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FAA approves flight simulator… for your living room
In my book, HotSeat's Flight Sim Chassis just might be the world’s best, if not the most expensive flight simulator made for individual use. It has a tubular steel frame with six speakers and 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound, with the center channel and subwoofer under the seat.
The built-in custom PC makes gives you the feeling of flying as it displays virtual skies on the trio of 22-inch LCD monitors in front of the seat — creating a 66-inch panoramic view. The flights are made possible by some serious hardware: a quad-core processore, an NVIDIA 512MB graphics card, 4GB of RAM, and Microsoft FS X Deluxe Edition with the Acceleration Expansion Pack preinstalled.
Even better, the software is FAA-approved for a Basic ATD Flight Simulator, so pilots in training can log up to 2.5 hours toward their pilots' licenses. The sim is available now, and cheaper than most airplanes at $17,250.
Via HotSeat Chassis
CORRECTION: We fixed the spelling of "RAM" after a commenter pointed out our blunder.
By Log1c at 2:00 PM ON 03/21/08
4gb of RAV! what is that?! special high tech stuff for aviation?
By Traveler at 3:38 PM ON 03/21/08
Better to use that curved screen shown at CES08 (by Alienware?),
By JSpahn at 10:34 PM ON 03/21/08
17 large for 2.5 logged hours, kinda pricey. What no gauges. $4,000, I might consider this setup.
By ITrush at 9:59 AM ON 03/23/08
Holy cow, that's beautiful.
Stumbled!
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By Phoghat at 10:08 AM ON 03/23/08
Jesus J. Xmas, I want it!!!!!!
By NMarez at 8:11 PM ON 06/29/08
Yeah, 17250 $ is way too steep for that.
My PC is faster then that, and it would cost me like 2-2.5k$ to build/buy the rest needed myself.
A quick runover and i would say there is hardware/manhours for like 5k us$ tops in that intire rig.
But then again, i guess this is kinda old as you say its run on some "serious" hardware wich it isnt if you ask me.
By av8zak at 2:36 AM ON 08/13/08
yea sorry i agree with the other guy 4,000$ tops
By chaseman at 1:06 PM ON 12/02/08
I would rather buy a plane. I cant see many of these selling at that price.
By chrisje at 2:09 AM ON 03/06/09
Why you dont buy a airplane?
By annoyed at 10:39 AM ON 04/19/09
ok...so i think 17k is a bit much for what you get...might be good for that guy that can't get his medical and fly a REAL airplane...but to log only 2.5 hours towards your rating..?? i would think, though, that they mean just towards your private pilot rating, as you are allowed to log 10 hours towards your Instrument rating on 'an approved flight simulator' according to Part 61 of the FAR's, an additional 2.5 again toward your multiengine and about 30 toward your commercial...but at 17K you are getting your hours at almost $600.00/hr. I think I would rather pay an instructor and learn in an airplane at about 200/hr...
as for the comment before me from Log1c...seriously...you are an unhappy person...you made fun of something that wasn't even there...it doesn't say 4gb of RAV....i'm sure you've never misspelled anything....
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