britfrog 180 Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 Here we have a great site with lots of eye candy. They have a really neat 737 cockpit with projection images all in a self contained box to take home The price ? a cool €293,000 !!!!!!!!!!!! I can just hear all the youngsters in the US "Dad can I have one of these? its only 293K I will do the dishwashing for the next few weeks and wash your car" PLEASE!!!! Awwww come on Dad its a special deal it wont be repeated, I will even stop asking for the latest nike shoes! Good grief! . Buying a real cockpit of a 737 albeit without guages is chicken feed compared to this, I can buy a 727 front end right now for a grand and it has a few guages left behind. Where did I go wrong? I am just a penny strapped retired pilot? I wont even rush out to pay €32 for the latest ftx scenery being the skinflint that I am. 293 K My god my house cost that !! come to think of itI could buy 10 perfectly airworthy cessna 150/172 's for the same money, why bother with a sim when you can have 10 real airplanes to choose from What planet are these guys from? http://www.flightsimulatorcenter.com/ Link to post Share on other sites
needles 1,013 Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 Wow Nigel, What a find. We in the UK can get it for a mere £249,978.58 If nothing else, it's a great site for, as you say, eye candy. Superb product but I wonder how many they have sold. I will have to go back from time to time, just to drool. I was looking for the flight sim in a shed really, not a sodding hangar. They are kidding themselves on the prices but good luck to them. Cheers. Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted April 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 Wow Nigel, What a find. We in the UK can get it for a mere £249,978.58 If nothing else, it's a great site for, as you say, eye candy. Superb product but I wonder how many they have sold. I will have to go back from time to time, just to drool. I was looking for the flight sim in a shed really, not a sodding hangar. They are kidding themselves on the prices but good luck to them. Cheers. thanks m8 was re-editing my thread and saw that you had already looked at it. Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted April 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 come to think of it someone should feature this on a comedy show, Imagine the scene a kid walks into a drug store (pharmacy) ohh can i have a pack of three please? ,err not the ones with ribs on them please, yes sir will that be all ? no some lube please, and some chewing gum , oh yeah and i will take one of those cockpits while i am here they seem good value for entertainment . I can just imagine Dave Allen or cheech and chong doing a sketch like this. Link to post Share on other sites
needles 1,013 Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 I've just shown the site to Wifey. 'Buy a lottery ticket, it's the only way you'll get one'. Nuff said. Hey Ho! Link to post Share on other sites
Quickmarch 488 Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 Maybe it's time for me to trade in the sailboat on one of these: http://www.flightsimulatorcenter.com/News.aspx?lang=ENG&ID=c4602e5e-af98-478a-bf74-eb46d6b03299 I love this line - Powered by a network of 10 custom high-specs industrial computers the system is easy to operate, compact, energy-friendly and with near-zero maintenance. These guys are definitely not hooked up to reality. I have trouble keeping ONE computer running, never mind ten. Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Caveman 0 Posted April 11, 2013 Report Share Posted April 11, 2013 Powered by a network of 10 custom high-specs industrial computers the system is easy to operate, compact, energy-friendly and with near-zero maintenance. These guys are definitely. not hooked up to reality. I have trouble keeping ONE computer running, never mind ten. Don't we all? Lmao energy friendly? I bet its cheaper to run a cessna than it is for electricity. Glen Link to post Share on other sites
Gunner 69 Posted April 11, 2013 Report Share Posted April 11, 2013 You know how it's said - not the one who asks the price is the crazy, but the one who pays it. Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Caveman 0 Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Are 10 high spec INDUSTRIAL computers really compact? I have 1 home computer and it takes up a lot of room with my desk, printer and flight stuff! Link to post Share on other sites
flybytes 34 Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Do have to have a chuckle at some of the comments in this posting. Some of the components of professional flight simulators are aircraft certified and the cost of them would make you cringe, but if you required your simulator to be CAA, FAA or military certified those are the prices you would have to pay. Add at least 1 '0' to prices quoted in this forum and you would be nearer reality! As an example: a circular crt in the Tornado F2/F3 simulator IOS (going back to the 1990's) was an average years pay at the time and could be destroyed in less than a second if the anode voltage was turned up too high. Ray. Link to post Share on other sites
adrians69 159 Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 I'll take 2!!! Link to post Share on other sites
needles 1,013 Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 You know how it's said - not the one who asks the price is the crazy, but the one who pays it.Hey Gunner,I love the quote. It made me chuckle. Having said that, watch this crazy person WHEN, I say when, I win the lottery. Ha ha. The only stumbling block might be my wife. I have to run every purchase by her first. The problem will be, trying to convince her it's for the central heating in the house. Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,316 Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 One of my favorites: A man wins the lottery running into his house he yells at his wife. "I've just won the lottery, start packing!". "Great" says his wife, "What should I pack, where am I going?". "I don't care" replies her husband .. "as long as your gone by noon." Link to post Share on other sites
needles 1,013 Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Good one Brett. I doubt vey much that I'd get away with that line of attack. Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted April 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 The interesting thing is that the eula of fsx specifically says it cannot be used for professional training, ----hence P3D---- However these guys quote fsx. I find it interesting that they show their typical clientelle as a guy who has a large boat that clearly costs millions, do they think this kind of client would be interested in their ware? I rather think not they would actually own a gulfstream IV and fly it. Link to post Share on other sites
needles 1,013 Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Well said Nigel. It would be interesting to see how much we could build one for, if all the techie guys on MH got together. Now that would be an interesting meet, don't you think. The first Mutley's Hangar Fest'. I bet we could build one cheaper. But don't quote me. Link to post Share on other sites
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