Anyone have this yet?

[BMathis]

Wondered if any of you arm chair pilots have constructed one of these for AH yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBt77mGnyfI&feature=player_embedded

It would be so fun right?!!!

[lyric1]

I have seen this before. How ever I have a hard time believing a GP vehicle would be pulling that much of a degree change on a flat race track just from breaking & accelerating.

In AHII I would imagine a lot of motion sickness is in the cards with that unit.

[jd]

Set it up to go inverted like Tommy Lee's drumset, barrel rolls etc, OMG

[PFactorDave]

I have seen this before. How ever I have a hard time believing a GP vehicle would be pulling that much of a degree change on a flat race track just from breaking & accelerating.

The big movements are how they simulate the "push you back into your seat" effect when accelerating.  For it to work best, I think it needs to be enclosed so the user doesn't have the visual reference of being able to see the rest of the room.

[Scca]

I have seen this before. How ever I have a hard time believing a GP vehicle would be pulling that much of a degree change on a flat race track just from breaking & accelerating.

I think the change is more to simulate G forces..  F1 cars produce 5+ G's in a turn, 4 braking, and 1,5 on acceleration.  Of course this chair would only produce a max < 1.....  

[Scca]

For it to work best, I think it needs to be enclosed so the user doesn't have the visual reference of being able to see the rest of the room.

Now THAT would increase the barf factor....

[Lepape2]

With virtual reality googles... this would be 

[VonMessa]

Wondered if any of you arm chair pilots have constructed one of these for AH yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBt77mGnyfI&feature=player_embedded

It would be so fun right?!!!

I'm too busy building a real airplane 

[morfiend]

I'm too busy building a real airplane 

   I'd have thought you'd be worried that the simpit would spill your beer,we cant have that now can we!


   




   

[VonMessa]

   I'd have thought you'd be worried that the simpit would spill your beer,we cant have that now can we!


    




    

You can't spill an I.V. drip.   

[morfiend]

You can't spill an I.V. drip.   

   

[Seanaldinho]

I've flown in a simlike this before where it was enclosed and they called it a "3 axis simulator".
During the flight you had full control of a corsair and had enemy zeros to shoot at. 

Was pretty beast for the 5 minutes you get in it. 

[MachFly]

Most people have it programmed unrealistic, and it's going to be very difficult programming it to give you the real feel. Most of the time you see that the chair banks as aircraft banks, that is not right the chair should remain in the same spot, but as the aircraft accelerates the chair should pitch up to give you that feel. Now you need to make sure the chair will pitch up the right amount of degrees to give you the right feel for acceleration and so on.

I used a realistic one before (FAA designation: class D sim), but it was a few million dollars so they did not let me take it home  .

[kilz]

now lets look at the price tag on something like this

[VAMPIRE 2?]

yeah I saw this on crazy toejam website and thought to myself, "I wonder when that contraption is going to LAUNCH that guy out the window"! lol  looks like fun