Hello.I just thought I'd share here a little link to a small but I hope interesting article. I went for a small trip in Amsterdam last week. And what I was going to do there was to fly a real Level-D class simulator of a Boeing 737-800. So After getting the manuals in Decemeber I spent a few hours in this simulator and know as everyone I'm even more eager to go through the airplanes even more under fsx.So that's it a bit of story about my time in the real thing, which as you can guess was really amazing.http://www.jeuxdaventure.org/flyanairliner_en.htmlI hope you'll enjoy the reading, and it'll distract you a little about waiting the PMDG one :( And of course I'll be more than happy to answer any questions you might have, and will try to answer ASAP.Hope you'll enjoy the article.Cheers.Aurelien

Very cool. I have had a very similar experience in the last 3 months. Recently, I was visiting Singapore, and I noticed that there was a 737 simulator in a store and they sold rides. Though it was not a motion sim, it was a great cockpit! if you want, here is the link to the chain of 737/787 sim's from this same company around the world...flightexperience.combest regards,Sam Cordell

How were the simulator's graphics in comparison to FSX?

Hello.I just thought I'd share here a little link to a small but I hope interesting article. I went for a small trip in Amsterdam last week. And ...

Thanks for sharing your experience. Great constructive post! Do you know who manufactured the particular sim you were in?

How were the simulator's graphics in comparison to FSX?

Well I'd say different it's not as nice as Microsoft with addons. But I don't know the techical side but I believe it's using vector graphics so basically many things felt much nicer like the signes of the taxiway. Obviously it's not as details on the graphics of the ground for example, but still there are visual scenery, so I think it's also a little like FSX you have some scenery that are much better than others, where it must be default things :) So I think it shares some common things but also very different. You also have a few things you can play like the runaway lights intensity to see it a bit better which can sometime be very usefull :) What's really at the heart is the many situations it can handles, and of course, loading times while there are no loading screen obviously are much shorter, I think it just takes somewhere around 10 to 30 seconds to get from a situation to another. It's really an amazing thing to be in such a simulator.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Great constructive post! Do you know who manufactured the particular sim you were in?

It's a JAR-FCL1A Level D simulator built by CAE according to the FSC website.

Very very cool post. Thank you! Wow I am jealous of you though, I must say. One day I want to spend some (extended) time in a Level D simulator (of a 737, 787, 777, etc one can dream).Thanks again, glad to see you had a good time and at the same time learned a lot!Regards

Surely sounds like you've had a great time!How much did you pay for this? :)Any links to book a session with instructor?

Surely sounds like you've had a great time!How much did you pay for this? :)Any links to book a session with instructor?

BA's simulators and prices here (London):http://www.ebaft.com/fly/fse.htmI had a go a few years ago: huge fun.Tim

There is one of these in Sydney - Flight Experience is the company, if memory serves. I'm also fairly certain they use FS9 and the PMDG 737 as the basis of their simulator. It's a fantastic simulator - I'd love to have the money to try it out one day.http://www.flightexperience.com.au/darling-harbour

One discovery I made was that many of the little switches are not just flipping switches but that you have to pull and then move it just a small bit for a big part of them. That is impossible to really feel on PC simulator but that you do have to know.

We've got this modeled in the animations at least for the NGX.

There is one of these in Sydney - Flight Experience is the company, if memory serves. I'm also fairly certain they use FS9 and the PMDG 737 as the basis of their simulator. It's a fantastic simulator - I'd love to have the money to try it out one day.http://www.flightexp...darling-harbour

Flight Experience started here in Christchurch, by a local flight simmer in his garage, using a 767 cockpit. Then it was rebuilt from scratch with a 737 NG cockpit. It was sold to a corporate buyer some years back, I believe it may have been franchised out.They had one for sale recently, $500,000 US. Was tempted, but the missus spat the dummy.

Than you very much Aurélien for sharing this nice experience :(

Surely sounds like you've had a great time!How much did you pay for this? :)Any links to book a session with instructor?

I wanted a great experience so I took three hours which costed 1599€, the base hour being at 549€. Yhe website is at http://www.flyanairliner.com There might not be booking schedule but just send an email to get information, they'll get in touch quickly and help you setup your time.

We've got this modeled in the animations at least for the NGX.

Well that's explaining a bit on how you come to get to the maximum animation limit of FSX, that'll really be amazing, really can't wait to see it and put to test what I did in the simulator. It'll be really great.

Flight Experience started here in Christchurch, by a local flight simmer in his garage, using a 767 cockpit. Then it was rebuilt from scratch with a 737 NG cockpit. It was sold to a corporate buyer some years back, I believe it may have been franchised out.They had one for sale recently, $500,000 US. Was tempted, but the missus spat the dummy.

Yes, I remember 'Flight Experience' opened a center in Queenstown in September 2006. I was lucky because I got to try it out on their very first day of operation. I believe that they used the magenta software to operate the 737 NG. It wasn't a full motion simulator but it was a lot of fun trying to fly an approach into the infamous Q-town....:( Regards,jen noulet