$20K Gets You A Full-Fledged FlightSim WITH A Motion Base!
Let's face it, there isn't a pilot out there who hasn't spent
time in front of a PC flying one flight sim or another and the
grand-daddy of all flight sim products is, of course, Microsoft's
amazing Flight Simulator X.
It's GREAT software, offering you amazing vistas (no pun
intended), lots of airplanes to fly, and some exciting realism...
especially when coupled with a good PC, some great sound... and,
what's this, a motion base?
D-BOX Technologies Inc., showed ANN a new "D-BOX Motion Gaming
Chair" that is now available for sale in the United States and
Canada as an accessory to the heavy-duty gaming PCs from Voodoo, a
high-performance computer gaming brand of HP. The system is
available in versions that cater both to flight-sim enthusiasts or
automotive racing-sim drivers.
Using the 120 pound GP-200FS Motion Gaming Chair, developed by
D-Box, the well-healed MSFSX enthusiast now finds themselves
equipped with 3 electrical actuators, which look like small
robot-like legs, that deliver three degrees of freedom in pitch,
roll and yaw. The chair also includes a USB motion interface, a
force feedback control yoke and throttle, a complete speaker
system, the obligatory seat belt (which is NEEDED at times), all
mounted on a sturdy steel tube frame.
A specialized (and patented) technology, developed by
D-Box, utilizes motion codes specifically programmed for each
flightsim, resulting in motion that is "perfectly synchronized with
on-screen action." The GP-200 Motion Game Chair is said to be
compatible with most "high-profile" flight simulation games, but we
can tell you personally that it ROCKS ON Microsoft Flight Simulator
X.
Aero-TV Rocks and Rolls (Literally) With
D-box/Voodoo/HP's Amazing MSFSX FlightSim!
About Aero-TV: It's DEFINITELY Show
Time!!!!
OK, folks, here we go... we are NOW initiating the first
feature programming series for Aero-TV... we're going to take it
slow, but we're also going to try and be steady about this. DO
UNDERSTAND that this is the most complex media program we've ever
undertaken and what you're seeing is just the tip of the iceberg...
but from here on out, we will be doing our best to educate,
inform, and entertain YOU about all aspects of the exciting worlds
of aviation and aerospace.
If you've been an observer of the media and associated media
industries over the last few years, it's not hard to mistake the
fact that a massive revolution is taking place. Old sources for
news and information are falling by the wayside, having to change
their modus operandi or risk obsolescence (or extinction).
Electronic media and print media are both under the assault of
progress, and the online world has been a cornerstone for
revolutionary change.
We've been ready to go for a while, but to be honest, there's so
much more to this program than we've alluded to, and so we've been
building and planning a massive new organization within ANN. That
said, we're hiring talented new people as
fast as we can find them (a far more difficult
task than we had imagined -- REALLY good people are hard to find),
and we're brainstorming at speeds that would make a deorbiting
Space Shuttle feel like a slug. Suffice it to say that we wanted to
do this right, rather than right-now, and that the development of
this program has been the most carefully pursued undertaking we've
ever undertaken.
E-I-C Note: The
complete feature shown above is embedded in this
story, with most of the slick and useful functionality
otherwise available on the main Aero-TV
site (which will be upgraded aggressively
over the next few weeks). The ability to embed a video on
another web page is but one of the hundreds of amazing little
features that we've worked hard on, for many months now, to
implement in different phases of the initial release of
Aero-TV. It is, BY NO MEANS, the only way to enjoy unaltered
Aero-TV programming on other parts of the web... as we have
extensive plans for future functionality, but this feature
allows those with an interest in a specific Aero-TV News or Feature
program to embed it on a different web site, though we must
note that we reserve the right to forbid such use for those sites
or purposes that we do not feel fit in with the proper mission of
the Aero-News Network, Inc.
Webmasters or Administrators of well-trafficked aviation or
aerospace related sites, are welcome to contact the Publisher to
start conversations on how they may be able to leverage some of the
immense power of Aero-TV programming for their sites and
constituency by clicking the I Want Aero-TV For
MY Website! link.
Coming Soon!
Aero-TV Shows You How To Build A Glasair Sportsman
2+2 in RECORD TIME, Gets Up Close And Personal With the Newest
Continental Powerplant To Grace A Cessna, Gets A Sobering Briefing
From P.A.S.S., Flies The Piper Matrix, Hears What's Hot At Blue
Moutain Avionics, Checks Out More "HIGH" Tech at I/ITSEC
2007, Hears From AOPA On Critical Aviation Issues, Spills Some
Juicy (and HIGHLY Detailed) Cirrus G3 Info, Shoots A Clarity Aloft
Headset Profile, Scores A BUNCH of LSA Reports, and SO
MUCH MORE!!!!! Do NOT Miss Them!
ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (04.13.24)
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