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Flight sim people are on another level (startrek.website)
submitted 8 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 47 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Some of those things for PC flight sims are straight up real cockpit pieces. Dude is simply buying his plane one bit at a time until he can assemble the whole thing.

I've installed Internet for a dude who had a setup this gnarly. And to top it all off, he lived on a piece of land attached to an aircraft museum. He really loves planes.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 20 points 8 months ago

Some people are so dedicated to their hobbies and I love seeing it.

An extended family member of mine hosted a reunion at his house years ago, and he apparently lived in a neighborhood where many people have small airplane hangars attached to their houses instead of a normal garage. It was nuts. You're just walking through a normal-looking house in a normal-looking suburban neighborhood, go through what would otherwise be a garage door, and suddenly you're in a big hangar.