I have a 747 parked in my garage at home...

[erkpod]

One of the first games I ever played was an older version of flight sim, around '95 or thereabouts, still I primary school. I loved trying to fly between the antenna on Sears tower.

Last time I went to Flight Experience in Sydney, I flew under the Golden Gate Bridge.

 

[Buzzard]

Now if we could just plan the inaugural AFF flight.....

 

[mjt57]

I am, at this stage I've only hooked up a monitor at the front, however sitting to the left and right are 3 (and soon to be 4) more monitors which will give a 180 degree view "outside"

When I did the Flight Experience B737 sim (in Melbourne) I was wondering where you could buy the outside screen from. It was a curved or wrap around LCD type display. The graphics were impressive in how they were displayed.

Other hardware aside I'd imagine that this alone would be quite expensive.

Dunno what the software that runs in the background is, but everything seemed to be authentic.

 

[harvyk]

When I did the Flight Experience B737 sim (in Melbourne) I was wondering where you could buy the outside screen from. It was a curved or wrap around LCD type display. The graphics were impressive in how they were displayed.

Other hardware aside I'd imagine that this alone would be quite expensive.

Dunno what the software that runs in the background is, but everything seemed to be authentic.

I'm cheating a little bit and making do with 5 led screens of various sizes placed roughly where the outside windows would be. Whilst it won't be perfect, it should be enough to fool the mind into believing there is motion going on "outside". That was certainly the feeling I got when I did my proof of concept machine. I'm using a product called wide view across the systems as this means that each monitor has it's own computer running behind it, and each monitor can be calibrated so that the view it shows is at the proper sizes and angles.

The software running in the background is MS flight sim, with PMDG 747 loaded on top of it (the sim logic and the software which is displaying the screens which you see) with my own software running on top of that (for hardware interface and for where PMDG wasn't quite close enough to the real thing).

 

[mjt57]

I'm suitably impressed.

Please excuse my dumbness here, but exactly what is driving the instro panel displays? They certainly look authentic, given my limited experience in the B737 sim.

 

[harvyk]

I'm suitably impressed.

Please excuse my dumbness here, but exactly what is driving the instro panel displays? They certainly look authentic, given my limited experience in the B737 sim.

The majority of the display screens come from -> PMDG 747-400X -> https://www.precisionmanuals.com/pages/product/FSX/744x.html
I'm building a few tweaks to it to cover off the missing systems (most notably the weather radar)

 

[mjt57]

Just had a look. No Mac compatibility. Drat...

 

[knightman7]

Wow...very impressive work! Are you going to post any updated pics of your work? Would love to see the finished product.

 

[AVC]

You know you could buy an entire 747 from Mohave for maybe 60K (that's what the one cost for the movie War of the Worlds).
But then it's another quarter mill to move it. And that was just to Cali.

Maybe you could just take the bits you need. They probably insist you take the whole thing though..

Last time I went to Flight Experience in Sydney, I flew under the Golden Gate Bridge.

Last time I was in SF, I flew under the Golden Gate bridge.