Cockpit challenge

[AndyT]

Ok, Dreaming time....

If I had all the room I could want, I'd build;

1. A GA Pit
2. A Cheyenne Pit
3. A Twotter Pit
4. A Boeing Pit
5. A Airbus Pit

And have all of them networked with full motion. I could have a FS party!

And THEN in a different area, I'd have the bridge of the Enterprise built running Orbiter CFS. (I don't think they've even written this yet....)

[BHawthorne]

hehe, I always though a Star Trek bridge would make a killer tv room. Something the size of the Defiant bridge. When friends came over to the house it would be kind of strange to explain the tv room though...lol.

[Bob Reed]

hehe, I always though a Star Trek bridge would make a killer tv room. Something the size of the Defiant bridge. When friends came over to the house it would be kind of strange to explain the tv room though...lol.

And it is not strange explaing why you have a chunk o plane in one of your rooms?

[BHawthorne]

And it is not strange explaing why you have a chunk o plane in one of your rooms?

hehe, point taken.

[BHawthorne]

OK Stupid question but... If its a space vehicle how in the world or better yet how in not in this world are you going to find scenery to coincide with leaving earths atmosphere, space etc and additionally who really wants to sit for ours and look at space! I think its a very cool project but I can see it losing its appeal extremely fast. JMO

Tim

I don't see much difference between other types of simulator flight and this type. Suborbital commercial flights will be starting in 2-3 years regularly. Both MSFS and X-Plane apparently handle sub-orbital just fine. Look for the Shuttle glider add-ons for FSX as an example. Sub-orbital will get more popular over time once it becomes a more regular occurance. I'm just a little bit ahead of my time by about 5 years. With it being sub-orbital, you're not sitting there looking at space for hours.

[BHawthorne]

Reference materials I have so far:

SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History (Hardcover)
SpaceShipOne: Making Dreams Come True (Paperback)
Black Sky: Winning the X-Prize (DVD)
SpaceShipOne Cockpit (Quicktime VR)

[BHawthorne]

Just got one of the reference books, "SpaceShipOne making Dreams Come True". It's worthless for reference material. All the illustrations and photos are already on the web from Scaled. There is no original material in this book. I hope I have better luck with the other references.