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03-26-07, 02:28 AM | #1 |
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A question for die-hard flightsimmers
i.e. those who pay lots of money for bits and pieces for your 'home cockpit'
Why? I can understand it if you were studying for a pilots license, say, but if you're just a casual gamer, why spend so much when the same effect can be achieved with the bare minimum? Dont get me wrong, I love my FS 2004 (cause I have an Airwolf chopper! ) but I cant imagine paying hundreds to have a 'virtual radio stack' and a full cockpit on my desk. (Besides, I'd never hear the end of it from my mother :rotfl Illustrates my point (though I think he's playing Falcon 4.0 - it'd probably be less confusing with his setup :rotfl:
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03-26-07, 05:50 AM | #2 |
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For the immersion I guess... now, wouldnt it be fun to turn your room to a submarine´s commandroom with every valve actually doing something in-game?
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03-26-07, 06:02 AM | #3 |
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HEY ! WHO TOOK THAT PICTURE OF MY ROOM!
:rotfl: nah, its not a die hard flight simmer, its just a overgrown with a big wallet addict
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03-26-07, 06:12 AM | #4 |
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so much effort for flightsim equipment but none for real fighter-pilot boots:rotfl:
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03-26-07, 01:16 PM | #5 | |
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My mum would have a field day with that, every school morning. *ARROOOOOOOOOOOGA!* "WAKE UP!"
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03-26-07, 03:49 PM | #6 |
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It's cuz it's coooool! :rotfl:
can you imagine doing the same with something like Dangerous waters and spending a couple of grand doing out a sonar shack? Gf enters room: Whatchya doing? Me (staring at screen,): trackin' a boomer..... GF: Oh, ok. I'm going out for a few hours (hours later GF returns home.) GF: Whatchya doing? Me (staring at screen,) : trackin' a boomer...... Hmm, maybe it works for some sims and not others..... |
03-26-07, 03:50 PM | #7 | |
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03-26-07, 05:51 PM | #8 |
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As a real world pilot, and an avid flight simmer, I would love to have a multi million dollar simulator like you might find at, say, Boeing. For my home flight simming, I dont even have a yoke. Just a joystick. I admit I would like a yoke, pedals, and a 4 engine throttle quadrant, but I agree that buying all the radio stacks etc is a bit much....
Also, those spending hundreds of dollars on home flight sim products might want to consider a trip to the local flight school...you might well be able to afford a bunch of hours int he real thing!
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03-28-07, 02:18 AM | #9 |
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It could be worse, you could spend several million on a real boeing, set up hydralics, then hook up your computer to really get into it.... :rotfl:
Or, buying a Sub, doing the same, and never leaving for weeks at a time...:rotfl: |
06-20-07, 04:07 PM | #10 |
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I know a guy called kevin saker well know of he has a full boeing 757 / 767 cockpit in his house he made himself every single flight deck switch buzzer light and whistle works he runs 5 pc units that will run the sim but it takes up an entire room.
watch kings of sims on discovery chanel.
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06-20-07, 04:39 PM | #11 |
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You can fly a real flight sim for about £200 an hour ,and if you ask me nicely I might even come along and offer a bit of advice!
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06-20-07, 06:10 PM | #12 | |
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06-20-07, 06:30 PM | #13 |
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Well, even though I've actually got a pilot's licence, I have also got a full airliner cockpit halfway constructed in a spare room, and I'll tell you why:
It's a challenge to build it and I enjoy doing that, working out how to build the controls and such. I'm in no rush to complete it though (and yes my wife hates it), it's just a fun thing to mess around with whenever the mood takes me. I can go and fly the real thing when I like, but it doesn't stop me building the thing, as it's more like 'building a convincing movie set' that I find the fun part. Chock Last edited by Chock; 06-21-07 at 01:33 AM. |
06-20-07, 09:47 PM | #14 |
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That image is nothing; there's folks out there who go to painstaking lengths to build entire full-scale accurate cockpits and go the extra distance to find proper matching bolts, knobs. toggles, etc.
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06-21-07, 01:31 AM | #15 |
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