Tour the Boeing 737 Flight Simulator Built in a Garage
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Air traffic controller James Price has spent the past decade building a full-sized Boeing 737 flight simulator in his garage. Will and Norm board the cockpit of this amazing project to learn how it works. - Věda a technologie
I would guess he's spent several hundred thousand dollars and thousands upon thousands of hours.
Ikr. Ik its a bit late but nice video!
and a few ex wifes aswell
@@Pedro_Santo that's a good thing.
I believe the hardest part is to get real aircraft controls and panels to work with computer hardware and commercial flight simulators. That's indeed, a very impressive work in electronics and software
Vexoph I’m late to
This man should get the first copy of Flight simulator 2020
Nah nah nah!☝️😓
He most likely isn’t going to use MSFS2020
@@aviay why? They say itll be compatible
Yes
Get this guy on the beta. Now.
If i had this you wouldnt see me outside.
Lol ya, You would see me flying around New York in a virtual world! :D
+1
+1 :-)
don't get an oculus or morpheus!
need a co-pilot? lol
Imagine coming home to your family and saying: "Oh, by the way, I bought the nose of a 737 today."
+Sam S. To be honest i doubt he has a wife. But hey, i'd rather have a 737 simulator than a wife!
+FMS That's because you could never get one.
and some peoples wifes get mad when they come home and announce they bought a new gun or tv.
They wouldn’t have a single idea of what a 737 is XD
I wish I was rich...
This guy must look at the 'Best Gaming Setups on CZcams' videos and think "Psh, Amateurs...".
Here in my garage, just got this new Boeing 737, fun to fly up the Hollywood Hills
You earned a cookie for that
+3Logic Here I was, going to post this, and lo and behold it's already here.
Lamboeinghini
+3Logic you know what I love more than a 737 In the holiwood hills? KNOWLEDGE!!!!!!!!!!! i don't call it money I call it surcharge. You should have enough Surcharge Units to live out your pilot dreams
+BananaDorian I totally concur with you. KNOWLEDGE!!!! My dad would say 'KNOWLEDGE IS POWER' Forget money. Although money is a tool of knowledge manifestation.
god bless your electric bill
He looks like he can afford it.... I'm sure he's a baller💰💰💰💰
Probably 😂😂👍
It’s 6 pcs running though..
Not just six PCs. There’s also the projectors for the outside, the LCDs for the panels etc.
ATC make lots of money.
I don't need it
I don't need it
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I NEEEEED ITTTT
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I absolutely love this guy.....how cool would it be to have neighbor like the simguy....." honey, I'am going over to Jims to have few beers and fly around in the 737 for a while"......hahhaha
Gary Vale hell yes
+Gary Vale you really should not drink and fly it's irresponsible............................you could fly into some turbulence and spill your drink!!! Better be careful bud.
hahahahahahahaha........you are right Joe.........
+Joe Shivago he needs a hydraulic system from some lowriders
yes, good idea......that would add some turbulence
"I'm gonna build an ATC Tower simulator in my garage!" Said no pilot ever!
I've thought about it ngl.
Miles Farmer Welp! You know what? 7 years since I posted that comment, yeah I guess I would consider it now haha.
Why are we here in 2020
@@aidankennedy6587 quarantine
Yeah lol
This is why PC gaming is better than console gaming
Yes
Wait. This is a GAME?
JOHN MIKE & ME IN 720P
It has goals and challenges. You can win or lose. I call that a game. Certainly more than Stanley Parable
There are people who use FSX and X-Plane as actual simulators, and then there are those people who treat it like a game.
If you want to see it treated like a game, go to any public FSX server.
*****
How sure are you of that?
this man....is a legend. sounds soo fun when he mentions how they all get together on the weekends to build these projects. such an awesome community
Mom, I am getting an airplane, clean the basement :D
Zaur Bilalov 😂😂😂😂😂
And give me a lifetime supply of food and clothes cause I'm not coming outside in the next 100 years
Zaur Bilalov
Momlamgetting anairplane
Clean
this comment gets a few replies even 4 years later 😂
LMAO
What a dedication to a hobby. Fabulous to know that some people are prepared to work in like this.
You could tell all the girls you own your own jet. And then blindfold them tell they actually are in the cockpit. Hey babe, where would you like to fly to tonight?
@thatguychris fs2020
Just make sure you don't get Airforceproud95 as your ATC 😅
@@arx1kage oh shit oh fuck
You want me to put a blindfold on and go to your basement. Sounds perfectly normal
Being a flight instructor and simulator enthusiast, I found this to be amazing that this project was completed to such a realistic 737 simulator. I authored a book "Teaching Confidence in the Clouds" that describes my work with the desktop version of flight simulators.
I've been working for 30+ years on the $14M full motion flight simulators and I must say that what you have done is very impressive! Good Job!
This is unbelievable! Incredible that James has stuck to this project for this long, and finished it to this standard. His perseverance is admirable, to say the least! He seems like a cool guy too! I had to go grab a beer to finish watching, I kinda felt left out!
This is awesome! Imagine hanging out with some buddies, having some cold ones and just flying around the world in a garage sim.
im happy seeing that guy happy doing what he loves. he also appreciated all the positive feedback. what a nice man.
This hardware and Microsoft Flight Simulator will be SOOO EPIC !!! 😱😱
David S. That’s what I was thinking. Wonder if he still had it
Mr. ATC, you are BRILLIANT ! You'd never get me out of your garage !
I would like to know how’s Jim cockpit looks now with MSFS 2020.
I couldn't agree more, "it's absolutely amazing!" Congratulations and best wishes towards the final touches.
Best homemade flight sim I have ever seen. No wonder you work ATC you and your friends need the patience of a saint to build that equipment.
Well done....
Cool ! !!! Good seeing some one takes pride in what he does
I love and appreciate how this man gives credit to all of the people involved, most people take credit for all of it... I thought it was Peter Dawson that did FSUIPC? Either way, great video!!! LOVE this stuff, its my life, I have been doing flight simulator for 20 years.
Fantastic! From an old pilot from Australia.
That's one of the best sim cockpits I have ever seen, congratulations and keep the good work, it's just amazing!
Jim.....Tim, here. Formerly with Continental Airlines (yes, I recognize the paint scheme....this is one of our old B737-200s...actually acquired after the "merger" with "People Express Airlines", IIRC). They were retired early, shortly after I started. I am Typed on the B737, the B757/767 and the DC9. (That includes the MD80 series, of course). Right-seat on the B727, the A-300-B4 and the DC10. About 24 years at CAL.
You're an ATC guy? Cool! I am actually jealous of your hobby there (I spent my money on R/C airplanes and stuff)...among other things. BUT, a great set-up you have, there!!!
Cheers,
Tim
(EDIT)...I'm out in LA....one day, I'd love to come visit this....quite amazing, what you've done!!!!
This is the most fantastic machine, ever I saw! congratulations to the builders and video editor too. Really amazing! more than a like for this.
I love this! Incredible what you can do when you have a dream, join a community and work together to create something you can be proud of. In my opinion, this is what life is about. Great Work..
I give my soul for that simulator! :O
Joachim Petersson how are u gonna use it if you sell your soul
Just become a airline pilot, it doesn't cost way too much honestly. It cost me about 176k including college. And 6 years of my life.
You won't be able to use the Flight Simulator if you lose your soul
@@imawatermelon1439 You cant just stop flying when you want to get off
I want to know why it took CZcams 7 years to recommend this to me
Now eight years
@@campbellaviation7289 its all politics, Wants people to buy microsoft sim 2020 and other stuff. All about the money
@@bosnahYUG Lol true, they are pretty smart.
This is so seriously beyond cool for words. Thank you for sharing!
How could anyone not "like" this??? Well done - very impressive.
11 years ago is insane
Magnificent job! I can only imagine the hours of soldering that went into that. Makes my automotive simulator look like a joke
oo yea makes it look like a yoke aalryyt
Link to automotive simulator?
True passion... So much better than watching TV for 5 hours every day! :)
Wow!!! Your setup is incredible, would love to see what it looks like today and the improvements you’ve made.
This guy seems like a real life Ron Swanson. Passionately nerdy about manly stuff.
Yes lol
Lol, My last name is Swanson.....
who else fast forwarded to the inside of the plane? these guys are pure geniuses
I am awestruck!!! This is genius! Such enthusiasm and dedication!!!
That’s the most amazing thing I’ve seen in a while. Just awesomeness.
daamn unexpected shoutout to X-Plane represent!
When your model airplane hobby just isn't enough! 🤔💵
Very cool.....I have been into this for years myself and have been a Commercial Pilot for 30 years.....your flight simulator is the best I've ever seen , or heard about... great stuff , thanks for showing us......
that sooo amazing.! i got alot respect for the build!
This is amazing. I hope you have some sprinklers or something ready in case of a house fire. To lose all that work would be crushing.
My respect !! a dreamer from Greece.
this is really beautiful and bad ass toy good work man great craftsmanship and precise to the core
What a beautiful project!
CZcams recommended this and i like it 👍🏻 nice from Malaysia 🇲🇾
I love X-Plane 10, and by the way do you use Vatsim
Fantastic flight deck build! Thanks for sharing this. :)
That is beautiful -good work
i want to be his friend and try the simulator, buy him a beer each time :)
No flying and drinking!
@@christophercook723 so that's what happened on 9/11... The more you know
Next video: James Price spends the next two decades building a full-sized Boeing 737 in his garage.
Enthusiasm and innovation at it's best... well done👍👍👍
Amazing! Really awesome stuff!
Some people buy some flight sim software and are slowly driven crazy by it.
What's your point?
Yeah I love it
I'm sorry? Is the point not perfectly clear?
I love that he has the most technically perfect system extreme flight sim ever, yet he records in flight footage on VHS. classic.
Amazing, mind totally blown.
Fantastic craftsmanship, thanks for sharing
Great achievement and rightfully proud, nice one Mr Price!
Dude has an actual 737 cockpit completely configured to run on X-plane, but records customer's experience via VHS??
SF2ATL it's a decade old
@@AndroydFM Imagine with todays tech and X-plane 11 or prepar3d
@@gemizu4874 and now imagine it with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 :O
@@acolytealfbrand718 Bro if he tried to run this on MS Flight Sim 2020, that'd be a fire hazard
This is 8 years old
Wee! The cameraman knows how to work the ZOOM function! Woah, get an airsick bag!
hats off sir, this is really great work of urs. I am a software engineer and allways wanted a simulator to be built on my own i liked 757 model , but not everyone is born lucky as u are .
May god bless you.
Mad props to this guy. I wish I could build something like this.
this guy's a f ING genius
interviewer is way too anxious
Romeo's Animals before or after he changed ethnicity?
To be fair, I would to.
Romeo's Animals
Iinterviewer iswaytoo anxious
Norm is always like that
Simply AMAZING !!! Great job dude ;-)
Way over my head. Some people just have it takes. Great work.
I wish he asked what the total cost was of setting this up... I'm going to guess it was in the 20-30 thousand dollar range. Maybe 40.
Also, I wonder why he has multiple computers to handle the simulation (or how that even works with X-plane) . I wonder if my quad core i7 3770k would handle all that he does here..
I have X-plane 10 that I just purchased yesterday -- amazing sim but I see that it's complicated enough that it'll probably take me a year or more to learn everything about it... I also have FSX and didn't realize that the vatsim type ATC simulation was available on X-Plane as well! Awesome!
I want to build a setup like this for a small plane like a Cessna 172. Plan is to eventually hire an instructor & get my actual sport then private pilot certificate once I've honed my skills in the simulators.
Adam Olympia As i know it could reach around $100.000 or even $500.000...
$6000 for various pc, then everything else that costs a lot of money. But I think that with $60.000 you can make it with nice results.
By the way, with 60k you can afford a PPL licence and rent an aircraft like Cessna or Cirrus and fly for real around NY or where you wish to go.
Stefano lmao not 60k , wayyy less
@@ShinLeeChan way less than that man, you can get a flying Cessna 172 for 20k lol
I did the flight sim in Montreal Canada. 737- 400- or I think 800. Everything identical expect no nose of the plane. I asked him how much that cost. He told me over a million. He is an actual instructor and pilots can get sim hours. It was absolutely incredible when I did it. One hour 99.00 Canadian. Have a picture and video of the whole experience. Unfortunately, the video was lost in my email somehow.
Carl Gois that’s for a full motion class d or class c simulator
Who is watching it 2017?
I'm from the future...
😯😯😯
Haaaaaa
me.
+msproductions Its June 12th here is 2017
+msproductions me
+msproductions will my wife ever give me sex or should I get rid of her?
"And your landings get better". Awesome!
Wow, what a project! Good video too guys!!
The "control wheel" in a plane is called yoke..... Thought you know that when you own a cockpit
What would be great is if you somehow come across a way to lay a transparent flexible tv screen over each of the cockpit and brow windows so you can see from the inside out only and from the outside you can have anyone watch you with out seeing the stuff you're watching and to make the inside scenery to be consistent with the scenery change as you're flying? I don't know if the technology has been made or not, but that's the way I would do it.
Anyone know what Im talking about and would know if such technology is out there exist? This would be a great man cave medium range project to do. Im amped up to do something like this! I've always had my head up in the clouds with aviation.
I can see OLED technology being able to do this very soon.
Wow! this is absolutely wonderful!!! I flew Flight Simulators many times, but not in a cockpit like that and definitely not in a real airplane. I admire a lot those intrepid builders!!! Thank you for the video.
This is sick one. Amazing job.
If i was going to build a simulator of that caliber i would build one out of a fighter/attack type military aircraft. Would seem much more fun to dogfight or attack enemy positions than just leisurely flying a 737 around looking at clouds,but thats just me. To each his own.
I see where you're coming from but I would prefer a 737 sim, yeah a fighter game would be really fun but it would get repetitive soon. But a 737 is very consistent in the entertainment.
That would be cool, but if you wanted to do flips and stuff, lots of wiring
The problem with that is the secrecy regarding the actual systems. For a 737 essentially you can learn almost anything because nothing's really classified about how the systems work and what they do. If y ou only care about making them behave realistically, it certainly can be done, the propietary stuff really comes to the actual manufacturing process.
For military jets, the new stuff is classified. You may get a close simulation but you can't really get to know even the realistic behaviour and you have no way of making it appear realistic because you can't just find scrapped F16 throttle quadrants.
Well getting the screen around the fighter would be quite difficult
I think they enjoy the process of setting up the sim, rather than piloting. It is really amazing hobby.
i want this
not that i dont want to steal his im mean that i want to buy one :D
besides im not gonna steal it
Andrew Jay
Do you realize you just said you want to steal it ?
im not going to
why does no one beleive me :(
Homeworker King ;-) The man is living his dream. Phantastic.
So envious to have that at my home. Very well done
11:04 so.... he can put an incredible flight sim together, but still uses VHS tapes to record video?
If someone fiddled with his cockpit would that make this a flight stimulator?
I would love to spend time with passionate people like this
Thats dedication for ya! very impressive!!
For everyone Wondering about the Price:
It costs about 60,000 to 100,000 WITHOUT the actual plane nose. With it it would probably cost 110000 to 150000 $
Let's just say that this guy has a damn good job then
Xion with 75.000€ he could have become a pilot
hahahaa pretty much
xThePisco I doubt it costs that much. If that were the case he would’ve been better off buying a full motion simulator for an obsolete airframe from an airline auction. They come on the market when airlines are upgrading their fleet to a new generation and the sim is too old to be worth retrofitting. Can buy what used to be a multi million dollar sim for well under 100k. But you need the space for it since they require very high ceilings, and also demand lots of power.
You can build one far under that. Not sure where you grabbed that number, but for that price, i can get a new mercedes benz AMG.
if you go for high copy components instead of original and build the frame yourself. and If you can make your own boards, and are handy with electronics, thats another huge plus for cutting costs.
and by the way, now that we have raspberry, arduino and android etc, its even cheaper to make.
We didn't had sophisticated and powerful little project computer boards 15/20 years ago
The displays with driver boards from captain to first officer €200, most cases even less. Nice FMC panels : >€70. FMC screens with buttons soldered in matrix or just pushbuttons with graphite to
capacitive touch interface, less then €50
Its more time than anything else.
But heck, $150k?!?! Thats a price you pay for an Benz AMG V8 black series.
Anybody notice a yellow light on the landing gear panel?
Not until you mentioned it. Doesn't the 737-200 not have the digital lcd screens though? I thought it had the analog instruments.
It means that NO#2 gear isn’t locked in place
yeahlol. and the master caution
It means that caution the left landing gear is not down and in place.
Awesomeness on a whole new level !
after spending just about every spare moment playing MS Flight Sim 2020, this mans setup is GOALS!
This is amazing but how did he get to make all the computers to work in a single simulator, i mean how are they working together im eager to know about that.
Simple, a program called WIDE FS
his whole cockpit is a custom joystick run by lots of little small computers that network together.his main computer connects to his main computer which runs the main 3 visual displays. everything else is input or joysticks.
He kinda went over it, how the plugins for the game allow it to interface with the program which creates the displays. For the actual connection itself, I'b be highly surprised if it is anything fancier than ethernet cables and a switch.
Home servers work great for such things. Trying to hook everything up through USB would be a nightmare, but taking the time to learn networking and then using it to split tasks up is much easier.
would you get on a plane with someone who had only ever flown in sims before? they'd have 5-10 years in sim experience and you would get paid. what do you think?
most people who have flight sims are interested in flying and generally speaking would be smart/competent enough to fly a plane.
really?? wow! it's easy to be a pilot then.. I assume you have not tried to fly one even in a simulator
Buknoy Burokokok the problem would be that if an emergency occurred or if the landing conditions were very poor then a flight simmer would probably struggle but for a normal flight a flight simmer would probably do ok
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Absolutely AWESOME!!!
Wow. You are REALLY SMART! I enjoyed the video!😊
2018?? Anyone??
2019
Anything Mike
June 2019
WOW, you should rent it by the hour or so...
I am a pilot do you want to be a pilot
@@malykchannel8627 your not a pilot
That is incredible. Great work.
An ATC with this genius creative work is a quite awesome.