would you buy thishttp://www.flyit.com/PTH.htmlor go ahead and splurge for the real thing?hmmm decisions decisionsc ya :-waveBart [email protected]http://bartsflyplace.tripod.com/pics/ryans...ight/flight.gif http://bartsflyplace.tripod.com/bart_logo3.jpg

Good heavens... Thats a complete and utter ripoff if you ask me. You can build one from scratch, with fully working simulated physical instrument controls for a fraction of the cost!While it is based on a Cessna 172, check out The Real Cockpit packages that are just becoming available:http://www.therealcockpit.comTheir is available right now for $5000. Their Free Standing ATD will run $25,000 (and include the full -realistic- radio stack as well). The Free Standing looks to be equivilant to that Helo package in size and function, with the huge difference that it will have realistic physical instrumentation and a full 180 degree projection system instead of a simple monitor and software with a front screen! Even better, they will have a self-contained *full motion* version sometime in the next eight months for far less than a hundred thousand. Heck, I'm sure I could put one of those Helo packages together from scratch and some programming for under ten grand. A Hundred thousand dollars (!) is way, way too much if you ask me.Doesn't mean I wouldn't like to try one out though... :-)Take care,Elrond[link:www.boycott-riaa.com]http://members.rogers.com/eelvish/Boycott-RIAA.gif]"A musician without the RIAA, is like a fish without a bicycle."[/font

G'day Bart,Mate I'm with Elrond on this one. That's a lot of moolahMakes me appreciate just what great value for money we have with the Fly! simulator. I'm sweating on the release of the networked multi-monitor program for Fly! that was mooted some time back on the forum.Cheers,Roger @YSSY

Should we start our own company then, build ripoffs like that and live happily ever after :-smooch Stevie :-bat