The DIY Flight Simulator. I’m sorry but some people have WAY too much time on their hands. And an unhealthily lustful appetite for work. It’s just not natural, know what I mean? Seven years of hard graft just to fly about a bit? Hmm, next life maybe.
It took me 3 years to finish the cockpit – the first stage of the building process, to be precise. I had built all those switches and displays into their panels, and I had three monitors sitting in front of me, displaying a synchronized view of the outside world with the help of the WideView program. 4.000 lines of EPL code made it all work. So, everything was set for happy flying…