[ivox3]

Yep, ...it exists.

http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/ga ... e&mon=desc

[Leonardo]

http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/ga ... e&mon=desc

[Leonardo]

my dad would kill for a setup like this

http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/ga ... e&mon=desc

[Leonardo]

some of these pics seem to come out straight from maxwell's site

[b-kandor]

I've set up cockpits like that for documentaries before - it's not that hard or that expensive especially these days with the cost of LCD's.

On one setup I had one pc with 5 video cards in it driving all the monitors with gauges, networked to 3 seperate pc's for the 'out the window' monitors.

Here's what one of them looked like.
(but all my pics show only gauges and not the outside monitors )

PS. the backlight for the physical switches are just colored squares on the monitors in areas hidden by the bezel.

[Leonardo]

I've set up cockpits like that for documentaries before - it's not that hard or that expensive especially these days with the cost of LCD's.

On one setup I had one pc with 5 video cards in it driving all the monitors with gauges, networked to 3 seperate pc's for the 'out the window' monitors.

Here's what one of them looked like.
(but all my pics show only gauges and not the outside monitors )

PS. the backlight for the physical switches are just colored squares on the monitors in areas hidden by the bezel.

I'm not quite sure what am I looking at...

I'm also not sure what the word "expensive " means to you

[b-kandor]

Your looking at a 'fake' cockpit - The bezel is mounted in front of several crt monitors - the monitors I programmed in flightsim to display enlarged versions of the various gauges on a black background. Pretend switches etc. are mounted in the bezel etc. etc.

This was used for a documentary on discover channel a few years ago now.

As for cost, if you can put together a few pc's and a few monitors on a desktop with a yoke and rudder pedals your 90% there for a few thousand bucks! Of course the sky is the limit....

[Leonardo]

Your looking at a 'fake' cockpit - The bezel is mounted in front of several crt monitors - the monitors I programmed in flightsim to display enlarged versions of the various gauges on a black background. Pretend switches etc. are mounted in the bezel etc. etc.

This was used for a documentary on discover channel a few years ago now.

As for cost, if you can put together a few pc's and a few monitors on a desktop with a yoke and rudder pedals your 90% there for a few thousand bucks! Of course the sky is the limit....

how much would have been for the one pictured for the discovery channel?

[ivox3]

Scott: .....that is very cool.

[b-kandor]

Thx: it was a fun project - (except for reading all the incident reports) - luckily I'm into airplanes...

Leaving for oshkosh on saturday:

http://www.airventure.org

[j_man]

hahaha these guys are nuts!?!? "because it looks really cool"


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[Maxer]

Thx: it was a fun project - (except for reading all the incident reports) - luckily I'm into airplanes...

Leaving for oshkosh on saturday:

http://www.airventure.org

Why didn't they just take a picture of a real cockpit, woulden't that have been cheaper?

[b-kandor]

It was the whole cockpit - seats, yokes etc and working gauges all mounted on a gimbal - so actors sat in the seats and were filmed re-enacting the various scenes etc. Meanwhile flightsim would be moving the gauges and creating all the auditory klaxons, alarms etc. on que.

[Maxer]

You made all of that for a few thousand bucks wow! I thought all you did was make pretty pictures you actually have some stills too.

[b-kandor]

No, more than a few K!


What I was saying you can do for a few K is setup a pretty nice multiple screen rig for flight sims 'without' all the cockpit stuff. Actually, pretty pictures are still last on my skillset list! (along with sub-d modelling hehe).

I started out building prototypes and patterns.