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Home-built 747 Simulator
James Morris writes: "This is a cool hack: some guy is building a 747 simulator in his backyard." This is one of the most impressive even while in progress, but the other projects linked from this site set a tough standard.
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Sydney, Australia
UPDATED 15/04/2002
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The approximate size of the simulator is 13ft wide x 11ft long and 9ft high.
It will include every switch and panel in the 747-400
Built to accept full motion and visuals at a later date.
This is a Ten year project.
6 years to go!
Naturally it will be controlled in time by the one and only Precision Simulator
by Aerowinx and Hardy Heinlin
747 SIMULATOR MESSAGE BOARD
PS1 747-400 & FS2000/98 RUNNING ON MY HOME SETUP
PICTURES OF DESIGN
CONSTRUCTION TIME TABLE
FMC KEYBOARD
PREVIOUS PICTURES
THUMBNAILS All pictures so far
LATEST PICTURES And NEWS 15/04/2002
OTHER HOMEBUILT SIMULATORS
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
FLIGHT IN A REAL 747-400 SIMULATOR
WORLD-FLIGHT AUSTRALIA IS A CHARITY EVENT TAKING PLACE IN NOVEMBER 2002
Would you like to help?
Simulator will be based in Sydney Australia
If you have any skills or knowledge that you can share contact me.
mailto:hyway@viper.net.au
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Google/DMOZ has a whole category for this guy and his peers. I especially liked Kev's cockpit, a little How To guide.
No use blowing some small Aussie ISP out of the water.
mirror will be here for a few days
The guy at http://www.737simguy.com/ (linked off the site in the article) actually built his sim in the severed nose of a real airliner. Now that's dedication to realism.
Must be expensive though...
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It seems the Aerowinx software he's planning to use is based on empirical data from thousands of 747 flights.
Perhaps he should consider X-Plane instead. It derives it's aerodynamics from first principles, and is quite accurate in simulating things that haven't been actually done. You can even get FAA certification from using X-Plane. It's already got the software hooks to drive a motion platform.
Plus you can hack the hell out of it. There's a large community of users with interesting mods.
If you want to see the history of this project , and a non slashdotted version of the side , have a look at http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.hyway.com.au/747/ 747.htm
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Flight Sim Cockpits are becoming a popular thing among FS junkies. I admit, I'm one of "them".
Most of the sim cockpits are of large jets. Many flight simmers fly these things, including military jets, because they're fun and they'll never have the opportunity to fly one in real life. With today's computing power, one can build an incredibly realistic simulation.
I recently started thinking about building a full scale 737 cockpit after purchasing the Dreamfleet 737-400 for simulation. (www.dreamfleet2000.com). The DF737 is the most realistic 737 simulation available for flight sim. I located some good cockpit building information, and even a source of replica panels.
www.a-g-t.com has replica panels of an F-16, F-18, Airbus A320, Airbus A340, Boeing 737, Boeing 747, Boeing 777.
A good source of information is www.projectmagenta.com. Project Magenta was started in the interest of making "Glass Cockpits". In a modern big jet, there aren't likely to be guages for the primary flight instruments. These have been replaced with computer screens. Because glass cockpits are real, and computer screens are easily available to simmers, new modern jets become easy to simulate with 3 or 4 computer monitors embedded beneath the simulated flightdeck. Projectmagenta.com has pics illustrating what I'm talking about.
The only thing keeping me from building my 737 cockpit is money. I'm about to dump a bunch of money into a kit plane and go flying for real. Perhaps the 737 simulator will come afterward.
Even with real flight, I'll stick around in flight sim (as many pilots do) because I love the big jets!
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Good refernce site:
: www.hyway.com.au/747/747.html+%22%2Bwww.hyway.com. au/747/747.html%22&hl=en&ie=UTF8
http://www.glideslope.de/html/cockpit.htm
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