Budgets for building a flight simulator cockpit can be as small as $50-100 with a lower-end joystick or HOTAS. As players add ...

As anyone who has downloaded Microsoft Flight Simulator X or X ... and built a great Cessna 172 cockpit for his personal use. All the gauges, instrument panels, and controls are from Saitek ...

The main instrument panel is a normal monitor masked with laser-cut MDF and Thrustmaster multi-function display bezels. The cockpit is run by the open source Helios Cockpit Simulator for DCS.