FSBreak 8: Most Expensive Home Built Flight Simulator, Problems for Computer Pilot Magazine, and Sully?s Flight!

Summary: Hosted by Eric McClintock, #38; Joe. Listen Here: Subscribe to automatically get the latest podcast: iTunes, Zune, RSS XML, E-Mail, All Other. The World's Most Expensive Home Built Flight Simulator Matthew Sheil, owner of a trucking parts company, has the most expensive home built flight simulator, an almost exact replica of a 60 Million dollar 747-400 simulator, cost him just $300,000 to build. The simulator is housed in his Sydney Australia warehouse. The cockpit features: Over 45 different software programs running on 14 different computers. He rents out the simulator to the Royal Flying Doctor Service, and then donates the money earned from the rentals. His Simulator offers full motion. Matthew also is a real life pilot and owns a beechcraft baron B58, and says he prefers flying the real plane but enjoys the limitless posibilities of the simulator: He says: In the [real] plane I fly, you take off and you point it in the direction of Melbourne and you press a button and away it goes until you come into land, whereas a simulator you can do whatever you want - if you want to fly upside down, fly upside down, If we hit a mountain or the ground the simulator just freezes in its current state and everything goes red - and then we just hit reset. You can find the news article here [Link], or find moe information on Matt's website. [Link] More Pictures: [nggallery id=9] Show us your home cockpits! Use the form on our contact page, email feedback@fsbreak.net, or call 513-201-5426. Problems For Computer Pilot Magazine? (Correction, in the podcast I stated that they have gone for 3 years on a monthly release date, the actual time is 7 years.) Robert, the owner of the popular Computer Pilot Magazine, sent out a note to subscribers explaining that they are selling less, and hence the cost have gone up, forcing him to reduce the frequency back to once every TWO months instead of once per month. Computer Pilot started as a bi-monthly and then went monthly in 2003. While we enjoyed 7 years of month-after-month issues, a recent slowdown in readership and advertiser support due to the toughened economy has forced us back into the bi-monthly schedule. They also state: Donrsquo;t worry, wersquo;re not planning on going away any time soon. In fact wersquo;re taking this opportunity to regroup and recreate a better magazine with a complete new look and improved content based on reader feedback. So while it will be 2 months between issues, they will be ldquo;betterrdquo; issues from this point forward. If you are currently a subscriber, donrsquo;t worry, you havenrsquo;t lost anything. You will still receive the number of issues that you are signed up for. If you have 8 issues remaining in your subscription, you will still receive 8 issues. Nothing else will change. Computer Pilot will be a better magazine with a new and improved look and improved content, published and delivered every other month. View the article on SimFlight here [Link], or see the release directly from Computer Pilot Magazine here. [Link] X-Plane releases "Sully's Flight" for as an iPhone Application Based on X-Plane, 'Sully's Flight' starts you on runway 4 at LaGuardia in an Airbus A-320, at similar time, weather, and weight conditions to that fateful flight. YOU will fly the plane yourself, following hoops plotted in the sky showing Captain Sullenberger's approximate ACTUAL flight-path... This will let YOU fly the same profile Sully did, from take-off right through to landing... all with realistic physics and accurate land and river placement. As well as the actual location, airplane, time, weather, and flight-path, the ACTUAL radio transmissions are played at the right time, giving a full immersion into the actual 5-minute flight... and with flight physics that are accurate enough to make it very similar to the real plane. Touch down below 120 knots, at less t...