Homemade Flight Simulator.

Buddy of mine picked up a superannuated flight simulator @ NASA surplus - cost him around 2500 USD for the hardware and scammed the soft for beer and weed. Probably not the latest issue, but makes a great party center!

is there a site or an internet auction for NASA surplus ?

thanks

For $230,000 he should've just went through flight training and bought a real plane!

I'm a pilot and I build very realistic home built flight simulator cockpits. Mine cost about $500 in materials and ~$2,500 in PC equipment. I employ alot of virtual displays and use tactile gauges and avionics where most crucial for training. My sims are also more flexible in that you can display different glass cockpits such as the G1000.

While my designs are not full motion replica sims I can still reproduce any aircraft cockpit in very high detail for ohh about $225,000 less than what this is and still get a very realistic and worthwhile training environment. Its certainly much more accsessible to the home market.

Jeff / www.simsamurai.net