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No, I am not talking about playing the Microsoft Flight Simulator on your computer, but a real simulator. A man named John Davis has build a Boeing 747 flight simulator in a room in his house.

The 47-year-old divorced spent eight years and £15,000 (US $30,733) to build the incredible jumbo jet cockpit. The flight deck touts a simulator which recreates every switch and sound on a Boeing 747. He has used an old car sea as the leather flight chair to lift the undercarriage, switch to automatic pilot and settle back to enjoy the traverse. The life-sized replica of the cockpit is mainly constructed from wood except the autopilot system, throttles and weather radar, which he sourced from the internet.

Now he sits in front of a giant screen and has a bird’s eye view of continents as he pilots his mighty “aircraft” across Europe or to New York.

John, who holds a pilot’s licence to fly gliders, has now quit his job as a graphic designer to run a flight simulation business from his two-bedroomed terraced house in Tile Hill, Coventry. He charges £65 for an hour and £95 for two. A £220, four-hour session includes two of training and a simulated flight from Birmingham to Amsterdam.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/22489/The-jumbo-jet-in-my-bedroom
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/bedroom-747/man-builds-30000-jumbo-jet-simulator-in-his-bedroom-312735.php
http://www.bornrich.org/entry/plane-fanatic-builds-30k-boeing-747-flight-simulator-in-his-bedroom/
http://www.luxurylaunches.com/

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