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Junji Hirayama 's Home Flight Simulator
hifiandrew writes "I love seeing home mockups of cockpits for Flight Simulator like the recent Slashdot article of the person who used 13 Monitors and 9 PC's. But this one takes the cake for cockpit coolness! While doing a Google search for 747 cockpits, I ran across a web site of a person in Japan who has the coolest home cockpit for Flight Simulator I've ever seen. It has a perfect built-to-scale layout, backlit panels and even a projector for the scenery! All running on relatively modest PC hardware. I'm envious!"
I'm envious!"
I'm a geek and it shows!
could this guy do this and still have a wife at the end of it.
You know you've been slashdotted when your cockpit simulator crashes without even taking off.
Bush is on fire and its not good for my lungs.
Rummy to Bush: Looks like a terrorist training cell to me.
Bush: Let's get 'im.
Now imagine a beo... Nah. Wouln't be good, given the current slump in the airline industry...
Looks like the flight simulator isn't the only thing running on fairly modest hardware... slashdotted already :)
Restating the obvious since nineteen aught five.
Anyone know why Andrew was looking up 747 cockpits? Seems like a surefire way to set-off the begin_full_tracking() function at TIA.
I had a sig, but
I duct-taped my window to leave a very small oval hole about 1m off the ground, put 3 uncomfortable, too narrow chair right next to it, put a large cupboard 30cm in front of them, cranked up the A/C to 15 degrees, and put the stereo's volume at maximum on an empty radio frequency.
To simulate a flight, I sit on the chair immediately by the window for eight hours, ask an overweight friend to sit right next to me, and ask my wife to come around every two hours with a trolley to serve us shitty coffee.
It's a very accurate simulation of a 747, and it's much cheaper than all those fancy computer displays and joysticks.
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The sound of the previously happy flight simulator person as his little server takes a ***CRUSHING*** blow from half a gazillion
Goodbye little server. *sniff* R.I.P.
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Slash-deaded.
I wonder if a face mask just dropped from the celing..
Just wait till some crappy band steals your nic.
of all the many flavours of geekdom, I think flight sim geeks seem to be the most pathalogically geeky. There was this guy at my university who had a website where you could book flights on his virtual airline. He'd designed the livery of this airline and had made skins for his fleet of planes. If you booked a ticket (don't know if anyone did) he would fly the route and, if you wanted, give you a VHS tape of the view from the seat, to prove that he'd done it. He was one of the scariest people I'd ever met.
evil math within Nature's Cubic Creation!
I am building Boeing 747-400 type "My Cockpit " for flight simulators
"My Cockpit"? I bet he has a briefcase with the label "My Documents" on it.
Mmmm, a RealDoll in a 60's style stewardess uniform...
Bad news for this guy. His ISP's going to demand that he commit hari kari now :~(
If only this guy got working a mech cockpit, to go with the X-Box's Steel Batallion game. Now that'd I'd definitely go for. Half of the work's already been done with the ludicrously complicated controller that comes with the game.
"... All running on relatively modest PC hardware. I'm envious!"
in other words,
"I'll teach you to show off. Take THAT, webserver!"
slashdoting of an international server be considered an "international incident". The server in question is to some extent being 'violated'.
All running on relatively modest PC hardware. I'm envious!
No need to be envious. For a small sum of money, you too can be running on relatively modest PC hardware!
For every post, there is an equal and opposite re-post.
Might just as well outlaw driving simulators too.
:)
Everyone knows that Grand Theft Auto is really a terrorist training software.
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Outlawing the construction of cockpits for flight sims would be ridiculous, and is something I highly doubt will ever happen.
You might have said the same about renaming french fries a year ago....only in America.
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The slashdot effect has now officially become a means of ensuring national security. In fact, the submitter works for the Department of Internet and airspace security.