CRJ 700 level-d sim at Montreal (CAE), and Dash 8 Q400 at Downsview Ontario (Flightsafety Inc.). Maintenance based training mostly, but we did do some flying.

I flew about 10 hours with our class and about 2 of them I flew myself (I am not a pilot though). We flew over Houston TX, then moved to Quito to make RNAV approach, and ended up in EWR landed CAT III. Also instructor showed how to fly with engine failure at V1, then with double engine failure at 10,000 ft. He made it right in touchdown zone in Quito with both engines dead. Also we sow how challenging to land with 40 kts cross wind. Amazing. I was hand flying but with no failures, for me it was more then enough. For me it was a bit harder than in FSX, because real sim NG was not that sensitive as FSX one. I landed on RWY shoulder couple of times but the following landings were better, not perfect but acceptable. It was cool because all motions and turbulence were simulated, also if you land hard you will feel as same as you would land hard in real airplane and made me nervous. As for graphics they used Google earth with cars moving on interstate and staff like that. It was unforgettable.

I've frequently flown in a variety of 737 sims, mostly classics and jurassics. As an engineer I got to know the systems well. No problems with takeoff or landing. Whether I could land the real thing in anything but perfect conditions I couldn't say.

You are joking !That's the home of CAE, the biggest maker of Level-d sims in the world.I'm an ongoing beta tester for their Tropos 6000 software.http://www2.icao.int...al%20System.pdfhttp://www.cae.com/e...tropos.6000.pdfhttp://www.cae.com/en/Fred.

This means you never heard about CAE / Mechtronix ?.

CRJ 700 level-d sim at Montreal (CAE), and Dash 8 Q400 at Downsview Ontario (Flightsafety Inc.). Maintenance based training mostly, but we did do some flying.

Wow...I had no idea at all!I just moved recently to Montreal, still going through the government for my residency papers.I had no clue that CAE was here. I wish I could book some sim time with them. My plans for work was to go work at CYUL with Air Canada doing whatever I could to get my foot in the door.Long term goal is to hire on to a small regional airline as an FO to start. First I have to finish my French classes though.

So .... look for it ... it usually cost 500$ to win. Maybe I'll be your demonstrator !

Hey Zangy ole' buddy ... hook me up !!! Let me just say .... I know how to show my appreciation (wink,wink)

WestJunk was taking public bookings for their -700 sim in YYC as of a couple years ago, although it seems they are too busy for that nowadays. I knew a couple people that took advantage of the offer and I remember it being quite reasonable price-wise (I want to say like 280-300 bucks an hour).Never been in a sim although did ride jump with a couple charters way back in the day when WJ was still operating -200's. Those were good times.

I've done everything, but in a fixed-base sim, Not a Level-D. It was pretty realistic though!

I've been lucky enough to have flown in the following Level-D simulators, without recent real world flight experience, and in every case it was a thrilling and humbling experience:

• B717
• B737NG
• B747-400
• B757
• B767
• B777
• A320
• MD11
• MD80

All of the landings were manually accomplished, and, oddly enough, my best ones were in the "low tech" MD80.If you have the chance and can afford it, I highly recommend it. The experience is realistic enough that my sister (who was along as an observer) had to keep opening the window shade on the sim entrance door to convince herself that we were still on the ground. (She's a fearful flyer.)Larry Johnson

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Been in a 737 sim plenty. If you want to learn how to land, I'd say you'd be better off renting a Cessna than wasting time in a sim.

Yes - Flight Experience Melbourne. LFPG to EGHH with a young female Qantas trainee. Somewhat disappointing (the sim) but she was quite impressed with my knowledge of the aircraft systems. Landed okay but kissed the grass on touch down. Fortunately she remembered to arm the spoilers as I forgot in all the excitement.

A few months ago I spent 2 hours in a full motion Level D sim. I am not a pilot, but got proficient in our litttle 737NGX and was very well prepared. I had no problems with a cold dark start up, taxing and nice landings on difficult approaches. I even did 2 ILS approaches with some nasty weather. The NGX is really damn close to the real thing, especially if you have a realistic yoke and good pedals like the Saitek ones. Trust me, if you can do a complete flight with your NGX - from a cold/dark state and stick a landing, you should be quite capable of doing this on a full motion sim. I proved it many times with a 767 sim, and a 747 sim. BTW 2 hours costs $1,000. That's me in the 737 sim.

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I haven't had any time in a 737 sim, but I have had 7 hours in a 767 sim at YVR. I am slowly but surely building my own 737 pit with Cockpit sonic and FDS parts. I am building my own panel, screen bezels and overhead mount.

I've also been in a 737-700 simulator, but sadly it's already over 2 years ago and back then the NGX was far from being released and I only flew the MD11. The onest thing I can remember really well is that I had problems keeping the aircraft in leveled flight at a constat speed because it is very different when you have such strong forces on your controls.

Spend 4 hours in a full-motion NG simulator made by CAE. First landing in GVA was a hard one (flared way to early). After that, I made some pretty good approaches and landings. Slightly related; I also have "flown" on A330 and 747-400 simulators. Great experiences.

I've been once for four hours straight, I was able to land though I must said on the many landings I did if all went well, I mean I did not crash obviously, only a very few were soft landings. It's really where you get to feel how it flies, because of course even if it was before PMDG released the 737NGX, just the weight of the yoke is something really different, so when all you had until then was time with simple joystick it's really something else.I really wish I could have much more experience like this. I did that in Amsterdam with Fly An Airliner on a Level-D Full Motion Simulator. The guy I flew with was really nice and interesting it was a whole lot of fun to be there. Though I must said 4 hours of manual flying is really something, you really also understand the neads for automated flight systems, and how much relief it can get to the pilots :)Can read my little report here : http://www.jeuxdaventure.org/flyanairliner_en.html