Dutch-based company TRC Development has launched SimKits – a product line of kits with simulator parts, that allows cockpit self-builders to build gauges for twelve different airplane cockpits. The new website – ww.simkits.com – with the SimKits shop features the complete line kits.

Said a spokesman: “Now flight enthusiasts and flight simmers can build their own true-to-life cockpit with SimKits gauges. They can build almost any gauge they want for a home-built cockpit and use it with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 to experience nearly real flight.

“The SimKits are constructed in such a way that they can be used for twelve different types of aircraft. They are the Cessna 172 Skyhawk, the Cessna 182 Skylane, the Beechcraft Baron 58, the Beechcraft King Air 350, the Bell 206B JetRanger, the Cessna Caravan Amphibian, the Cessna Grand Caravan, the Extra 300S, the Mooney Bravo, the Schweizer 232 Sailplane, the Sopwith Camel and the Vaught Corsair.