You know those insane setups the military uses to train pilots on? They can cost millions, making owning one in your own home a pipe dream. But that doesn’t mean you can never own a fancy flight simulator!
You just have to lower your aim a little, and instead of looking at something that costs millions, look at something that costs USD$57,000.
That something is the OVO-4, a home flight simulator capsule that has hydraulic movement, three 24-inch monitors and a full flight control sytem built into the cockpit.
Making it useful for Falcon 3.0, yeah, but also for Battlefield 3.
OVO-4 Home Flight Simulator [Firebox, via technabob]
Chazz
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:59 PMDoes having all that in a “cockpit” really make it worth $40+k more than an equivalent setup in regular room?
Lobo
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:41 PMI can’t imagine the hydraulics are cheap.
Chazz
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 11:14 PMMy mistake, I actually missed the hydraulics part.
Crazyguy1990
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 11:07 PMFalcon 3.0?
Surely you mean Falcon 4.0.
Senor Freebie
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 11:47 PMI wonder if anyone is lame enough to get one of these to just play arcadish games like Battlefield?
Thom
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 12:34 AMI’m lucky in that I have access to the Macquarie Uni simulator. But I have to say, damn these things got cheap quick. Five years ago you were looking at a few million for a hydraulic sim.