Controls

Done practicing. A little bit of sheet metal to manufacture the combo bracket, that holds the main control unit and the HEI and will attach to the forward bottom edge of the airframe.

If that sounds too much like some fancy h-e-licopter lingo, here's the translation:
1) main control unit = laptop
2) HEI = human-e-copter-interface /controls = joystick
3) airframe = office chair

Simulator

Just practicing helicopter flight in Flight Simulator. With this joystick, collective pitch is done via the throttle lever, cyclic pitch is done via the main stick, and tail rotor pitch is done via twisting the stick around it's vertical axis. Hmm, makes me think...Anyway, gotta sleep now. It's already late.