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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. whats more amazing by papasui · · Score: 2, Insightful

    is that he can fit it in his garage.

  2. Taking it away... by stoney27 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So how long do we give the Feds to come in and determine that it is in National Security interests to confiscate the hole thing.

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  3. He Spent 30K by PPGMD · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can buy you a gem of a Piper Cherokee for that, then you would be flying for real.

    *shrugs* That's about how much I have spent on all my flying minus the money I made by doing a little instruction and commercial flying.

  4. Re:Train terrorists... IN YOUR GARAGE! by LX.onesizebigger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You do have a point, and the same thing occurred to me just after reading about this. The thing is, technology is becoming easier to work with for everybody, for better and for worse.

    I just recently heard about a guy (I believe here in Australia) who is building his very own long range cruise missile in his garage. Why he's doing it? To prove that if he can do it, so could people with an interest in doing some real damage.

    I'm not sure what his point is beyond that; what he thinks the government should do given when it comes to the realisation that people can do some seriously dangerous shit in their own backyards. Personally, I'm inclined to say that terrorism has to be attacked from the other side of the spectrum, remove the frustration that leads to it.

    Terrorism doesn't have reason. It can't be justified, understood or explained, but what we have to understand is the frustration and hopelessness of the oppressed palestinian people and the poverty and misery in wartorn countries like Afghanistan that leads them to the societal suicide that terrorism is.

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