It really was remarkable to fly in, esp. if one was fortunate enough to sit in the front rows of seats which had the wrap-around windows, or to be admitted to the cockpit as was often done for children when I flew from Japan to the U.S. on one (somewhere in my stuff is a set of plastic Pan Am wings which the pilot gave me).

My current setup (sorry Airbus not Boeing) is more modest and probably I'd enjoy to upgrade it even more but after point it really does become a bottomless pit where the endgame will be buying a decommissioned plane lol

https://i.imgur.com/5uGHvz5.jpeg

But it is also easy to get started at home. Using some 42 inch televisions and old Android tablets, you can replicate a lot of the immersion very easily and have fun, see if you like it. Check out my open source projects and free apps for X-Plane and more details on building your own immersive flight simulator experience: https://www.waynepiekarski.net/projects/xplane.htm

Although be aware, these projects tend to turn more into an adventure building than actually flying much :)

I mean good ones were going for $1K a pop on eBay. I'm going to be rich, right?

After the market seemed to fall out, I did manage to sell perhaps a little over half of them at cost. What a pain to package and ship.

One guy though, I recall, had a flight-sim thing going and wanted to serve drinks with the real deal.

(And I have perhaps 8 or so of them around the house. A couple were converted to standing desks and have computers on them, one is actually in the kitchen and has alcohol in it, a few in the garage holding parts…)