Photo: George Fetting
Australian amateur pilot and flight sim enthusiast Matthew Sheil spent 10 years and $230,000 to create a homemade flight simulator that precisely mimics the 747 cockpit down to the last dial, knob, and switch!
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/whatsnew/0c17921ff7390110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/2.html | Matthew's website (tons more photos, but I can only see 'em in IE, not Firefox)