Hello everyone.

https://dropbox.com/sh/w3jd7fa14wvucr6/AABRzfOoZH-JbqnGoEHb6gvja?dl=0

Well after careful planning I was able to build my own Star Citizen Flight sim rig around my zero-gravity chair to allow me to play with an Oculus Rift and a MYo horizontally in Star Citizen. The chair's fully reclining position was originally designed by NASA for taking the gravity pressure off of your joints. It allows me to rotate 90 degrees to look literally straight up while using my Oculus Rift headset for full immersion. The swing arm holding the monitor has counter weighted containers on the back end of the swing arm behind that player that bend and turn up to provide opposing weight to allow the monitor arm to be in any position and stay. When fully vertical the counter weight containers act as footing to prevent the arm from over rotation. I have a clamping swing arm that comes off of one of the monitor swing arm tubes that will hold my keyboard and track ball so I can find and use them without having to look with my Oculus Rift. The MYo armband (google it for details) I will use too will eliminate 90% of keystrokes and commands in game too to also aid in the immersion of using the Oculus Rift. My PC will go down at the front end of the Flight Sim rig and sit on a platform I already have. the Monitor cabling (power and signal cables) will then route into the base tube at the front, up to the elbow swing arm elbow (under the Saitek X65F flight stick pod) and then up and into the monitor swing arm to finally come out right behind the monitor. (approx 25 Ft cables each). The entire Flight Sim rig cost me $260.53 USD and it was all sourced from Home Depot near my house. It is made from 2 inch Black PVC schedule 40 piping and fittings. I used 'liquid nails' caulking in the fixed joints to permanently secure the fittings to the piping. (Trust me, they are never coming loose with Liquid Nails.) Where the elbow swing arm for the monitor joins on both sides of the HOTAS pod towers; those joints are not cemented because your want it to be able to swing freely. I did however drill on both sides of the fittings ad run an all thread for through the middle of the joint length wise and secure it with locking fasteners to ensure the swing arm joint never backs out. the counter weighted tubes in the back hold sand bags that are inserted into the containers and then the cap just presses on. This will allow me to vary the counter weights if I add on additional monitors to the existing monitor swing arm rack. Total build time was 6 hours. Taking proper measurements it critical. You have to account for the fittings taking up space on the overall length of a side before you cut your piping or you will be off. The base is 5 foot long by 4 feet wide. I had my youngest daughter model the build in my old motorcycle roadracing one piece leather suit (Since it looks like the RSI Flight Suit).

I hope you enjoy this info. If your interested in a parts list you can email me at TCMcQueen@127th.org.