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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. Terrorists by IGnatius+T+Foobar · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is well known that terrorists use flight simulators to learn how to fly the aircraft they hijack. This one is inexpensive enough for terrorists to build themselves, and uses off-the-shelf Microsoft technology.

    This confirms what we already knew: Microsoft is responsible for terrorism. I think it's time we locked up Gates and Ballmer under the Patriot Act.

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  2. Re:Aaaaiiiiiii! by flacco · · Score: 0, Troll

    off topic? does no one get this? flat-heads.

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