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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!"
could this guy do this and still have a wife at the end of it.
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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This is truly amazing! I can't imagine how many hours something like this must've took. They even used it for a TV show according to his site. I wonder what his real job is? Maybe it should be set designer...
(too bad about that website of his though, it's a shame really...)
Come on, I have been out of the scene for awhile.
So, give it up.
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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.
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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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.
Slash-deaded.
I wonder if a face mask just dropped from the celing..
Just wait till some crappy band steals your nic.
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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.
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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.
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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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.
"... All running on relatively modest PC hardware. I'm envious!"
in other words,
"I'll teach you to show off. Take THAT, webserver!"
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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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...
slashdoting of an international server be considered an "international incident". The server in question is to some extent being 'violated'.
Links to other projects
Tons of pictures of other pretty cool looking homemade cockpits.
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!
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These guys have a real 747 cockpit they're using as a flight simulator.
Why don't all these guys who spend b i g bucks on a flightsim mock-up just get a pilots licence? It's way more fun, 100% real and much cheaper. Heck, some of these guys could actually buy a real plane for less than they spend on the computers alone.
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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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.
All the talk about flight sims used to help train terrorists - at least, for the people not just joking - is mostly wasted worry.
Here's why: no way, no how will that tactic of "hijack plane, crash into structure" ever work again.
The only reason it worked the first time was that it was so unexpected. Previously, the MO of a plane hijacking was to fly to some remote location and hold the passengers for ransom. As such, your best chance for survival as a passenger was to lay low, not attract attention to yourself, and wait for either rescue or for the hijackers to get what they wanted.
The more passive you were, the better things were likely to turn out for you.
But those days are now irrovocably GONE. Now anybody who even makes the slightest move towards the cockpit is likely to be dogpiled by every passenger on the plane, no matter what weapon the hijacker might be carrying.
In fact, the days of the "passive hijackee" were over before all the 9/11 planes were out of the air. The news of the change in tactics spread SO quickly that the passengers on Flight 51 (?) prevented the final plane from reaching its target.
The only way a hijacker can get ahold of a plane these days would be to buy/rent it - and you can be damned sure that the people holding the keys are being VERY dilligent about who can get their hands on something large enough to cause any real damage.
That's a trick that would only work once.
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- Freedom to stop whenever you want, from the comfort of your own home. If you suddenly feel like stoppping and taking a nap, it's pretty hard to do that in a real plane.
- Location. Yes, real flying gets you somewhere. That's not exactly the main purpose for (most) pilots- the actual flight is. It would be a major inconvenience to end up halfway around the world if you just wanted to fly, and it wouldn't be much fun to just limit yourself to flying around your city/state.
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Oh yeah, IANAP. :)
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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