DH Comet Simulator

[Chris Trott]

Yes and no. Direct drive is usually the best because any gearing tends to exacerbate any issues with movement, especially gearing up to change a servo with limits on its movement to make a full sweep of the dial. There are mods for certain kinds of servos available to turn them into effectively stepper motors (by removing the internal limiting devices) which helps some, but not fully. Stepper motors are getting cheaper and cheaper anyway, so it's getting closer to where there's no cost difference between the two.

BTW, on the subject of a sim - I still wish I'd gotten the chance to take my "ultimate" sim idea to fruition. I might still one day, but it'll take a lot more money than I've got. I was working for a company back a few years that was looking to acquire the last CV-580 simulator (fixed base). Had we acquired it, the plan was for me to take the existing sim and either integrate ESP as the visuals for the sim (which didn't have any). To me, that would be the ultimate home sim. Find an older simulator like that or a procedures sim that has no visuals and use the simulator's inbuilt Flight Model (which is extremely accurate) to drive FSX/P3D visuals thru SimConnect. It'd limit you to a single type, but it'd be spectacular when flying it.