Cockpit I am aiming for is a C310

[Hellmut1956]

Allow me to introduce myself. In the 90´s I used to be every quarter at least once in the USA due to my work. I develop a friendship with a work collegue who used to have a part ownership of the Bonanza 35B. I made my private pilot license in Germany in the late 80´s and in the 90´s I learned to be allowed to fly multi-engines. My learning did take place utilizing diverse C310. In those days we just had analog instruments and navigation was done using those analog instruments. Since 2000 I had to stop flying and also my trips to the USA ended.

A year ago my friend from California, whi is now retired and living in Hawaii suggested to me to fly together, as we used to do, using the MSFS 2020.

Here my cockpit that I hope to get up and running by mid 2025.

It uses one Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 Gaming Monitor S32BG850NU and 4 Samsung M7 Smart Monitor S32BM700UP, all are 32" monitors. The M7 have 3840x2160 at 60 Hz and the Odyssey up to 240 Hz.
My CPU, i7 11700K runs my two upper monitors and my rtx 3080 the 3 below, all at 60Hz

To further develop this monitor in the future I have acquired Air Manager 4, now updated to Air Manager 5 and one Knobster. My goal is to make something like this cockpit:

But without the digital instruments. The reason I want to pursue this cockpit project is to make my experience when flying like what I used to feel when flying real GA planes. One investment I have already undertaken was to buy the Brunner Force Feedback yoke:

and the

My idea is to make the panel in which to have the instruments using my QIDI Plus 4 3D Printer. My questions:

1. Is there a member of this forum that has 3D printed such kind of a panel?
2. Do I have the right understanding that I can use the Air Manager to render instruments on a monitor with touch functionality that would be placed behind the 3D printed panel? I am assuming that when I touch i.e. the instrument on this panel that then I can have to Knobster assigned to the active instrument?
3. Has anybody knowledge about finding useful examples i.e. in Thingverse?

Thanks in advance
Hellmut

[Keith Baxter]

Hi
I think you might be interested in this.

https://youtu.be/S5WqeA04B9M?si=LwJbcZlJZiJN9vIH

Keith

[Hellmut1956]

@Keith Baxter: This video shows exactly what I was hoping to get, if not more than what I could expect. Thanks a lot!
Regards
Hellmut

[SimPassion]

Very interesting cockpit and layout

Different approach XP and MSFS 2020 :

https://store.x-plane.org/Cessna-T310R_p_887.html

https://blackbirdsims.com/flight/PG.php?id=69

https://youtu.be/B4-8p-4G2bo?t=8

 

[Sling]

Full C310 Air Manager panel set for the Blackbird (Milviz) aircraft here.

https://experimentalsimavionics.com