The Ultimate Game Cabinet

[koolmoecraig]

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/bedroom-747/man-builds-30000-jumbo-jet-simulator-in-his-bedroom-312735.php

[koolmoecraig]

The control panel looks like some of the ones that I've seen from people on here.

[ChadTower]

AD: And finally, what else do you keep in your spare bedroom?
JD: "There's no room for anything else—that's why my wife had to go!"

 

[boykster]

Next month, John and a bunch of his mates are simulating a round-the-world trip

that sounds like a hoot....here, sit in this chair for the next 18 hours whilst we pretend to fly around the world 

[ChadTower]

...for more than the cost of an actual trip.

[shardian]

If I had to guess, the government is already keeping tabs on his setup.

My father-in-law was big into those flight sims.  It eventually led to him getting his pilots license and buying a Beechcraft Bonanza plane. He flies up here to visit now instead of driving, so I guess those sims do help in the long run. 

I played once or twice, but prefered doing illegal maneuvers and disentigrating my plane in midair, or just flat out crashing into the ground.

[Dartful Dodger]

There is a side kick on a morning radio show in Chicago that plays the Microsoft game.

He would record conversations he'd have during online play.  People host airports on their server, and they'd let other people use the runway.  He'd go on the runway and make requests like taking off on the taxi, play demolition derby with planes waiting to take off, or he would just kamikaze into other planes or crash on the runway.  He said you can’t actually hit other planes, but the other pilots would get pist just the same.

The sites were all over the world.  Usually they would booted him off after the second prank but there was a preteenager in England who was the airtraffic controller and he just kept trying to politely ask the guy to knock it off.

He kept warning him that he would boot him from the server, but didn't.  Either the whole polite Englishman thing is true or this kid wasn't able to kick him off.

It was funny listening to the kid and other pilots at the airport getting frustrated.

[boykster]

I played once or twice, but prefered doing illegal maneuvers and disentigrating my plane in midair, or just flat out crashing into the ground.

Ever since Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer I've been doing illegal maneuvers and disentigrating planes....

[gavkiwi]

that is cool, I wonder how accurate his set up really is. Most impressive 

[Samstag]

I used to work with a guy who got hired by a "virtual airline" where he would do regular routes in MS Flight Sim for "fun".  And it wasn't just a matter of setting up the autopilot and letting it do the work.  His "manager" might insert a thunderstorm or fail a hydraulic system at any time to make sure he was paying attention and could deal with problems.

I asked him if he met any hot stewardesses and he said (with a straight face) that he didn't get flight attendants because he was flying cargo routes and wouldn't get passenger flights until he had more experience and seniority.

And to top it off, this was his idea of fun after finishing an 8-hour workday of maintaining and flying real FAA-certified flight simulators.