Hi Everybody,

Reworked my night lighting edits and went for a night flight.

Southwest Airlines (Flight 2962) with nonstop service from Chicago (KMDW) to St. Louis (KSTL) - Night Flight

 

On 2/26/2025 at 8:15 PM, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

Hi Everybody,

Reworked my night lighting edits and went for a night flight.

Southwest Airlines (Flight 2962) with nonstop service from Chicago (KMDW) to St. Louis (KSTL) - Night Flight

 

I guess it is you Mike. What is the story here? Is this in your home? Is it your business? Do you rent time on it? Is it at a flight school?

2 hours ago, alanw2005 said:

I guess it is you Mike. What is the story here? Is this in your home? Is it your business? Do you rent time on it? Is it at a flight school?

Hi Alan,

This is in my two car garage, I don't rent time nor am I affiliated with any flight school. 

3 hours ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

Hi Alan,

This is in my two car garage, I don't rent time nor am I affiliated with any flight school. 

That's crazy awesome. What is the retail cost of that? I am thinking I would have an airbnb suite and rent out  a room called the pilot's getaway suite. 

 

Edited May 28, 20251 yr by alanw2005

26 minutes ago, alanw2005 said:

That's crazy awesome. What is the retail cost of that? am thinking I would have an airbnb suite and rent out  a room called the pilot's getaway suite. 

 

You are looking at six figures, it was about 100K just about 10 years ago when I first got my flight deck professionally built by Flightdeck solutions.

24 minutes ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

You are looking at six figures, it was about 100K just about 10 years ago when I first got my flight deck professionally built by Flightdeck solutions.

So something like this today would be $100,000?

https://www.aviasim.ca/

Why don't you monetize it? Get a business license and make cash?

What kind of video card does that run on?

So you can run MSFS 2024 or X-Plane 12?

Can you log hours?

Edited May 28, 20251 yr by alanw2005

8 hours ago, alanw2005 said:

So something like this today would be $100,000?

https://www.aviasim.ca/

Why don't you monetize it? Get a business license and make cash?

What kind of video card does that run on?

So you can run MSFS 2024 or X-Plane 12?

Can you log hours?

With the advancements they have made over the years, you could get one prebuild for about 100K, it would be cheaper if you did a lot of the work yourself. Making the shell, cutting openings for your switches, dials, glass screens, drilling and soldering, running wires and controller boards. Then there's the computer/networking side of things that need to be addressed.

Too expensive to get a commercial license and do it the right/legal way. Aside from that, the wife doesn't want tons of people in the home.

The video boards are Asus 4090s.

I can run either P3D, XP11/XP12 and/or MS2020/MS2024 (Hardware/Software Interface for P3D is via Sim-Avionics - for XPlane it's via FDStoXP and for Microsoft Flight Simulator it's Device Interface Manager.

If the flight deck had a commercial license and was attached to a flight school, one could log time for use in the real world.
 

7 minutes ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

With the advancements they have made over the years, you could get one prebuild for about 100K, it would be cheaper if you did a lot of the work yourself. Making the shell, cutting openings for your switches, dials, glass screens, drilling and soldering, running wires and controller boards. Then there's the computer/networking side of things that need to be addressed.

Too expensive to get a commercial license and do it the right/legal way. Aside from that, the wife doesn't want tons of people in the home.

The video boards are Asus 4090s.

I can run either P3D, XP11/XP12 and/or MS2020/MS2024 (Hardware/Software Interface for P3D is via Sim-Avionics - for XPlane it's via FDStoXP and for Microsoft Flight Simulator it's Device Interface Manager.

If the flight deck had a commercial license and was attached to a flight school, one could log time for use in the real world.
 

So are you still flying real planes? You were a flight instructor? What type ratings do you have?

4 minutes ago, alanw2005 said:

So are you still flying real planes? You were a flight instructor? What type ratings do you have?

I flew many years ago in the New York area, Cessna's 150/172/182RG with American Flyers out of Long Island. That was well before they built up Mac Arthur airport (KISP) to what it is today. Only airline out of KISP back then was Southwest and they exited and entered the aircraft via the tarmac, they didn't have any gates or terminals.

No type rating, only time I have in the 737NGs are about 16 hours (multiple sessions, very late at night... more like very early in the morning) in multi-million dollar simulators. I took my Flow/Checklist with me on one occasion to see just how accurate it was to the real deal. It was found to be 99% in line with Boeing's FCOM, only real differences are airline specific changes based on equipment packages selected.