Tag: FLIGHT SIMULATOR

Is there no end to what nerds will build? In what may be one of the craziest home additions you'll ever see, an unidentified man mounted a 747 cockpit to the side of his house, because he obviously intends on restoring the hull and building a flight simulator inside it. It may sound intimidating to rookie do-it-yourselfers out there, but this guy has already built a simulator in his basement ...

Ha, and you thought your HotSeat Chassis was the next best thing to paying way too much to carry an appropriate amount of luggage on your next jaunt to paradise. Australia's own Matthew Sheil has been tinkering on his own personal flight simulator for over a decade now, but the latest iteration is just too good to ignore. Aside from setting a Guinness world record for his efforts, the man has ...

Rumor has it that one of the victims of Microsoft's first major layoffs will be the company's long running 'Microsoft Flight Simulator' series. The venerable flight sim has been in constant development since 1982, making it Microsoft's oldest property. But word from gaming site Gamasutra is that many of the jobs being cut are at the ACES game studio, home of the flight simulation series. We're ...