How did you clamp the Saitek panels to your desk? I’m currently looking into a setup similar to yours.
This was my quick way of clamping them to my desk:
Its sort of U shaped this way and not screwed or glued.
In the same way i 3d printed a bracket to clamp it to the desk.
Might reprint a better one so the top side can also hold an ipad or something but for now it works 
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this is mine i use it for racing aswel as flight sim custom built aluminum extrusions, i use my racing pedals as rudder pedals
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Wow, that’s tidy!!
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Very nice.
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Ah that’s a nice setup…really clean looking with the bracket!
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I have always wanted to be a pilot, since I was a really little kid. In 2000 or 2001 (long time ago), my grandma got me Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 for the holidays. I was ecstatic. The bundle came with a CH Yoke and FS2000. No idea what I was doing…but I knew had to learn. No one in my family was into aviation, so every day after finishing my homework, I would spend hours and hours teaching myself how to fly. To this day, I have the same yoke. This yoke has followed me through pilot training, girlfriends, marriage, job interviews, and becoming a full fledged airline pilot. When you sell a car, you attach sentimental value to the price, but this yoke, I can never let go. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll get a Brunner Yoke soon enough, but this Yoke will remain in storage or in a glass case, or until my son wants to learn how to fly, haha. MSFS is so dear to me; seeing what it has become brings so much joy…bugs, gripes, and all. This is the sim I would dream of in hopes that it would evolve.
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That’s a great story, and for the record, 2000 or 2001 wasn’t all that long ago (at least to those of us who had the same dream back in the mid 1970’s).
In a similar fashion, I wanted to keep the steering wheels of each of the cars I owned in my youth, from my 1969 Mustang Convertible, and my brand new 1978 TransAm (Black, Smoky and the Bandit edition), and all the other meaningful automobiles in my life. I imagined a wall in my home where they would each be on display… gladly providing each subsequent owner with a brand new wheel, just to hang on to the memories of each previous vehicle. Alas, that never happened, and today I would give a million dollars to drive just one more mile in that TransAm with my wife’s hand on mine over the stick-shift.
Hang on to that yoke, it’s already becoming priceless.
Jim-Sim
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What an interesting ride. Surely there is some VR apparatus involved in that scene? Tell me you’re not strapping yourself into that seat to fly on what looks like a 24" monitor clear across the desk?
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Sure VR. 
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A little more race sim then flight sim but getting there!
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Mine is definitely not in the same league as some of the amazing setups I see here.
Because of lack of space, it’s designed to mix work with pleasure. My work laptop sits on top of my gaming laptop, which is connected to the external monitor.
So the sim runs pretty much all day on autopilot while I work, and sometimes I take a few minutes to admire the view and even steer it around a bit. I’ve got used to holding on to the yoke sometimes during listen-only meetings. It provides comfort
(PS: sorry for the overexposed image).
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Temporary storing until the rebuilding of the house is done… except the hardwarepanels the rest is handmade
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Actually this is similar to a real aircraft in that you have to use trim to eliminate the pressure on the yoke so you are not fighting it. (35 hours in a Piper Cherokee from 1975!!)
In reference to other flight yokes and sticks the yoke might take getting used to for the sim. In comparison to real life yes, the tightness pulling back and pushing the yoke does feel realistic, however it’s a constant pressure that isn’t alleviated by trimming the aircraft in the sim.
Jez guys !!
Congrats to all , some fantastic set ups here !!
( P.s Any divorces along the way ? LoL !! ) .
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