Flight Control Simulator

A good friend recently passed away. Ron Whitehouse spent much of his life as a pilot, but as he got older he developed health issues that prevented him from enjoying his passion. He visited my store, tried my old flight simulator and purchased a production "Canadian Made" Dreamflyer. He wanted everything to be the best. The computer has the ENG 260 863 meg video card, 4 gigs ram, Blue Ray drive, a real deluxe unit. His Dreamflyer got the all upgrades I recommended, it is equipped with a Saitek throttle assembly, Pro Fight Switch box, Elipse keyboard, Acer projector, with 6' Quartex screen, Track IR, Behringer HPS headset and Acer P249W HiDef LCD monitor. I'm willing to bet that this is the nicest Dreamflyer on the planet. His widow, Judy, asked me what it was worth and how she should sell it. My guess is that replacing this would be over $10,000. Since I sold him much of it I don't think I'm over estimating. Judy said she would be happy if she got $6000 and it went to someone that would enjoy it as much as Ron did. If you are interested in this premium unit please email me at docsh@shaw.ca or phone 250-490-7636

I started this little adventure in 2000 by ordering Ken Hill's Joyrider plans. The unit was so much fun that I started to tinker.
Dec 2005, Mark Yarnell liked my Joyrider so much that he commissioned me to build him one. A local welder owed me a bunch of money so I figured that was one way to get it back. When it was finished it was a major improvement, not even close to the original. One of the first things I discovered was that the Joyrider works because it is made from flexible plastic tubing. Making it from metal is a whole new ball game. I tried at least five different linkages before I got one that worked. I thought that I was beat several times before the correct combination was found.
I sent a picture to Maximum PC and they featured it as the "Rig of the Month." I was sure it was perfect, but testing brought up a few flaws. Unable to leave it alone I started a quest for the solution.
Spring 2006 I sent a demo tape to the Discovery Channel's Daily Planet. Two days later I fell from the sky with a broken back, OUCH! Just back at work, I get a call from them wanting to do a show immediately. Before the crash I had disassembled the unit to make some changes and I was in no shape to re-assemble it so I stalled and got two weeks. I hired a welder and we worked long hours getting it back together the night before the shoot. When Mark Miller appeared I had no idea how it would work, but got lucky.

I have an entirely new design, the Cloudwalker which addresses the problems of the production model.

They displayed at Oshkosh and the Abbotsford Air shows and received very favorable reviews. Numerous skilled pilots tried and liked the Dreamflyer. Gene Soucy and Buck Roetman gave me a flying lesson. Thanks Guys.

"Flight Simulator X: Acceleration!"