Dad Builds Functional 737 Cockpit in Kids’ Bedroom

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Did your father ever build you something really cool to show off to your friends? Well chances are it can’t come even close to the magnitude of coolness created by a French waiter, Laurent Aigon for his kid’s bedroom. The 737 cockpit project took him over five years and thousands of dollars in parts to create a working flight simulator. Très bien. :cool:
 
Wow! How does a waiter end up with this kind of craftsmanship and waste it listening to arrogant patrons complain about their food all day!? The militaryvspend millions on sims like this...
 
when i read the hardforum main page for news, i had to read it three times and than i thought his name is French Waiter, but than i read the main link and realized he is indeed a waiter.

where the hell does he work?
 
Bet he never hooks the tail in San Fran...
 
Can we get a dedication to some of the finest pilots out there?

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Something tells me the kid would've been perfectly happy without a hunk or lights and shrapnel occupying space which he's probably already bored with, and this project was really all about dad.
 
Send the NSA over there...he's obviously training terrorists.
 
ZING!!! Ha Ha Ha

To those surprised a waiter can do more than get your order wrong, that seems a little simple-minded. Not everyone places a career as their main priority. Not everyone is a slave to social status. Jeepers...

Aigon is not a pilot by trade; he's a waiter who always wanted to be a pilot.

Appears if he had it his way, this WOULD have been his career. This is a prime example of how the system is fucked up. You need a piece of paper saying your capable of having a job. To get that piece of paper, you have to spend thousands of dollars in the overpriced education system. Unless you inherited a fortune, you end up getting pigeon-holed into job that wastes your natural talents and before you know it, your youth is gone and so is your dream....

Don't mind me....im just bitter.
 
Appears if he had it his way, this WOULD have been his career. This is a prime example of how the system is fucked up. You need a piece of paper saying your capable of having a job. To get that piece of paper, you have to spend thousands of dollars in the overpriced education system. Unless you inherited a fortune, you end up getting pigeon-holed into job that wastes your natural talents and before you know it, your youth is gone and so is your dream....

Don't mind me....im just bitter.

I agree about the piece of paper thing. And while I hate the system with a burning fashion, the only place in Europe with expensive university grade education is the UK. No need for loans anywhere else around here as far as I know.
 
ZING!!! Ha Ha Ha

To those surprised a waiter can do more than get your order wrong, that seems a little simple-minded. Not everyone places a career as their main priority. Not everyone is a slave to social status. Jeepers...

Dude, I'm not surprised a waiter can accomplish this, I'm surprised that he's wasting his life being a waiter in the first place instead of building simulators, or at least movie props! Now, who is simple minded?
 
Please. My Dad "let" me bring he and his poker buddies beers during their weekly card game. The gift that keeps on gifting...
 
Why is this guy only a waiter? That talent needs a better job.
 
Wow, a waiter could afford all of that :eek:

Hmm, maybe he is a waiter because the military subcontractor he worked for when under and instead of sitting on his but siting sorry for himself and living off a gub-ment check ;he is working to support his family.
Any HONEST work is GOOD work. The rest is up to you. Something tells me he won't be a waiter too long.
 
For those of you who never make it past the headline....he has plans. :cool:

He was invited to lecture at the Institute of Aircraft Maintenance at Bordeaux-Merignac, which also used his simulator to train its students.

What's next for Aigon? He's hoping to complete the five-year certification process required to make a career out of building flight simulators.
 
Dude, I'm not surprised a waiter can accomplish this, I'm surprised that he's wasting his life being a waiter in the first place instead of building simulators, or at least movie props! Now, who is simple minded?

Im surprised people comment before reading the article and imply others are simple minded.

"What's next for Aigon? He's hoping to complete the five-year certification process required to make a career out of building flight simulators."
 
by the way: tres bien means very well, I think what steve meant to says was : tres bon meaning very good.
 
For those of you who never make it past the headline....he has plans. :cool:

He was invited to lecture at the Institute of Aircraft Maintenance at Bordeaux-Merignac, which also used his simulator to train its students.

What's next for Aigon? He's hoping to complete the five-year certification process required to make a career out of building flight simulators.
Right, but those are only prospects, not guaranteed. And being a waiter for five more years while he completes his certification process (which seems a rather long time tbh) also seems a disservice to his ability. Hopefully some company picks him up and trains him on the job.
 
Dude, I'm not surprised a waiter can accomplish this, I'm surprised that he's wasting his life being a waiter in the first place instead of building simulators, or at least movie props! Now, who is simple minded?

I guess that would be me? :confused:

Again, why is he WASTING his life being a waiter? How is that wasting? It's a job. And, probably one of the hardest jobs. I'd live in a van down by the river before being a waiter. But, I'm an underachiever...


...and I did say "JEEPERS" to take out the seriousness of my post. Gah...
 
ZING!!! Ha Ha Ha

To those surprised a waiter can do more than get your order wrong, that seems a little simple-minded. Not everyone places a career as their main priority. Not everyone is a slave to social status. Jeepers...

He's 40... He's done everything BUT "be a pilot."

He's a waiter... It's pretty obvious he has other priorities. I never said he DIDN'T want to be more than a waiter or didn't have dreams. But those dreams evidently took a backseat to other things. Don't get pissed at me because some trashed him for being a waiter..

I shall add no JEEPERS here, as I am correct in my first post.

Go fuck yourself, San Diego!
 
Functional?

I doubt that very much, unless the function of the cockpit in a 737 has nothing to do with the 737.
 
Functional?

I doubt that very much, unless the function of the cockpit in a 737 has nothing to do with the 737.

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Functional as in it's not just for looks like a lot of mockups are. The buttons and controls work just as they would in a functioning plane except this is "only" a simulator.

They should give him 4 years of credit for the 5 years of school. That is what is wrong with schooling.... In the realm of education school >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> work/real life experience but in the real world experience > education. Sadly there's no meeting point. It's all or nothing.
 
More dads should do awesome stuff with their kids instead of playing video games and downloading porn in their spare time.
 
More dads should do awesome stuff with their kids instead of playing video games and downloading porn in their spare time.

This ^^^^^^^

I'm trying to think of something cool like this my Dad did, but alas I cannot.

The coolest thing he ever did for me, and it was pretty cool, was give me a new Pickup Truck.

He bought a 73 F150 4X4 new. 2 days after buying it, the Transmission locked up (it had the heavy duty granny-low 4 speed & 2 speed transfer case).

It was towed to the dealer, and they said it would be 3 weeks for the parts. He was pissed.

A few days later he drove up to the house in a new Chevy. I asked him what about the Ford and he threw me the keys and said "If it ever gets out of the shop, it's yours. Happy Graduation" :)
 
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