Sim Icarus Boeing 777 Handmade Flight Deck

ShadowsMV writes "Three technology students finishing up their degrees at the DuPage Campus of DeVry University spent a term designing and building one of the most nifty flight simulators yet. Named the Sim Icarus Flight Deck, it accurately recreates the primary flight accessory controls of the Boeing 777, and interfaces directly with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. They have tons of pictures and lists of everything you need! Previous flight decks featured on slashdot include An awesome homebuilt and wideview with 13 Monitors And 9 PCs."

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Quickly! Call Vaterland Security!

[Anonymous Coward]

and have them arrested for building terrorist training tools!

Slashdot Flight Simulator 2005

[Anonymous Coward]

Experience the thrill of your server levitating from the heat of its own PSU exhaust as 100,000 Mozilla-using Slashdot geeks hit your image-laden site at once with network.http.max-connections-per-server set to 100!

Everything you need?

[Tackhead]

> Named the Sim Icarus Flight Deck, it accurately recreates the primary flight accessory controls of the Boeing 777, and interfaces directly with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. They have tons of pictures and lists of everything you need!

FDS Total =$1,479.00
PFC Total =$750.00
FL Total = $1,239.00
Hagstrom $190.00
Digikey/M$486.05
Home Depot = $390.80
Computer = $1,080.00
Software = $510.00
Brian Sign = $48.00
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Total = $6,172.85

Heatproof wax = $priceless.

I was Building a 757 and gave up lack of $.

[BrianHursey]

I reserched for a year I wanted to build one. I even got the software woking with 6 computers. But after the evaluation of the cost of building the quality sim that I wanted I concluded that it would coust me about 10-15 thosand dollers.

best line from the article:

[de1orean]

"Proof of concept came when we relocated the simulator from Dave's house to school. "

that killed me. :)

new standard

[Jafa]

Wow, it used to be that cocaine was god's way of telling you that you made too much money, according to Carlin.
J

Re:DeVry University?

[scmason]

No, Devry is a nationwide 'chain college' specializing in tech degrees. Supposedly, their graduates are rather hirable.

Looks Nice

[aktiveradio]

Very cool, but I didn't see any cup holders?

Shine You Guys

[stoolpigeon]

trash DeVry all you want. My paycheck for being a developer converts to currency just the same as any of you with 'proper' degrees.

Props to these guys-- that is a nice project. Those of you slamming our school-- you know what you can do. I think DeVry comes in right behind Microsoft on the 'acceptable bashing' scale here at the dot.

Re:Shine You Guys

[Lord_Dweomer]

I hope you know WHY we choose to bash the school. You see, aside from some of the most laughable ads in the history of advertising (which is the industry I'm in by the way, so I've seen a LOT of ads), they have an earned reputation of being a school for students who aren't the most successful, and who aren't "bright enough" to cut it at other schools.

It's a chain college. That and the fact that they have to advertise on tv drastically maims whatever credibility they might have as a school producing intelligent graduates.

So please, don't take the attacks as something against you personally, its all about the image your fine school has crafted for itself.

Their admin must be a complete noob.

[glwtta]

777 seems like a very insecure way to chmod a Boeing.

Flight Deck Solutions

[BrianHursey]

You can buy to scale high quality cockpit paneling at http://www.flightdecksolutions.com/ When I was reserching to build my cockpit. I found this to be the best solution for supplies.

Manufacturing ?

[cyberfunk2]

I'm glad this got posted.. now hopefully some enterprising company will hire these guys. It looks like they did a real good job of something pretty hard, skunkworks style.

If I was an employer I'd wanna have them working for me.

3D idea for this setup

[boomgopher]

You know what would be cool is to:

Rig up a dual projector setup in front of this sim
Have the projected images overlap one another
Place a polarizing filter over each projector
Adjust each filter to be 90 degrees out of phase with the other

Slap on some cheap 3D glasses, and tada, 3D flight simulator.

(I think) Anyone know if this would this work? I've always wanted to try this.

M$ Flight sim?!

[iluvcapra]

and interfaces directly with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004

Somebody buy these guys a copy of X-Plane!. If not for the better environments and the fully customizable aircraft, then at least for the fact that the entire simulation can be controlled remotely over UDP.