OpenHornet2020-07-14T18:30:36-07:00
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You’ve always dreamed of being a carrier pilot.
Now live it from the comfort of home!

OpenHornet allows you to build your own personal Hornet flight simulator. OpenHornet is a 1:1 replica of an F/A-18C lot 20 Hornet cockpit for home entertainment purposes. It is a simulator you build, and sit inside to provide a realistic environment for home flight simulation. It is designed to work with the Digital Combat Simulator (DCS) F/A-18C Hornet module, utilizing DCS-BIOS for the software interface layer between your PC and the simulator.

This project is publicly licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

The spirit of this project is it’s open nature. We want everyone to be able to build their own home flight simulator and enjoy it. OpenHornet is designed by a group of volunteers, and all designs and work product will always remain under our open license.

What skills do I need to build OpenHornet?

This project is a significant undertaking, suited for advanced makers and builders.

Mechanical Fabrication

Requires skill fabricating MDF wood structures and acrylic panels, as well as additive manufacture (3D printing) in PLA and PETG.

Electrical Assembly

Requires skill assembling PCBs (SMD and thru-hole), as well as wiring components and fabricating cable harnesses.

Micro-controllers

Be familiar with Arduino micro-controllers and how to upload sketches and programming to them.

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Modular

Builders may omit some major end items and assemblies as required for their specific requirements for their build. Major end items may be attached or detached rather quickly from the cockpit.

Manufacturable

OpenHornet is designed to be built by you. It only requires some moderate tooling, such as a small hobby CNC router, 3D printer, SMD rework/soldering station, and common hand tools. For this design, we assume the user has a CNC router with the same capabilities as the XCarve 1000 CNC hobby router, and a FDM 3D printer similar to the Prusa i3 MK3.

Human Factors

Over 90% of the adult human male population has been accommodated for with the weight limit of 250 pounds/113kg.

Maintainable

The simulator is designed to easily access all components for maintenance and troubleshooting.

Portable

All major end items can be detached from each other and fit through a standard residential interior door.

Minimal Footprint

The OpenHornet simulator is designed with as small a footprint as possible.

71.25in L X 40.5in W X 45.69in H

181cm L X 103cm W X 116.1cm H

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WHERE DO I START?

So, this is all boggling. You have no idea where to start. Heck, we barely did when we started. Take the first step and check out the items below.

START HERE

Click below to read more about how to start.

START HERE

GITHUB

Want to skip straight to the GITHUB repository?

GITHUB

FORUMS

Meet the community. Chat about OpenHornet.

FORUMS

FAQ

Got questions? We might have answers.

FAQ

Developing OpenHornet relies on donations!

Please consider donating to OpenHornet.

Donations go to everything from server costs, to prototyping new parts and PCB testing. 100% of donations are reinvested into the project.

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