Welcome to FlightDeckSource
Kenny Nyhus Fadil is the publisher behind flightdecksource.com and a lifelong polymath who builds his hobbies from the bench up. His home flight deck in Sweden grew out of a sim-racing rig — same hands, same aluminum profile, same refusal to buy immersion he could build — and now runs yokes, pedals, panels, and head tracking he’s wired and compared himself. FlightDeckSource is part of a network of niche sites Kenny publishes openly. He writes about flight-sim hardware the way a builder writes — upgrade order over shopping lists, frame-times over marketing, and honest about which box on the desk makes you a better sim pilot and which just looks the part.
What We Cover
- Controls – Yokes, sticks, HOTAS, and rudder pedals compared from owning every class — plus the curve and deadzone setup that makes cheap hardware fly better
- Cockpit Builds – The desk-mount-to-dedicated-rig migration path, aluminum profile frames, and ergonomics that survive hour three of a long-haul
- DIY Panels – Button boxes and panels actually built, wired, and flashed on the author’s bench — wiring, firmware, and labeling lessons included
- Immersion – Head tracking vs VR vs multi-display, judged by immersion-per-krona from owning all three
- The Sim PC – GPU and settings guidance from logged frame-times in MSFS 2024 and X-Plane 12, not synthetic benchmarks
Our Approach
Tested, not hyped. The site’s standing doctrine is upgrade order: rudder pedals before a better yoke, head tracking as the best money-per-immersion purchase in the hobby, and panels only when the keyboard is genuinely in your way — against an industry that sells everything as essential. Hardware verdicts come from the deck, frame-time numbers come from the actual sims at actual settings, and half of “study-level” shopping gets called what it is: procrastination dressed as preparation. One line you will never read here: anything implying this is real pilot training. It isn’t — this is simulation, owned and loved as exactly that.
About the Author
Kenny Nyhus Fadil has built his deck through every tier — desk-mounted yoke beginnings, a HOTAS phase, the pedal upgrade that fixed his crosswind landings, and DIY button boxes soldered at his own bench. Swedish winters made him a night-flying regular; the deck earns its keep when real weather grounds everything.
Contact
Have a question about a controller, a build, or a frame-time mystery? Visit our contact page.