One such enthusiast created the Warthog Project, a fully functional A-10 cockpit for Digital Combat Simulator ... and all the design files are available for free if you want to build your own.

flight instruments, and bays of avionics that look like they came out of a cockpit. The simulator sits facing a wall with an overhead LCD projector providing views of the outside world.

the nearby virtual aircraft of other Flight Simulator users. And this visualization, from within the cockpit to an external view, is rendered cinematically as if seen through a camera lens ...