Sim Icarus Boeing 777 Handmade Flight Deck 254
ShadowsMV writes "Three technology students finishing up their degrees at the DuPage Campus of DeVry University spent a term designing and building one of the most nifty flight simulators yet. Named the Sim Icarus Flight Deck, it accurately recreates the primary flight accessory controls of the Boeing 777, and interfaces directly with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. They have tons of pictures and lists of everything you need! Previous flight decks featured on slashdot include An awesome homebuilt and wideview with 13 Monitors And 9 PCs."
Re:DeVry University? (Score:5, Informative)
Flight Deck Solutions (Score:4, Informative)
Re:3D idea for this setup (Score:4, Informative)
M$ Flight sim?! (Score:5, Informative)
Somebody buy these guys a copy of X-Plane [x-plane.com]!. If not for the better environments and the fully customizable aircraft, then at least for the fact that the entire simulation can be controlled remotely over UDP.
Re:FFS, use something like Flickr to host photos (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Wrong (Score:3, Informative)
The legal drinking age is 18 in Manitoba, Alberta and Quebec! Everywhere else its 19.
Re:3D idea for this setup (Score:2, Informative)
A back of the envelope calculation gives 0.004 degrees difference in angle between your two lines of sight at 1 km, or 16 arcseconds. Your eye's resolution (they are pretty much diffraction-limited, AFAIK) is something like twice that, so you'd only get any kind of 3d effect on stuff within ~500metres - probably less. (This is assuming your projectors aren't the limiting factor in resolution.) So, it would be helpful for landing, but pretty useless mid-flight. On the other hand, it would be a brilliant setup for fragging!
XPlane is only part of the FAA package: (Score:3, Informative)
Course, MSFS ain't certified for squats under ANY circumstances...it's just a game.
DeVry Mirror (Score:1, Informative)