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Build Your Own Boeing 737 Simulator

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the build-your-own-saga-continues dept.

crux6rind writes "This guy built his own Boeing 737-700 simulator in his garage. The simulator uses elements of a retired Continental B-737-100 along with other genuine Boeing 737 avionics and system components. The simulator will be of the fixed-base variety (no motion, just outside visuals), using Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000, interfaced with R&R Electronics' EPIC system. This system allows you to interface switches, lights, buzzers, gauges, digital readouts with virtually any PC flight simulator out there."

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  1. National Security by emeraldWEAPON18 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I hope this guy isn't running a flight school to train terrorists!

  2. Osama will have a field day with this one. by neo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sometimes I think maybe people plant these kinds of things just to see if terrorist really will try to use them. Here, take these plans to build a nuke and see what happens. Here, build your own flight simulator.

    1. Re:Osama will have a field day with this one. by Markus+Landgren · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      You are lagging. Osama was last year's propaganda. This year Saddam Hussein is the mastermind behind the WTC attacks.

  3. Re:Older Aircraft Simulators by anonymous+cupboard · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The older simulators (about 20 years ago) used physical models and a camera which could be 'flown' through the model. Taller, buildings had to be hinged in case of collision with the camera which was on an arm. Rolls and cameras would be used for flighing at altitude.