757 cockpit nose section!http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Boeing-757-...39%3A1|72%3A317

My god would my wife kill me.If I ever came in to a lot of money and didn't have to work anymore, I would buy something like that and build a awesome home cockpit. I've always wonder how much those cost. $15,000 sounds reasonable but it would probably cost as much to ship.

I wonder what frame rates you get when looking through those windows? I bet it would be fun to use something like that to build a sim (being cheap I'm actually building one from wood), 15 grand is a bit out of the price range for me.Al

I flew into Laurinburg-Maxton (KMEB) a few months ago. There is a salvage operation down there, and seeing how I needed cross country time I decided to check it out.While there I asked the manager of the place how much a Boeing yoke would set me back. He asked me how much I had... :( Of course it was too expensive for me, but I have always wondered if I could have built it into a controller for my computer...Anyway, I have too much shame and not enough money, so that takes care of that.

Back in 2000, I attended the Microwings Magazine flight sim conference in Seattle. The publisher- Robert Montgomery, trucked his sim all the way from Texas.It consisted of the complete nose and forward cabin -including all seats, of a small commercial jet- Fokker perhaps?Cockpit had separate view monitors for both Cap/FO in place of windscreens, plus side view mons. And of course dual yokes and pedals.Cabin had a side view monitor in each window- beside every original passenger seat- 4 in total. It created a remarkable life like sensation just sitting as a passenger. If I remember correctly, Robert had 7 networked PCs running this creation!---------Also at this show, Matrox displayed their G400 'Dual Head' video card running multiple monitors.These two displays set me on fire to explore multi mons and I never looked back- the only way to fly!(I also had the great luck to win a draw for a set of PFC Cirrus pedals- another advance in the quest for realisic simming.)Shortly after the Seattle conference, Microwings stopped publishing. Robert is one of the forgotten pioneers of today's world of flight simming. Anyone know where he is nowadays?Alex Reid

Back in 2000, I attended the Microwings Magazine flight sim conference in Seattle. The publisher- Robert Montgomery, trucked his sim all the way from Texas.It consisted of the complete nose and forward cabin -including all seats, of a small commercial jet- Fokker perhaps?Cockpit had separate view monitors for both Cap/FO in place of windscreens, plus side view mons. And of course dual yokes and pedals.Cabin had a side view monitor in each window- beside every original passenger seat- 4 in total. It created a remarkable life like sensation just sitting as a passenger. If I remember correctly, Robert had 7 networked PCs running this creation!---------Also at this show, Matrox displayed their G400 'Dual Head' video card running multiple monitors.These two displays set me on fire to explore multi mons and I never looked back- the only way to fly!(I also had the great luck to win a draw for a set of PFC Cirrus pedals- another advance in the quest for realisic simming.)Shortly after the Seattle conference, Microwings stopped publishing. Robert is one of the forgotten pioneers of today's world of flight simming. Anyone know where he is nowadays?Alex Reid

I'm a Trackir guy myself. One big monitor. Cool stuff though!

I'm a Trackir guy myself. One big monitor. Cool stuff though!

Hi Zach- Back in the 90's, MicroWings Mag was the only source of sim info for a lot of us- no internet available for me until 2000- and then only dialup. Robert Montgomery and his quarterly magazine were avidly awaited!-------I've been looking for someone with a large monitor to try an experiment- displaying triple views on a single mon. You get a 135