I was reading the news paper and i saw an article about a guy who is building an entire 777 Cockbit in his room

the website is www.the777project.com

it is simply amazing.

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you got that right

EGAD! I wish I had as much money as that person! I would skip all of the fancy rudder pedals and yokes and install a 4 axis moving cockpit system! (yaw, pitch, roll and Vertical movement for turbulence) of course for the same amount of money I could rent a plane for about 20 hrs!

Chomp,

Yeah..... but it isn't likely that you'll sit in the left seat of THAT kind of plane  .


The picture at the top of this thread here is really impressive...... but it is FAR less impressive than some of the homebuilt cockpits I have seen in doing my research on the net.  There are people who are buying REAL 747 cockpits and moving them into a garage and turning them into full motion simulators.  The budgets for some of these projects must be HUGE.  There is one awesome F15 simulator that is the real front end of the aircraft... and the flight instruments are being rebuilt to "work" (sse the "survery" thread for that address).

In those cases....... it starts to get pretty "off the deep end"  .  But I guess if you HAVE the bucks....... whatever floats your boat.

My homebuilt cockpit will be FAR less involved....or expensive.  Still not cheap....... but it'll cost far less than you might think.  Won;t cost me what many spend on ski gear, a dirt bike, a snowmobile and so on.


best,

.....................john