The first tip is very important – one of the first purchases that need to be made when building a flight simulator cockpit is the monitor set. If you buy a set of identical monitors all at the same time you have the best chance of a consistent image when it is spread across those monitors.
It’s an obvious tip when you think about it, but in actual practice, when I am called in to build a simulator and the client has already purchased the hardware, inevitably the selected monitors are not identical.
There are two other tips that are relevant:
In the old days it was necessary to remove the actual monitor from the plastic bezel, but nowadays it is possible to purchase monitors with very thin bezels like this:
The other tip is something you need to watch out for but is difficult to ascertain if you are buying online. The stand needs to be removable without leaving a stub which can interfere with the mounting of the monitor. In the picture below the stand is removed but it is difficult (and sometimes impossible) to get rid of a piece jutting out:
Ideally you need to get hold of a monitor which can be wall-mounted, because then the stand will be easily removable and also have 4 threads to bolt to a cockpit support beam like this:
