Hi Nathan. I watched the news in absolute AWE tonight. I immediately said to my other half: "yeah it's a great sim - but it needs to be on a motion platform". And immediately, the interviewer said you were thinking of moving so you could put it on a motion platform!!!!!! I literally clapped you on the TV!!!!! What you've done is everything I aspire to build. I'm actually a doc by trade, I'm a medical aviation examiner, I have a PPL and love flying, but my dream home project is a motion platform sim!!!!! If I won lotto, I would just pay for someone to build me a full motion platform Concorde simulator, but in reality, I would most likely build an SEA or twin sim +/- smaller jet sim such as a PC24. I currently have a pretty good sim running MSFS20 (multiple problems with upgrades and general BS) and P3D which is a lot more stable. Aiming for 4K HDR 60Hz graphics over 3 x screens, but so many problems, I spend more time trying to fix those problems rather than flying. I'm sure you can sympathise? I just wanted to get in touch and say first of all.... ON YA mate! That is the best frickin home sim I've ever seen - but my question is, how are you going to go about putting that on a motion platform? Apart from the house-hunting - in particular the size of room required to house a full-sized motion platform sim, what sort of additional computing/programming/wiring/fault finding and very approx costs would that involve? I'm sure you get a lot of tech questions, but if you do have a spare couple of mins, I would be so grateful if you could DM me the very basics so I can put in place at least some basic longterm plans to build my own. Also, do you hire out your sim? I'm in Perth, WA and perhaps when I can, I'd love to come over to Melb and check out your setup! Awesome stuff mate. Can't wait to see how you progress! Dave
Hi Nathan. I watched the news in absolute AWE tonight. I immediately said to my other half: "yeah it's a great sim - but it needs to be on a motion platform". And immediately, the interviewer said you were thinking of moving so you could put it on a motion platform!!!!!! I literally clapped you on the TV!!!!! What you've done is everything I aspire to build. I'm actually a doc by trade, I'm a medical aviation examiner, I have a PPL and love flying, but my dream home project is a motion platform sim!!!!! If I won lotto, I would just pay for someone to build me a full motion platform Concorde simulator, but in reality, I would most likely build an SEA or twin sim +/- smaller jet sim such as a PC24.
I currently have a pretty good sim running MSFS20 (multiple problems with upgrades and general BS) and P3D which is a lot more stable. Aiming for 4K HDR 60Hz graphics over 3 x screens, but so many problems, I spend more time trying to fix those problems rather than flying. I'm sure you can sympathise?
I just wanted to get in touch and say first of all.... ON YA mate! That is the best frickin home sim I've ever seen - but my question is, how are you going to go about putting that on a motion platform? Apart from the house-hunting - in particular the size of room required to house a full-sized motion platform sim, what sort of additional computing/programming/wiring/fault finding and very approx costs would that involve? I'm sure you get a lot of tech questions, but if you do have a spare couple of mins, I would be so grateful if you could DM me the very basics so I can put in place at least some basic longterm plans to build my own.
Also, do you hire out your sim? I'm in Perth, WA and perhaps when I can, I'd love to come over to Melb and check out your setup!
Awesome stuff mate. Can't wait to see how you progress!
Dave
Haha cheers mate
Congrats! Nice to see you here
Cheers matd
Congrats on making the news love the sim love following it on FB. Sean
Wow! Awesome vid and sim. How come you don’t post any new vids?
You made the big time!! 👍🏼👍🏼
Haha. Hopefully the Qantas ambassador john Travolta sees this and I get to meet him.
Can your simulator fly on the VATSIM network and have you ever considered participating in WorldFlight?
I always fly on vatsim. Yes I have flown during world flight. Have thought about joining a team, but never have yet.