I might just buy this!

[John Connor]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Boeing-737N...625142?hash=item1ea5f9b836:g:mAgAAOSw~OdVZQz-

Now I need 55 thousand dollars... :sneaky:

I wonder how much it would cost me to just buy the equipment from Project Magenta?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSZ7jkmGJNE

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Any middle eastern state playboy no doubt will be happy to buy this for their brothers in terrorism. Especially after yesterday's report on how pitiful the TSA is.

 

[John Connor]

Yeah, I saw that in the news about the TSA bull crap. One day I shit you not, one day they are gonna have to background check the $11/hour baggage handlers. Back before 9/11 I foreseen a plane crashing into a building. It came to me as a terrorist weapon after reading in the paper in the summer of '94 of a small prop crashing into the White House lawn.

One day they may in fact install giant X-ray machines at airport entrances for vehicles like they do on the border.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/13/u...es-plane-into-white-house.html?pagewanted=all

 

[Rakehellion]

Just buy one of these. Save your money.

http://www.velocityaircraft.com/airplane-kit-price.html

 

[John Connor]

I can't fly for medical issues. Unless the FAR changes, I'm stuck on the ground.

 

[DigDog]

terrorists only

 

[clamum]

Oh man that looks f'ing awesome!

 

[Insomniator]

I wonder what kind of computers/graphics cards run that thing? All custom stuff?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Per a guy from Church who is a real pilot, these things are kind of boring.

 

[IronWing]

Pet a guy from Church who is a real pilot, these things are kind of boring.

Maybe pet the stewardess instead for a little more excitement?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Maybe pet the stewardess instead for a little more excitement?

Hahaha oops

 

[John Connor]

Per a guy from Church who is a real pilot, these things are kind of boring.

Well, yeah, simming can be boring. Especially if you dare do a long haul flight. No way in hell am I flying from KJFK to Heathrow non-stop. If I go long-haul I take stops along the way, save and resume the flight. So I hop from one airport to the next. To me landing is the best experience. Especially if it's a CAT-III landing. I was flying into Nassau Bahamas and on approach it was zero visibility (I use live weather) and the felling you get seeing the approach lights and PAPI only 100 or less feet AGL from the runway is awesome! I mean, you have to depend on your instruments and only your instruments. Pretty bad ass. Especially if you fly the fully laden PMDG 737NG.

If I want to get somewhere in a hell of a hurry I take the F-22 up to 40,000 @ mach 2. LOL

I guess it's the technicality of it all. From reading the SIDS and STARS, plotting your route and cruising altitude to using all the gauges. You can really get into it and fly online with human ATC in VATSIM. But you need to know general flying principals. Like reading and interpreting an airport chart and following procedures and ATC instructions. So if ATC says turn left 142 degrees, descend and maintain 8,000, contact tower on 133.150 you better be able to repeat that all back and follow through.

 

[John Connor]

I wonder what kind of computers/graphics cards run that thing? All custom stuff?

They sell this hardware all connected to a computer and master controller for lack of a better word. Project Magenta is the software developer for this stuff. The FMC alone can cost over a thousand the last I looked.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Any middle eastern state playboy no doubt will be happy to buy this for their brothers in terrorism. Especially after yesterday's report on how pitiful the TSA is.

Yeah, because we, the passengers, will let you hijack a plane and run it into stuff or crash it, again.