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Flight Simulator 2002 With 13 Monitors And 9 PCs
Ant points to Steve Ferris' site demonstrating what Ferris has done "using Wideview software, Multi Monitors and Fs2002 Panel Interior view Bitmaps. 9 PC's & 13 monitors. Server PC is a 2.0ghz AMD and has 1 Asus 4800se G4 AGP and when Motor flying 4 PCI graphic cards for the instrument panels.. All 8 Clients have AGP cards and are AMD 800 to 1.5ghz... My Ask21 Glider with 3 Asus 4800se G4 cards on the front 6 monitors, giving great downward landing view. When you sit in front, all screens line up reasonably well ... Windows XP on the 3 front PC's and 98se on the rest."
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When you sit in front, all screens line up reasonably well ...
WHERE ELSE ARE YOU GOING TO SIT?!?!
Blarf.
seriously...wow.
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
Flight simulator my arse, hes only saying that because of his wife!!! the real reason is his DVD porn collection!
There is no god
...incredible crash realism thanks to our friend Windows 98. :)
Nice, nice. But, isn't that seatbelt on the chair taking things a bit too far?
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Cool, but where are his speakers?
With all them PCs running under his desk, the guy must be wondering why he still hears the wind roars when his plane is parked.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
when the win98 machines BSOD in succession, do the wings fall off?
..I've always wondered what it feels like to be a hotdog inside a microwave oven.. There's a guy that knows!
THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK.
*wipes drool off of floor*
Does anyone remember battletech? It was kind of like an arcade, but just with the one game, a Mech type battle simulator, complete with cockpit, joystick, and multiple screens for views just like this. I remember playing at the Navy Pier in Chicago many years ago....
It's amazing how much multiple screens increases the realism. You look left, right, and there's still more game!
Doug
Venn ist das nurnstuck git und Slotermeyer? Ya! Beigerhund das oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
My father's a pilot, I've seen him go plane shopping. For a 30 year old 4-seater it usually costs a bit more than a new luxury car, so they'd have to all be HD plasma displays before they'd even approach the cost of a new plane. Oh, and before you ask... A 30 year old plane is quite flyable. Heck, we have military planes that are over 50 years old and still flying into enemy air. Pilots pay much more attention to aircraft maintenance than most drivers, 'cause when your engine goes out at 7,500 feet, it's a little bit more serious than when it goes out at 0.
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No. Having a computer to simulate any aircraft. as well as the awesome bragging rights is and will continue to be better than anything you can ever put up, save 14+ monitors. This man is godlike and should be treated as such. Can you even imagine how much better he is than us? millions of times better. godlike, man. GODLIKE.
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...I can tell you, that all flight simulators are missing two most important instruments - a piece of string and your butt. No, seriously. You don't look at instruments at all, you just check the piece of string stuck to the outside of the canopy to see if you are not flying slightly sideways. And when you find lifting air currents, you feel you're being pushed into the seat, even before instruments register anything. Other that that, you just enjoy the view (and fly in circles a lot :) ).
How can he stand the noise?
...oh wait.
What with all those psu, cpu, video and case fans blowing it must sound like a jet taking
Windows XP on the 3 front pc's and 98se on the rest
That's a total of 13 licenses needed. Are you inviting the BSA into your home or is 13 your lucky number?
"It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
Rough guess
CRTs: 10 x $250 = 2500
TFTs: 3 x $650 = 1950
Vid cards: 13 x $250 = 3250
PCs: 9 x $500 = 4500
So about $15K altogether, give or take a couple K.
Compared to the multi-screen Air Traffic Control systems that are commercially available. Screens
Assembled
Some of the smaller models such as what are used at the FAA Academy use 3 27" displays. Of course the resolution is different. The big screens use $15,000 projectors and custom mounting hardware. And commercially available 3D image generation systems. But you can scale it down to a p4 and a Geforce card per screen.
Especially since most of those computers are running Windows 98...
Sapere aude!
X-plane does this sort of thing natively using TCP/IP,
costs less, and has a more accurate flight model.
Other info at theX-plane UDP networking information site.
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A pilot's license will run you, on average, about $5,000.00. That can vary depending on how many hours you need before you're cleared for your checkride, but $5k is a pretty decent round estimate. That leaves $10k. Most places charge (again on average), about $80 - $85 per hour for a rental Cessna 172. Even using the $85 number that equals about 118 hours of pilot-in-command time. Figure abot 40 hrs to get the license and that means $15k will get you a real life pilot's license and about 160 hours of flight time. That's a far better value, with some tangible returns for the money invested, than a bunch of PCs that will be obsolete in 3 years and just simulated stick time.
For the same reason, although we think Halo would be fun as fuck running on 16+ monitor screens, my friends and I have opted instead to take real sniping lessons, and buy a warthog.
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The average length of time taken to get a PPSEL (Private Pilot Single Engine Land) is around 70 hours. I got mine in 72. The FAA requires at least 40 hours of training. Most beginner pilots focus on the number 40, but soon realise that 40 is a pipe dream. If you're lucky you will solo in about 15 hours. At 40 hours you will have good allround experience and will be ready to plan the require 2 short and 1 long cross-country flights. If you're really good you will be ready for the check-ride at 60.
I actually read this site just yesterday - He's using far cheaper gear.
10 CRTs (currently my company is selling off surplus for $50 a piece) = $500
TFTs - currently, 17" CRTs are about $400 = $1200 He said that they are mostly cheap-o video cards such as the nVidia GF4MX = $40 each ==> $520
PCs - most are of the 800mhz variety - can be had for $200/piece at an auction. --> $1800
Price Total: $4020.
Now, I don't know where this guy lives, but my Private Pilot Certificate PP-ASEL cost me approx $8000 in the SF-Bay Area.
I love flying - read: LOVE flying - nothing comes close.
However, let this guy have his kicks... if he got deals on the gear, it's only 33% more expensive than your high performance gaming PC setup listed on arstechnica and other hobbyist sites.
At least it's better and far cooler than having neon fans and powered liquid coolant systems overclocking by 10% to get 500,000 fps in quake.