That kind of got me hooked.

He commissioned a Canadian company to build the shell of the cockpit, and he bought component parts of the mock 737 from different companies.

Putting together the simulator was a self-taught process; there’s no how-to book for this. He consulted YouTube videos and websites of hardware manufacturers and spent days tending to details. Once, he says, it took a weekend to get the color on the head of a screw just right.

“It’ll always be sort of a work in progress,” he says.

Learning how to use the simulator took a while, but Sayre says it’s not as difficult as one might think. Flight is controlled with a throttle and yoke, the steering wheel of the plane, and foot pedals steer the plane when it’s on the ground.

The amount of time he spends in the garage varies. Sometimes he’ll fly for hours, days in a row. Other times, he’ll ignore the simulator for a month. But he always goes back to it, working to make it just a little bigger, a little better.

“I’m just obsessed with it.”

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