Captain Scott has been an avid flight simulation enthusiast for more than 35 years. He started his “flight sim” journey with Microsoft Flight Simulator on an IBM Personal Computer. It all started with Flight Simulator II and Flight Assignment: ATP by subLOGIC and Bruce Artwick.
Like most virtual aviators, Captain Scott initially flew with a mouse and a keyboard before adding a yoke and rudder pedals. In October of 1994, he was at a point in his real world career that real world flying was possible so, after a brief Discovery Flight at 65LA, he began his flight training. In January of 1995, took his FAA check ride and received his Private Pilot SEL rating. Yes, in just 3 short months, he went from 0 to 45 hours and PPL rating, and along the way flight simulation played a significant role accelerating his training. Over the next few years and several hundred hours later, his real world career became more consuming and thus left little time for flying – so the that chapter came to an end.
Fast forward to 2018, and his retirement from the real world has cleared the way for flying once again, but this time a little closer to home. With a passion for aviation and DIY determination, Captain Scott set out to build his first Multi-purpose cockpit. What happened to real world flying? As many of you know , flying is very expensive and his love of flying a variety of aircraft made it impractical to pursue general aviation again, plus the cost just didn’t make sense. He found that he could fly anywhere in the world in virtually any type of aircraft for a lot less money in the simulator. The decision to stay closer to home and fly aircraft that he could never afford to fly in the real world was an easier choice to make than expected.
The desire to take flight simulation to the next level came in 2022 as he became focused on the PMDG 737 in MSFS 2020. As effective as his DIY Cockpit was, it lacked the realism of a full-size 737 cockpit, and so he began to explore information regarding a full-size Boeing 737 NG cockpit After interviewing a number of Cockpit manufacturers, including FDS, SISMO, OPEN COCKPITS, and CPFLIGHT, he made the choice to go with Flight Simulator Center (FSC) for the 737 NG Cockpit. This decision was based on a number of factors, not the least of which was the great Customer Service, Technology and Price. Based on his research in 2024, FSC offered the best overall value. Their system supports Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 via the ProSim Suite, along with many custom feature we will discussed further in the full-size Boeing 737 NG cockpit section of this website.
Captain Scott has been an avid flight simulation enthusiast for more than 35 years. He started his “flight sim” journey with Microsoft Flight Simulator on an IBM Personal Computer (8088 as I recall). It all started with Flight Simulator II and Flight Assignment: ATP by subLOGIC and Bruce Artwick
Like most virtual aviators, Captain Scott initially flew with a mouse and a keyboard before adding a yoke and rudder pedals. In October of 1994 he was at a point in his career it was time to try real world flying so he took a Discovery Flight at 65LA and in January of 1995 took his FAA Checkride and received is Private Pilot SEL rating. Yes, flight simulation played a significant role accelerating my training. Over the next few years and several hundred hours later, that same career did not allow for much so that chapter came to an end.
Fast forward to 2018 and retirement has cleared the way for flying once again but this time a little closer to home. With a passion for aviation and DIY determination Captain Scott set out to build his first Multi-purpose cockpit. What happened to real world flying you ask? As many of you know flying is expensive and my love of flying a variety of aircraft made it impractical to pursue general aviation again plus the cost just didn’t make sense. I can fly anywhere in the world in virtually any type of aircraft a whole cheaper in the simulator. The decision to stay closer to home and fly aircraft I could never afford to fly in the real world was an easier choice to make than I expected.
The desire to take flight simulation to the next level came in 2022 while I had become focused on the PMDG 737 in MSFS 2020. As effective as my DIY Cockpit was it lacked the realism of a full-size 737 cockpit, and so began my research into a full-size Boeing 737 NG cockpit After interviewing a number of Cockpit manufactures including FDS, SISMO, OPEN COCKPITS, and CPFLIGHT I made my choice to go with Flight Simulator Center (FSC) for the 737 NG Cockpit. My decision was based on a number of factors, not the least of which are Customer Service, Technology and Price. Based on my research in 2024 FSC offered the best overall value. The system supports Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 via the ProSim Suite along with many custom feature we will discuss more in the full-size Boeing 737 NG cockpit section of this website.