comments : Bonza Ripper Dude!!

First Name : Tiberiu Vela

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Comments : Hi, and thanks for sharing. About 4 years ago I built a very similar setup, car drive shaft but I used the Window motors and wire cables to get leverage and allow for some slack in the XY axis. I ended up with a setup totally different, hanging platform

First Name : MANUEL

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Comments : Good Work! I last something that works and is cheap,good thinking.

First Name : Mark Sherrer

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Comments : Awesome!!!! Great to see, and very inspirational. Thinking about building a GIMBAL based motion base (3 DOF) for rotary wing. Cant wait to see what other progress changes youve made. Job Superbly done!! Thanks for sharing -- AWESOME!

First Name : Gary Townsend

URL : www.apsincsa.com

Comments : Absolutely brilliant site and what a wealth of information. Im a non-commercial pilot and my brother (Rory) and I decided to start our research process re. building a FS cockpit. Your detaled descriptions and pictures will go a long way in helping us. Onc

First Name : Gavin

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Comments : I got you site from FScockpits.com and am delighted I did. I have been looking at making a motion platform for many months now and your sight has inspired and educated me that it can be done cheaply and effectively. Thanks

First Name : Eddy

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Comments : Im from Québec, your site is verry nice and great build technology for motion

First Name : Bertil

URL : www.aeroseum.se

Comments : Very interesting site to read, we are just in the moment to start build a fligtsimulator in our subterrainean mountain former airforce base, so ur website quite interesting solutions to start with.

First Name : James

URL : http://www.london-morning-paper.co.uk/FT/index.html

Comments : Very impressive skipper Capt. James van Etten

First Name : Don

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Comments : Good to see a fellow NZer and Ham involved in Cockpit Building. Like ur motion project Best 73s Don 3W2DM

First Name : Mike

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Comments : love you pics. Im still in the dream state of my sim., I did see how you want to be able to do 1080 degrees. for yourself and others, consider using batteries to run the electroincs internally. Theres batteries called agm type, they can be turned in any d

First Name : Paul

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Comments : Hi Jim Very very nice in fact AWESOME. Thanks for sharing, I will be building a platform in the new year. May i email you if i have any questions? All the best to you and your family and of course merry xmas.Regards. Paul(soon to be a platform builder)

First Name : Chris

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Comments : Very nice! Ive been wanting to build something along the same lines for a few years now, and your success (and advise) is inspiring!

First Name : Jimmy

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Comments : I am an electronic engineering tech student in New Brunswick Canada. The college hired me this summer to build the console panel and circuitry required to interface with an epic system,I found it quite interesting. For my final year I have to build a rath

First Name : Dan

URL : www.drw40.com

Comments : Really enjoyed looking at your website. You have provided a wealth of information for making a motion simulator. I am a pilot in real life and have always long for making a full motion simlulator at home that I could have fun with. I have messed with flig

First Name : Gary

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Comments : I think you have done what everyone tells me is not possible. Thanks for sharing with all of us who want to do rhis.

First Name : Erich

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Comments : Just seen your website. Awesome!! Im way behind you, but getting there. PLEASE NOTE: MANY OF YOUR PICTURES MISSING FROM THE WEB PAGES. Dont know why. Best to you and your CO. Keeping in touch! Erich.

First Name : Charles F

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Comments : Thanks for putting up this info - very interesting. Especially when I found that you actually did have pictures (only visible under IE, not Netscape). P.s where in NZ are you? Charles in Christchurch

First Name : Fred

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Comments : Hi I live in the Netherlands, starting to build my own sim too. tnx for all the info here, is looking realy nice !! :-) keep up the good works and keep us posted happy flying

First Name : Hector Martell

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Comments : Howdy, Im Hec, Callsign HAMMER I live in Hillsboro Oregon, USA. 26 miles west of Portland. Have been playing sim games since the early days of the Comodore 64 computer. A friend of mine told me about your site. Ive always wanted to build a motion platfo

First Name : Craig Bricklayer

URL : http://simhardware.org/

Comments : Nice work! Thanks for sharing the information. Happy flying.

First Name : Pierluigi Frullani

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Comments : VERY VERY very very very nice ideas. I think thats one of the best things I have ever seen. Keep on.

First Name : Kevin

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Comments : Outstanding ! This is an inspiration !

First Name : Richard

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Comments : great job!!!

First Name : Idlewise

URL : www.idlewise.co.nz

Comments : Excellent piece of engineering. And the web-site is concise and all without requiring the fancy stuff! Keep up the good work

First Name : James (ANZ107)

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Comments : Looks awesome, well done!

First Name : Muhand

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Comments : you change my thoughts about motion flight simulators... thanks

First Name : Roland

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Comments : Hi Jim, Thanks a lot for making the updates. Really interesting to see how you have used standard car parts for the motion axis drive. Im very interested in the way you have made the software interfacing from flightsim to motor drive. I build a simple m

First Name : bobee

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Comments : Waaaaal gee whizzz you are an inovative aviator, We, that is bobnlo will be watching this space for further updates... I get snatches on 119.1 and ponder. MS flight sim is about my limit, havent mastered landing concorde at INV yet... Will watch 80M a

First Name : maddo

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Comments : wow. I knew good things came out of Alex, but Jim and Lizzy, you guys rock. Maddo Air Wakatipu

First Name : Pete

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Comments : Cant wait to see the updated site, as you said its made from junk, the price sounds pretty good

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