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Some people who use simulator software, especially flight simulator software, build their own simulator at home.

Some people — to further the realism of their homemade simulator — buy used cards and racks that run the same software used by the original machine.

While this involves solving the problem of matching hardware and software — and the problem that hundreds of cards plug into many different racks — many still find that solving these problems is well worthwhile.

Some are so serious about realistic simulation that they will buy real aircraft parts, like complete nose sections of written-off aircraft, at aircraft boneyards.

This permits people to simulate a hobby that they are unable to pursue in real life.