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!"

Comments

google cache

[Anonymous Coward]

thumbnail images and the (pretty lame) webpage

Google Cache!

[KiranWolf]

Here's a Google Cache for it.

Microsoft flight sim

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

temp mirror

[abhisarda]

Projectj. Its only the main page.

go at it yourself

[cr@ckwhore]

If you're a flight sim nut and want to build your own home cockpit, start at www.projectmagenta.com

Some Photos

[Noctilux]

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.

"Good Luck"

[The Wing Lover]

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.

Re:What are your favorite flight sim games?

[Oliver Wendell Jones]

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...