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Making FSX FEEL real

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  • Commercial Member

Hey folks,

 

I have what I hope is a discussion starting question for everyone. We the most realistic 737 home simulator possible thanks to PMDG, but it is still on a screen. No matter the realism, we still have to click the mouse to flip switches, and most of us sit in an office chair while doing this.

 

What does everyone else do to make their sim feel more real while flying?

Collin Biedenkapp
Chief Executive Officer
TFDi Design (Invernyx) | Website

Track Ir 5.0

If you can´t read it, you can´t fly it. Real world B777F pilot

build home cockpit

[color=#a9a9a9][size=1][size=4][img]http://forum.avsim.net/public/style_images/flags/rs.png[/img][/size] Lj. Prodanovic[/size][/color]

  • Dress up like a pilot,
  • Watching a real life video before flying helps me alot,
  • Bounce around in your chair on Takeoff,
  • VATSIM!
  • Wide screens/Projectors
  • TrackIR

I find all these things Work well to some extent. :Peace:

I have my girlfriend kick my chair when landing to simulate gear touchdown.

Sadly she only did it once.

AJ Pongress

Boeing777_Banner_BetaTeam.jpg

Get A2A-s accu feel and a good (read big) set of speakers with good bass. Crank up the volume and enable the gear skreech on touchdown. If you have good speakers, you feel the damn thing, not hear it.

rs.png Vladimir Levkov / Владимир Левков

Two miles of road can take you two miles.Two miles of runway can take you anywhere in the world

vrinsight mcp II panel hands down for the cost involved.

 

Seconded. Good support from them too as well as Linda support. REX, Orbx, MegasceneryX SoCal. Other than that, EZDoc so I can quickly stay oriented around the airport (and get some nice views).

Gregg Seipp

"A good landing is when you can walk away from the airplane.  A great landing is when you can reuse it."
i9 64GB RAM, GTX-5090

Most of the time I use headphones, but If you have a good sub-woofer use It, it makes the sounds better.

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Fernando B ( I know I misspelled Boeing, I did it on purpose to make it Unique :) )

Right now I'm flight simming on a 40" HDTV with a PFC yoke, trackIR 5, and I have a 737 throttle on order from fsthrottles.com

 

It still doesn't feel "real" in the sim, even with vatsim and ATC.

 

I think the only way to feel completely immersed is to build a cockpit.

 

I'm starting to look at curve screen setups, projectors, and

 

But this is going to cost lots of money, and a wife which will be very unhappy. Unless of course I go the projector route, which can double as an entertainment system.

 

I would like to hear anyones affordable way of building a 180 degree visual cockpit.

Soarbywire - Avionics Engineering

 

Bounce around in your chair on Takeoff,

 

:LMAO: :LMAO: :LMAO: :LMAO: :LMAO:

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