Commercial simulator

[cat 2]

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

[Guest fsxmissionguy]

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

[Guest]

and how bad were the blurries :)

[Dougal 165]

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

[Guest fsxmissionguy]

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!)

[cat 2]

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

[clayton4115 56]

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