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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. Kaboom by NETHED · · Score: 4, Funny

    He paid 25,000 - 30,000 USD for the stuff currently. I figure thats about how much this slashdotting will cost him in bandwidth.

    Ready....Aim....SLASHDOT

    but this is uber cool anyway. I had a difficult time understanding the timeline of the pictures, but still, very cool. As an avid Sim Pilot and a student pilot, this is the holy grail of sim-ers.

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  2. DOH! by Alsee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Build Your Own Boeing 737 Simulator - if you happen to have a spare 737 lying around to build it from!

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  3. How realistic is it? by mrsam · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does the simulator keep track of how fast the virtual airline is burning up cash, and how long before they go bankrupt?

    And, of course, no airplane cockpit is complete, these days, without a Breathalyzer.