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Who can afford this, especially in Arizona? Even FAANG people are (mostly) not making enough money to justify to themselves purchasing a home like this.
There are, in fact, rich people in Arizona. The universe doesn't revolve around FAANG salaries divided by the cost of living in the Bay Area.
The flight sim is the Redbird FMX[1]. It's fun. It's FAA approved. Starts at $71,900.

To be honest I'm not sure why these things are so expensive. The software is usually Prepar3d/X-Plane which is cheap (less that $500). I don't know what they are using for the instrument panel but it looked to me like a screen covered by a cutout to make it look like the "steam gauges". There is Air Manager which can do this ($40). RealSimGear [2] which makes the panels which look like the G1000 PFD/MFD combo which is like $2k. I think it can use either the G1000 implementation from X-Plane, a custom plugin, in some cases the legit Garmin trainer software. A gaming computer is $2k, 3-4 50" monitors can be $1k-$3k (LCD to OLED). There are many vendors for yokes, throttle controls, flap lever, at varying prices depending on realism. So what justifies the $80k+ price tag? FAA approval, 3 dof?

[1] https://simulators.redbirdflight.com/products/fmx

[2] https://realsimgear.com/collections/gps-units/products/reals...