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Homemade Flight Simulator Takes Off
Australian hobbyist, amateur pilot
and truck company owner, Matthew Sheil, spent eight years building this replica
of a 747 cockpit. 
Visuals are provided by a high definition, 42in Philips
Ambilight display while 13 Quad-core Voodoo PCs are hooked up to provide the
juice.
From his perch, nine feet off the
ground, Sheil can fly a whole lot safer and cheaper than the real thing. The set-up even
provides real-time weather reports, pre-flight checks and air traffic control
updates from other simulation players. Is it finished?
“It’s like a painting,” he says.
“It’s never done.”
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