All that hardware and then just… a chair.
Not to mention the Ikea table.
How do we know that this room isn’t in a plane? :-P
It’s plane-ception?
It’s not even a full motion setup, you can go way more expensive and still be cheaper than an actual plane
A friend of mine makes force feedback controllers and he has like so much business from guys like that.
I don’t get this…at this point just take real fucking pilot lessons. It’ll probably be cheaper than buying this equipment lmao.
There’s also the issue of medical. Someone might not be able to medically get a pilots license, but can pull up a chair. It might not have anything to do with money.
Why so few monitors??
I’m going to take a guess that this sim setup is mainly for IFR or instrument flying. I know some people that do virtual airline stuff and they follow real life as closely as they can, so after taking off its auto-pilot on and using instruments for navigation instead of visual landmarks.
I’d say good chance this guy does have a plane.
Some of those things for PC flight sims are straight up real cockpit pieces. Dude is simply buying his plane one bit at a time until he can assemble the whole thing.
Some people are so dedicated to their hobbies and I love seeing it.
An extended family member of mine hosted a reunion at his house years ago, and he apparently lived in a neighborhood where many people have small airplane hangars attached to their houses instead of a normal garage. It was nuts. You’re just walking through a normal-looking house in a normal-looking suburban neighborhood, go through what would otherwise be a garage door, and suddenly you’re in a big hangar.
Do you know how much it costs to annual a Cessna 172? You could build 3 of these rigs a year for what the aviation equivalent of a 1988 Toyota Camry costs to maintain and fuel.
First time I got into one, this was my exact reaction: wtf this thing is like a 1980s corolla turned onto an aircraft. I was sure I’d get killed in that rickety pos.
Only a single monitor, and then it’s not even an ultrawide?
What kind of a low-rent setup is this?
The Alienware ultra wide oled is one of the biggest upgrades I’ve ever felt when upgrading my computer. Absolute game changer.
Maybe I just want to try that obviously terrible approach to check if I’m right about my skills you know?
Have to land that Harrier vertically on the side of a dam.
The one with all the wind on that god awful little mud hill?
Why do some people love an array of hundreds of knobs?
I’m doing the same with my work from home set-up. I even have a mannequin dressed up as a “boss” who hovers at my shoulder while I try to get stuff done .
Pretty cool with the overhead and side panels.
Yeah but what percentage of them are actually functional? In MS Flight Sim half the buttons in the planes do nothing.
The $20 chair is definitely a statement of priorities and my favorite part of the image.
