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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!"
Ok...that was cool as shit. I want one (well I want a big house, enough money to build it, some time...).
But...would we in the US get in trouble for building such thing? "It could be used to train terrorists". Life used to be fun...
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Wow, well done.
Now what would happen if somebody took that concept and applied it to parsec or the wing commander style flight sims?
I know mech warrior had a nifty little cockpit sim for mall arcade action, but nothing ever had an emersive screen that made your eyes focus on the middle distance.
Throw in 3d glasses, a big subwoofer and hydraulics from an old massage bed while you're at it.
Think of the possibilites using xinerama with 4 LCD Projectors, a round white room, and a special version of Vice City!!!!
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What's with geeks now-a-days? I used to fly with MS Flight Sim on my Mac Plus which had 1mb of RAM, 1 floppy drive and no hard drive. Looking back at that, it seems amazing that a flight sim was even possible. It had 1-bit color but it was high res (in comparison to CGA or EGA graphics)!
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Yeah, I watched the Japanese TV show it was in. The cockpit featured in nearly every episode. I actually thought it was either an extremely expensive prop, one of those flight training simulators, or part of the real thing. Little did I know it was made by some dude in his backyard ^^;
Actually, this is Japan so it was probably takes up his whole living room...
Links to other projects
Tons of pictures of other pretty cool looking homemade cockpits.
These guys have a real 747 cockpit they're using as a flight simulator.
They explain all this about Mars in their sim...which is why you can't fly just any plane there. Most of the ones are rocket powered.
They even include a shuttle re-entry from true orbit down to the landing at Edwards...including the wild "S" turns to slow down.
Plus X-plane is Open-GL based and works both with OSX and WinXP/NT.
Their flight model is by far the best.
Be sure to check it out, they also have a downloadable demo.
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I actually used to do this with my friends as a kid... we'd set up a bunch of chairs in a row, and get a little cart with plastic wrapped trays for meals.
For the cockpit, the Apple IIe would run whatever weird "simulation" menu things I would make up in BASIC, and the best part: a set of 3 sliding dimmer switches in a housing my dad made up for me, connected to 3 shop vacs. Instant jet!
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And it's a matter of difference of opinion whether someone's obsession is pathological. You think Joe Six-Pack around the office doesn't think his co-worker's obsession with computers is amusing?
I think what the guy did is pretty cool. There are too many options on flight plans in flight sims, and having someone else set it for you brings a challenge. Plus, he probably thought that people would derive some enjoyment/relaxation out of being on a fantasy flight.
Where's the bad? The guy was having fun (I assume), and had the extra realism & challenge of not choosing where he was flying to (if anyone took him up on the offer that is). "Pathological", maybe, but only if you think that a very weird hobby = disease. It's not like he was out raping nuns or something.
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