Motion sickness in your living room with Dreamflyer

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16-01-2008, 11:31 AM
HEXUS

Motion sickness in your living room with Dreamflyer

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Now there’s an answer to your flight sim-motion desires that won’t break the bank, the lightweight, non-powered Dreamflyer.

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16-01-2008, 04:03 PM
greenalien

Re: Motion sickness in your living room with Dreamflyer

* * * Biggles flies undone! * * *

Seriously, though, it's a shedload of money for what is, effectively, just a few bits of bent tubing and a chair - and it's not even powered. More realistic price would be $300, any more and it's a rip-off, even allowing for the generous load limit - presumably designed for the 'average' american gamer...
16-01-2008, 06:28 PM
Lee H

Re: Motion sickness in your living room with Dreamflyer

I reckon Zak33 would love this for his IL-2 session :)
10-02-2008, 04:12 PM
Flyboy45

Re: Motion sickness in your living room with Dreamflyer

You can't even buy the controls for $300. It's all allum tubing and with the price of metal these days. Of course there is the cost of manufacturing too. So if you think that you can make it for $300. I'll buy one.
11-02-2008, 09:30 AM
greenalien

Re: Motion sickness in your living room with Dreamflyer

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It's all allum tubing and with the price of metal these days. Of course there is the cost of manufacturing too. So if you think that you can make it for $300. I'll buy one.

I don't think that the metal is that expensive - for example, check out the prices for alloy tubing here :
The Aluminium Shop Alloy 6082T6 - General Purpose Engineering Grade
and that's without any bulk discount. You can get odd lengths even cheaper from a decent scrap yard. If I wanted something like this, I probably would build one. But I don't - so I won't - I'd rather spend the money on time in a real aircraft!
12-02-2008, 05:06 AM
Flyboy45

Re: Motion sickness in your living room with Dreamflyer

Thanks for the info on the tubing. I had no idea just how much it cost. 1 3/4 is 34.84 a foot, that's Euro's. Roughly $50. There is approx 29 foot on the Dreamflyer. $1400. or so. Even with a discount. I would much rather spend my time in a plane too, but just can't get out as much as I would like. Next best thing I guess.
24-02-2008, 05:50 PM
Flyboy45

Re: Motion sickness in your living room with Dreamflyer

Greealien, Sorry I screwed up on the price, the lengths were in metric and my conversions were off. I found some sites in North America. I thought that it was priced by the foot, but it's in 6 foot lengths. So that does make it a lot cheaper than I thought. I decided to buy a Dreamflyer anyways. Well my wife bought it for me. Now I have to share it. It's pretty cool flying in a dark room. I managed to land on the aircraft carrier at night. Took a few tries.