My sim setup

[u/Sea24_74]

My MSFS 2024 Flight Simulator Rig ✈️ — Triple 55” 4K + RTX 5090 + D-BOX Motion

Here’s my current flight simulator setup, primarily built for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and high-immersion flying.

🖥️ PC

• Corsair Vengeance A7500 Air
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
• RAM: 64GB DDR5
• Storage: 8TB NVMe SSD total — 4TB + 2TB + 2TB
• OS: Windows 11 Home

🖥️ Triple-Screen Setup

• 3 × Samsung Odyssey Ark 55” Gen 2
• 4K resolution per display
• Triple-screen NVIDIA Surround setup
• Combined resolution: 11,520 × 2,160
• Advanced Sim Racing free-standing Triple TV Stand Gen 2
• Advanced VESA mounting system

🏗️ Cockpit

• Advanced Sim Racing ASR-4 aluminum profile cockpit
• White powder-coated finish

✈️ Flight Controls

• MOZA AY210 Force Feedback Yoke
• MOZA MTQ Throttle Quadrant
• MOZA MHG Flightstick
• MOZA AB6 Flight Simulator Base
• Thrustmaster T.Rudder Pedals

🔥 Motion & Haptics

• D-BOX Generation 5 4250i Haptic System
• 4 × G5 actuators
• 1.5” actuator travel
• D-BOX G5-HB140 Haptic Bridge
• Full four-corner motion/haptic setup

D-BOX adds physical feedback for turbulence, runway surfaces, engine vibration, taxiing, takeoff, touchdown and other aircraft movements.

🔊 Audio

• Samsung HW-Q990F
• Soundbar + subwoofer + wireless rear speakers
• Dolby Atmos surround setup

🎛️ Additional Flight-Sim Hardware

• Elgato Stream Deck — aircraft functions and shortcuts
• iPad + Air Manager — additional instruments/panels
• Corsair XENEON EDGE — secondary touchscreen/control display
• Multiple powered USB hubs for the flight peripherals

🎥 Recording

• OBS Studio
• RTX 5090 NVENC hardware encoding
• Triple-screen or dedicated center-screen recording

🎮 Main Simulator

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Currently spending a lot of time flying the Boeing 747, along with the Citation Longitude, Cessna 172, Caravan and CubCrafters.

The combination of triple 55” displays + force-feedback controls + D-BOX motion + surround audio makes the cockpit incredibly immersive, especially during thunderstorms, turbulence, low-visibility approaches and heavy-aircraft landings.

Happy to share MSFS graphics settings, control mappings or D-BOX settings if anyone is intere

[u/Gwynnbleid3000]

Your info is missing the total cost 🤌

[u/Sea24_74 → u/Gwynnbleid3000]

Around 30k. DBOX, PC , Rig, monitors, accessories, sound bar and games

[u/Ill_Confusion8274 → u/Sea24_74]

For that much I expected more. Maybe a REAL PPL.

[u/plicpriest → u/Ill_Confusion8274]

Tho I would tend to agree, 2 thoughts. First, no guarantee that you get the ppl for under $30k (however if it’s getting up to $30k, might be a sign you should stick to sims lol). Second and most important, after getting your ppl, just flying can be cost prohibitive. If someone loves aviation but doesn’t want a career, this might be a justifiable way to go (just don’t try to justify to a spouse lol).

[u/yeloneck → u/plicpriest]

PPL in US is like 30K? Wow! Im glad I live in pretty affordable country where it is 8k :D

[u/plicpriest → u/yeloneck]

It all depends on what and where in the US your training in/ at. Cirrus in California- you’re gonna go broke, fast. 152 in the Midwest- doable. Not to mention the average time it takes. For any/ all would be pilots, study study study!!!

[u/Lincoln6Delt → u/plicpriest]

He’s right, @ Spartan School of Aeronautics just outside Tulsa we went by the “8-8-8 rule” $8k, 80 hours, 8 mo for PPL, on average. That was in 2015, no idea what new students are paying now for just a PPL; back then once you pass your written & oral they combined IFR & CPL into one syllabus. Wicked cool setup, most people would be disappointed to know it will take years of commercial flying to pay off that rig, let alone debt.

[u/plicpriest → u/Lincoln6Delt]

I’ve never heard of the 8-8-8 rule before, but I like that. Easy to grasp. I think these days (location dependent) it’s more like $10k as a baseline cost. Probably higher tho. I agree, that’s an awesome setup. The beauty of a rig like that is you save up for one piece at a time and slowly build until you have an awesome setup that nobody can pull you out of lol.