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An Arizona Home with a $100k Flight Simulator Is Asking $4.495M

• sam345 3y ago
  no paywall: https://archive.ph/WZBKr https://archive.ph/WZBKr
• FrustratedPers 3y ago
  Who can afford this, especially in Arizona? Even FAANG people are (mostly) not making enough money to justify to themselves purchasing a home like this.
  • syndicatedjelly 3y ago
    There are, in fact, rich people in Arizona. The universe doesn't revolve around FAANG salaries divided by the cost of living in the Bay Area.
  • defrost 3y ago
    From the article the house was built and fitted out with ice-cube money from the founding and business expansion of: https://www.easyice.com/ https://www.easyice.com/
• MichaelMug 3y ago
  The flight sim is the Redbird FMX[1]. It's fun. It's FAA approved. Starts at $71,900. To be honest I'm not sure why these things are so expensive. The software is usually Prepar3d/X-Plane which is cheap (less that $500). I don't know what they are using for the instrument panel but it looked to me like a screen covered by a cutout to make it look like the "steam gauges". There is Air Manager which can do this ($40). RealSimGear [2] which makes the panels which look like the G1000 PFD/MFD combo which is like $2k. I think it can use either the G1000 implementation from X-Plane, a custom plugin, in some cases the legit Garmin trainer software. A gaming computer is $2k, 3-4 50" monitors can be $1k-$3k (LCD to OLED). There are many vendors for yokes, throttle controls, flap lever, at varying prices depending on realism. So what justifies the $80k+ price tag? FAA approval, 3 dof? [1] https://simulators.redbirdflight.com/products/fmx https://simulators.redbirdflight.com/products/fmx [2] https://realsimgear.com/collections/gps-units/products/realsimgear-g1000-suite-for-x-plane-p3d-and-fsx https://realsimgear.com/collections/gps-units/products/reals...