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What I want my next computer to look like:
And if I were using such a system to play on-line flight sim games over some high-speed net access (pipe dream part 2), I'd want a microphone/earphone headset connected to a voice-recog chat device so I could harangue as I buzz.
The pictured machine is a Frasca Mentor system, designed for flight schools. They can also build the dashboard to handle more conventional dial instruments, but those glass-cockpit layouts look nice too. Of course, a dream system would be modular, so you could switch between yoke and joystick/sidestick attitude controls, or move the throttle quadrant from right to left (as on fighter jets)...or maybe even add more exotic controls (like the recticle devices used to point the guns on attack helos).
I've been waiting all my computerized life--heck, longer than that!--for a system like this one.
FP
And if I were using such a system to play on-line flight sim games over some high-speed net access (pipe dream part 2), I'd want a microphone/earphone headset connected to a voice-recog chat device so I could harangue as I buzz.
The pictured machine is a Frasca Mentor system, designed for flight schools. They can also build the dashboard to handle more conventional dial instruments, but those glass-cockpit layouts look nice too. Of course, a dream system would be modular, so you could switch between yoke and joystick/sidestick attitude controls, or move the throttle quadrant from right to left (as on fighter jets)...or maybe even add more exotic controls (like the recticle devices used to point the guns on attack helos).
I've been waiting all my computerized life--heck, longer than that!--for a system like this one.
FP
