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Junji Hirayama 's Home Flight Simulator

Posted by timothy on from the beyond-the-ordinary dept.

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!"

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  1. Cool...but would we get in trouble? by chia_monkey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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  2. What are your favorite flight sim games? by ACK!! · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Come on, I have been out of the scene for awhile.

    So, give it up.

    What is the best game for the money out there today?

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  3. fantasy flight simulators by nounderscores · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  4. Re:Wow cool! (Sorry 'bout that website though....) by FluxCapacitator · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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...

  5. Pictures of other homemade cockpits by emilng · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Links to other projects

    Tons of pictures of other pretty cool looking homemade cockpits.

  6. X-plane is the sim for you then. by ScottGant · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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