If you could build a second cockpit...

[Avro748]

Assuming that money, the wife, empty space, and resources are no object, what aircraft would you build a second sim out of?

My personal choice would be a Lockheed L749 Constellation.

[skino]

A very old Grumman goose:

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/5066/fjm2.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/543/fjm2.jpg/)

[dnoize]

My second sim is actually a Fokker F-27 Friendship.

Using a real MIP with simkits and flight illusion instruments on the captains side and the original real instruments on he first officers side.

But since i hardly have time for my 737 sim i am thinking of selling the Fokker F-27 afterall.

[samfranklin]

A Cessna 172 g1000, mainly because I feel that flying the B738 is amazing but a bit samey and sometimes a nice little VFR flight circuit would be nice. It's reasonably achievable as well - there's not loads to a Cessna 172 cockpit!

[super2277]

my second cockpit would probely be T7 (777-200) Or A10

[wiganpilotsteve]

My original idea was to build a 757 200 cockpit, I am a fan of Iron Maiden and using X plane 10 I have the 757 add on plane. I also downloaded the Iron Maiden tour plane livery for Bruce's 757. It would seem that the 737 bits n bobs are much easier to obtain, so now I have decided to build that instead, so my second cockpit would be the 757 200.

[No Longer Active]

I'd build a PA28 Cherokee (180) ...

C152 for training / PA28 for touring

[dodiano]

I did mine ! F-35! High powered you can fly VFR and also make VTOL's!!

[Tom_G_2010]

My second pit would be a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400.

I'm having a blast flying the Majestic Dash 8 Q400 and I'm convinced that if I had it before I started my current build that would have been the plane of choice.

[Westozy]

My first sim - B737NG 70% complete. My second sim is a generic single seat fighter/GA which ha Saitek controls and 3 x 24" monitors. My third sim is a real C172 shell, I've collected most parts to convert it into a sim but I won't be doing it until my Boeing is finished. My fourth sim is a single seat racecar sim with a Logitech G27 set up for PS3.....Now what would my 5th sim be??? There's a thought!!! Cheers Gwyn

[No Longer Active]

Gwyn.....calm down mate! lol....

I bet your house is a big kids paradise.....

Rent them out to corporate days and your making lots of money there pal!

Your 5th sim should be a flexwing microlight I recon! something that's all prop, all wing and sporty and nothing else! Just a thought!

Good Luck Pal...

Alex

[BuildABoeing]

Originally I would like to have made a MD-80 cockpit. But the lack of pre made parts and software made me choose the B737. But I really got a soft spot for the Mad Dog. These two pictures of the MD-80 just embrace what I love about those machines: Delta Departure (http://www.airliners.net/photo/Delta-Air-Lines/McDonnell-Douglas-MD-88/2237673/L/&sid=ee1f96b51b3065f478b3b20d9a1d8f78) and SAS departure (http://www.airliners.net/photo/Scandinavian-Airlines--/McDonnell-Douglas-MD-82/0992312/L/&sid=d56260c3079fc797fbc2954c6d0898eb).

Only thing I miss when flying jets is the possibility so do some VFR and visit smaller airport/airstrips with nice scenery. So perhaps a piston or a turboprop would be my number 2/3. But I am no that much in to GA, so the ATR would be a good choice.

[Avro748]

My second pit would be a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400.

I'm having a blast flying the Majestic Dash 8 Q400 and I'm convinced that if I had it before I started my current build that would have been the plane of choice.

Majestic software will be releasing a Cockpit friendly version of their Dash soon, at just $170.


But I am no that much in to GA, so the ATR would be a good choice.

Actually, I was originally going to do an ATR-72, but Flight1 didn't want to release any info regarding offsets or LVars, which was a problem because most of the switches were the Korry type with annunciators. A few weeks later, I tried out Rick Piper's HS748, and instantly fell in love, eventually clocking twice as many hours as the ATR. I decided to use that as my cockpit, and since the gauges were not write protected and in XML, I had no need to contact any developers.

[50sqnwop/ag]

Skino, someone's done one of them there Grummans, will look for the photo of it for you if you want?

[skino]

I would be very pleased about photos from a Grumman Sim

[50sqnwop/ag]

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[fsx-cockpit]

Looks good! I see much time you need...!

[Efe Cem Elci]

For years I have thought about this and all worldly factors aside it would have to be a B727 complete with engineer station in a real nose with all original gauges/parts. Old school, baby!

[Avro748]

I have a thing for flight engineer panels; that's why my second cockpit would be a Connie.