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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!"
thumbnail images and the (pretty lame) webpage
Here's a Google Cache for it.
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Currently I'm contracting for NASA doing flight sims and we use the microsoft flight sim as a reference for the layout of our 777 cockpit. I mean its as real as your going to get without being in a real cockpit.
Projectj. Its only the main page.
If you're a flight sim nut and want to build your own home cockpit, start at www.projectmagenta.com
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I don't normally have anything to contribute to Slashdot, but I have some detailed photos on my website of a 747-400, including the cockpit. Enjoy.
The drama that used his simulator in the set, "Good Luck!", is being posted, one episode every couple of weeks, in alt.binaries.multimedia.japan. They're subtitled in English.
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X-Plane. Period. Available here. It does it all, it's hackable, there are tons of free data files on the 'net you can download - new planes, scenery, etc.
For a few dollars more you can get the Mars scenery discs and fly a plane on Mars.
And the price is very reasonable compared to some other offerings.
Dang, just checked the site and saw that there is a version 7 out, guess I need to upgrade... again...
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"Best" means different things for everyone. The "best" simulation might be the easiest one to learn, or the most realistic one, or the one with the best graphics, or the one which has the most accurate representation of an F-16, or a million other things.
Il-2 Sturmovik FB is probably one of the "best" combat simulations in terms of accurate flight modeling, AI, graphics and selection of aircraft. It's not so hard to learn due to it being a WW2 sim, no complex avionics or procedures. You will have to practice though before getting your first kill.
For a modern combat sim the best is probably Falcon 4.0 with SuperPak 4 (a user-developed patch using the game's full source code, authorized by the game's publishers). It takes months to become proficient at it though (i.e. be able to operate everything in every mode in your sleep).
A good helo sim is Enemy Engaged: Comanche vs. Hokum. It's widely accepted that it is by no means "hardcore", with sacrifices to realism made at every turn for the sake of gameplay, but it's very fun and has moderately detailed systems simulation. The 4 year old Longbow 2 is probably the most realistic helo simulation every made, its graphics aren't too bad for a 5 year old game either. You can find it on ebay.
For a civilian simulation, you might want to look into MS Flight Simulator 2004 or X-Plane.
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