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Old 05-08-2017, 06:38 AM   #1
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CrisZenithBlue your set up looks great.

A while back I was looking to buy a driving simulator. I had done a lot of investigating and learned a lot.... then I went to the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana (CA) to watch Tom Stone race. They had several real nice simulator set up with multiple units set running. I waited in line and for fifteen minutes an "drove" the a simulator. Very cool.... but I got "car sick". The motion sickness was bad.

I have always had an issue with motion sickness. When the kids were young I couldn't take them on a merry go round. When I attended a driver's training at work and I would get sick after a session on the track. I skydived once and got sick.

Harry Callahan said it best, "A man's got to know his limitations."

Ugh.... my plans to get a simulator were over.
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Old 05-08-2017, 09:43 PM   #2
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Feel your pain Chuck

I have a rare eye disorder , my left eye only has about 15% visibility in a slender curtain at the top...I hve very poor depth of field in close....but really good out past 6 feet..The huge wrap around monitors made me queasy. This simulator was around 50 grand.....it was not for me at all. I drove a NASCAR last year for my birthday at Talladega ...I had no problem with that and even posted faster times than the speed limiter was supposed to allow...the guy on the head set said my laps were the smoothest of the day with no wasted motion.....but I was only turning left in the M&M's Car.

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