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Junji Hirayama 's Home Flight Simulator 211
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!"
Only in Japan... (Score:5, Funny)
temp mirror (Score:5, Informative)
Cool...but would we get in trouble? (Score:5, Interesting)
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...
Microsoft flight sim (Score:3, Informative)
flight simulators & terrorists (Score:1, Troll)
Holy Fucking Shit! (Score:2)
Before 9/11, most rock concerts had better security than airports.
Re:Cool...but would we get in trouble? (Score:1, Redundant)
Might just as well outlaw driving simulators too. And hey, have you seen the new The Sims game?
Re:Cool...but would we get in trouble? (Score:3, Funny)
Everyone knows that Grand Theft Auto is really a terrorist training software.
Re:Cool...but would we get in trouble? (Score:3, Interesting)
Outlawing the construction of cockpits for flight sims would be ridiculous, and is something I highly doubt will ever happen.
Re:Cool...but would we get in trouble? (Score:2, Funny)
Outlawing the construction of cockpits for flight sims would be ridiculous, and is something I highly doubt will ever happen.
You might have said the same about renaming french fries a year ago....only in America.
Don't ask why that site's down (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Flight Sims as Terrorist Training Tools (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
DG
Re:Flight Sims as Terrorist Training Tools (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Cool...but would we get in trouble? (Score:2)
wow (Score:5, Funny)
You know you've been slashdotted when your cockpit simulator crashes without even taking off.
re: wow (Score:1)
"all your bandwidth are belong to us!"--slashdot
ed
With us or... (Score:2, Funny)
Bush: Let's get 'im.
Wow cool! (Sorry 'bout that website though....) (Score:4, Insightful)
(too bad about that website of his though, it's a shame really...)
Re:Wow cool! (Sorry 'bout that website though....) (Score:3, Interesting)
Actually, this is Japan so it was probably takes up his whole living room...
Wow... (Score:1, Funny)
What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:4, Interesting)
So, give it up.
What is the best game for the money out there today?
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:1)
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:2)
That's about like buying a lamborghini (with cruise control.......?), getting up to highway speed and setting cruise control, then complaining because it's a boring drive.
Live a little, take it off autopilot
Then get up to 30k+ altitude, drop the nose to 50+ degrees negative, and watch the land scream up to you in realistic graphics. Everyone knows that's what you do on a flight sim.
=)
Flightgear (Score:2)
Hard to argue with free.
I just need a decent video card to handle it properly.
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:4, Informative)
For a few dollars more you can get the Mars scenery discs and fly a plane on Mars.
And the price is very reasonable compared to some other offerings.
Dang, just checked the site and saw that there is a version 7 out, guess I need to upgrade... again...
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:2)
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:2)
X-plane is the sim for you then. (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Re:X-plane is the sim for you then. (Score:2)
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:2)
You can fly a plane on mars. See here. [msss.com]
There are
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:2)
If you look here [x-plane.com], you'll find that XPlane has FAA approval for use in pilot training - the only consumer-level flight sim so far to achieve this.
And just to add to the fun, it can get real-time weather info off the net and add that in to your scenery :-)
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:2)
You'll love Orbiter [orbitersim.com]. It's even free!
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:2)
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:2)
And what "other offerings" is X-Plane priced more reasonably than?
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:2)
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:3, Insightful)
X-Plane's flight model pwns FS2004's in terms of realism, but you can head down to the store and pick up FS2004 now for les
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:2)
I purchased X-Plane v5.x at a used-book store that carries new and used software as well. They had multiple, unopened copies
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:2)
The latest MS flight simulators are very impressive as well, and that's coming from a Linux user
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:2)
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:2)
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:2)
I had trouble getting it to work ~1 year ago, but that was before these latest patches were available. I'm pretty sure that they are XP-friendly.
I need to find the time to give it a shot again myself. :-)
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:3, Informative)
Il-2 Sturmovik FB is probably one of the "best" combat simulations in terms of accurate flight modeling, AI, graphics and selection of aircraft. It's not so hard to learn due to it being a WW2 sim, no complex avionics or procedures. You will have to pra
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:1)
google cache (Score:5, Informative)
Re:google cache (Score:3, Informative)
http://web.archive.org/web/20020219202626/www.wak
Gogle is /.ed! (Score:2)
Google caches the text only! (Score:2)
Google Cache! (Score:5, Informative)
Modest Hardware? (Score:5, Funny)
Suspicious (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Suspicious (Score:1)
Re:Suspicious (Score:2)
begin_full_tracking() (Score:2)
I have my 747 simulator too (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:I have my 747 simulator too (Score:2)
Re:I have my 747 simulator too (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I have my 747 simulator too (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I have my 747 simulator too (Score:2)
cranked up the A/C to 15 degrees
Yeah, I wish. Seems like the air on flights these days keeps getting more and more stale... :-/
The best bit about flying it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The best bit about flying it (Score:2)
you can change clothes in the middle of the flight!
Aggggghhhh! (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:Aggggghhhh! (Score:2)
"...but he got redundant while you got funny. how does that work?"
I truely don't know. Chalk it up to the
fantasy flight simulators (Score:5, Interesting)
Now what would happen if somebody took that concept and applied it to parsec [parsec.org] 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.
Re:fantasy flight simulators (Score:2)
Re:fantasy flight simulators (Score:2)
It's still quite difficult to simulate actual walking experience, although some [virtusphere.com] have come quite close, so may be my idea is a go
MAYDAY! (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder if a face mask just dropped from the celing..
Better yet..... (Score:1, Interesting)
go at it yourself (Score:5, Informative)
pathalogically geeky (Score:5, Funny)
Re:pathalogically geeky (Score:1)
My X-wing fighter will run circles around your planes.
Of course, sometimes I don't even need a plane!
The power of the imagination is more powerful than any computer simulation.
Spoken, I have!
Re:pathalogically geeky (Score:3, Funny)
Post this pAirline's URL... let's see how he handles being slashdotted. Nothin' like 20,000 requests
Re:pathalogically geeky (Score:2, Interesting)
And it's a matter of difference of opinion whether someone's obsession is pathological. You think J
Not pathologically geeky (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Not pathologically geeky (Score:2)
I wouldn't want to stop this guy (or other guys with similarly weird hobbies) doing their thing, let alone slashdot his site (as someone above suggests) to "punish" him for his socially unacceptable pasttime. If that's the way you floats your boat, then that's the way you floats your boat.
However, all this is fine in theory, but I found actually meeting the guy and being confronted with the sheer obsessiveness of his obsession a
Nooo! (Score:5, Funny)
"My Cockpit"? I bet he has a briefcase with the label "My Documents" on it.
Re:Nooo! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Nooo! (Score:3, Funny)
Macintosh Flight Sim 1.0 (Score:3, Interesting)
Some Photos (Score:5, Informative)
Uh oh (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, right. (Score:3, Funny)
in other words,
"I'll teach you to show off. Take THAT, webserver!"
"Good Luck" (Score:5, Informative)
Would this... (Score:4, Funny)
Pictures of other homemade cockpits (Score:4, Interesting)
Tons of pictures of other pretty cool looking homemade cockpits.
Relatively modest (Score:5, Funny)
No need to be envious. For a small sum of money, you too can be running on relatively modest PC hardware!
How about a real cockpit (Score:2, Interesting)
Is real flying too scary? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re: Is real flying too scary? (Score:2)
More people should try flying. It's cool, it's challenging, and you can actually go places without getting stuck in traffic!
One word: Freedom. (Score:2, Insightful)
- Freedom to fly from anywhere you want, instantly.
- Freedom to fly whatever plane you want.
- Freedom to disobey as many rules and laws as you want: FAA regulations, laws of physics, any international laws.
- Freedom to stop whenever you want, from the comfort of your own home. If you suddenl
Re: Is real flying too scary? (Score:2)
Re: Is real flying too scary? (Score:2)
Sheesh!
Cheaper than real flying?
Its betweeen $60-$100/hr to rent a cessna to fly. And thats just a piddly single engine job.
Flight Sims have their definate place. There a a HUGE number of reasons why you would spend this much on a flight sim. If I were to
Re: Is real flying too scary? (Score:2)
Agreed, however, when you're sick of forking over large chunks of your paycheck for said engine, you can return home and sit up front in the cockpit of a 747-400 and fly from New York to London. All for arround the same price as a couple of hours of real flying.
I use to fly, but got to
4 important questions (Score:2)
b) How long did it take to make?
c) What do you do for a living (running with "b", to see what skills he had to make this)
d) Will you design private cockpits, and for how much??
/. effect... (Score:2)
off topic (Score:1)
Re:.deb packages? (Score:2)
Re:Queue Jokes (Score:1)
Re:Queue Jokes (Score:2)
Mech Simulator? (Score:1, Funny)