I'm not bragging, but flying my little CRJ setup is really fun.

I use Project Magenta software I bought when it first came out (PM was organized enough, bless them, to still have record of my purchases) and some old laptops I had sitting around (after I had passed them down to all my kids after I upgraded and they returned them as they upgraded). Now if I can just figure out what to do with the engine display on the right (no keypad means I can't figure out how to scale it up).

The GoFLight modules are ones I bought (again, when they first came out) salvaged from a CRJ cockpit I made years ago.

Plus the fact that I like building things out of wood (notice how I embedded the laptop for the CDU in the little table I threw together to hold the Saitek throttles; also a little rack to hold my main monitor and the one with the primary flight display), and it was as much fun to build as it is to fly.

Oddly enough, FSX is being powered by an HP Pentium dual-core 2.0 MHz laptop (Win 7) that works just fine. I have the Megasceneryearth Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois where I do most of my flying (plus FLorida for fun) and Opus FSX for weather. Sliders aren't maxed out or anything, but Im more concerned with the weather and the cockpit activities to worry about autogen or ground movement.

I guess what I'm getting at is I did all this with not too much money and just enough computer power to get by, to just load up and do a flight from KEVV to KBNA or KSTL and pretend, just pretend (and get to Squawkbox when I get the nerve). Then I shut it down and get on with my life.

Enjoy and thanks to everyone who makes this such a great hobby.

 

Wow! Nice setup!

Nice setup!

Fun, looks like cords and cables galore!

 

I've been playing around with the idea of setting up something similar to your stacked displays for outside and mfd/pfd. I've been thinking of a 42" hdtv for the outside display, and one or two monitors mounted lower down for gauges, or VC views in GA planes. I just haven't settled on a setup that would allow me to be as flexible as possible when it comes to making it work for different planes.