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Slightly OT...  Web page for a guy making a flight simulator?

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hill4448@gmail.com - 11 Feb 2010 01:56 GMT
Hey all!

Several years and computer crashes ago, I had come
across a web page by a dude who was making his
own flight simulator and was building everything from
surplus/salvage equipment.  He was using an actual
ejection seat, control columns, real instruments and
had a bank of monitors.  I've lost the web page and
after an hour or so on Google can't seem to find it.

Does anyone know if the page is still around and how
much updating he's done to his system?

Thanks a bunch!
Stephen Bierce - 11 Feb 2010 07:06 GMT
>Hey all!
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>Thanks a bunch!

Just poking around Google:

>http://www.hanskrohn.com/
>http://homebuilt-cockpit.masternerd.com/
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>http://www.bestweb.net/~kcoyne/f100proj.htm
>http://www.simsamurai.net/

Hope this helps!

Stephen "FPilot" Bierce/IPMS #35922
http://frustratedpilot.livejournal.com
kim - 21 Feb 2010 02:02 GMT
> Hey all!
>
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> ejection seat, control columns, real instruments and
> had a bank of monitors.

Probably best to disarm the ejector seat first, or else cut a big hole in
the ceiling? :o)

(kim)
Richard Brooks - 21 Feb 2010 02:43 GMT
kim said the following on 21/02/2010 02:02:
>> Hey all!
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> (kim)

It's a growing disease.  You'll probably do as I do and look in the
standard flight simulator forums then find side-links to full cockpits
 with systems that use real display units.  All these people are
probably single, btw!

I never knew that Microsoft would even give a nod in that direction
though?

<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=F09AE3DB-D579-4032-99A8
-CD459FD8009D&amp;displaylang=en&displaylang=en
>

http://www.wideview.it/my_cockpit.htm
http://buggies.builtforfun.co.uk/Sim/
http://www.rogerdodger.net/diyflightsims.html
http://www.fscockpit.com/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds9ihruc67s
frank - 21 Feb 2010 09:07 GMT
> kim said the following on 21/02/2010 02:02:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds9ihruc67s
A few decades ago, used to have the F-15 simulator up and running. One
of the engineers who actually flew the F-15 said it was a pretty good
simulator. I think we were running it on an Atari, have to think about
it. Then the B-1 would take off or get ready to and we'd go back to
work. Sort of weird at the time. If the programmers actually knew who
was running the program and where it was being run. ....

Ran across a guy a few years later, he actually collected surplus
stuff. Had an F-111 escape module, entire thing. My future wife knew I
wanted one of those for the living room....right.....would be nice to
check the model building though.
Rufus - 21 Feb 2010 18:56 GMT
>> kim said the following on 21/02/2010 02:02:
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> wanted one of those for the living room....right.....would be nice to
> check the model building though.

Most of the F/A-18 jocks I know say that the Hornet 3.0 sim flight model
is pretty near exactly how the the real jet flies...with the exception
of the engine model.  The sim is severely under thrusted when reduced to
a single engine.

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AM - 21 Feb 2010 20:53 GMT
> Most of the F/A-18 jocks I know say that the Hornet 3.0 sim flight model
> is pretty near exactly how the the real jet flies...with the exception
> of the engine model.  The sim is severely under thrusted when reduced to
> a single engine.

Wow, do you bring back memories here. I still have that loaded on a 486
DX/2 66 I did like the Hornet a lot6, but the MiG 29 was my favorite
back then I also have Tornado loaded on this machine

I play Falcon 4.0 now and it still is one of the best flight sim's ever.
I'm just hooked on F 16's...

Online I'm on hyperlobby with IL 2 1946, if any of ya all play this let
me know. My favorite A/C to fly is the I 153. That or a Zero is second,
and a Yak 3 third, tho I'm getting real partial to the P 51 !

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Rufus - 21 Feb 2010 21:05 GMT
>> Most of the F/A-18 jocks I know say that the Hornet 3.0 sim flight
>> model is pretty near exactly how the the real jet flies...with the
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> me know. My favorite A/C to fly is the I 153. That or a Zero is second,
> and a Yak 3 third, tho I'm getting real partial to the P 51 !

I used to pull a trick with Falcon 1.0 on teh PC where I wrote a batch
routine that would automatically set a RAM drive, copy the program to
it, and then execute it from there...but it ran so fast that way that
you couldn't actually play it - upset the timing of the "real time".

Falcon 4.0 is the single best desktop flight sim I've ever seen...and
I've had my hands on some full-up, full cockpit domed sims.  About the
only thing it doesn't seem to model correctly are the effects of gross
weight and drag as you load the jet out and/or burn fuel.  The bogey AI
is also pretty good.

I've got the Mac version running on my old Sawtooth and am in the throws
of building a low to medium fi cockpit for it myself, using my 22"
display as the control panel and my 55" LED TV as the out the window.

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Rufus - 21 Feb 2010 18:53 GMT
> kim said the following on 21/02/2010 02:02:
>>> Hey all!
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds9ihruc67s

...I'm a sim addict myself, but CRAP...why don't people just get a
pilots license already?  I did...

...is fun though.

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