For those of you who maybe interested, especially Australians.I had a terrific experience yesterday. I had my first flightever, in a commercial simulator. This is located at DarlingHarbour, Sydney, Australia.It's a full size 737-400 simulator flight deck, with all real instruments,& a very helpful co-pilot, who either does it all or helps you with as much as you like. You can start engines, program the FMC,take off manually, follow sids & stars manually & land if youwish.They have various offerings, from half hour, one hour, & moreexpensive options.I was really impressed, as I'd never used the real yoke, twirlinstruments, spoiler lever, full sized thrust levers, gearlevers, etc. It was so exhausting scanning the vital readings& doing so many crucial things at once - barely had time tolook out the window. I completed the Melbourne to Sydney flight& it really makes you realise how difficult real flight is.I am in no way connected with the company.A great bonus is a full DVD of you in action plus still shots. Peter Sydney Australia

Yes, but what we really want to know is, how many frames per second did you get?Heh.

and how bad were the blurries :)

....and did the toilets flush anticlockwise:+

By the way Pete ... if you really, really, really liked it, you can get one of your very own. Probably doesn't cost much more than a Captain Sim add-on:http://cgi.liquibiz.com/auction/view?id=15...CFQ-QGgodPWSNfQCheers Mate,Kevin(I keeeeed the Captain! Avast Matey! Arrg!)

Thanks boys!When you see a life size simulator, it makes me realisewhat a superb sim FSX is & the astronomical amount of programming that has been done by all, especially usingmy good machine with Vista.For those interested their site is flightexperience.com.auPeter Sydney Australia

there is an article about it herehttp://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,2605...5012672,00.html