• Want to "Fly" a 737

    From keithr0@3:633/280.2 to All on Sat Sep 30 14:22:46 2023
    Queensland air museum at Caloudra on the Sunshine coast now has a
    737-800 simulator.

    https://www.qldair.museum/bookings#SIM737

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  • From Sylvia Else@3:633/280.2 to All on Sat Sep 30 14:40:48 2023
    On 30-Sept-23 2:22 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    Queensland air museum at Caloudra on the Sunshine coast now has a
    737-800 simulator.

    https://www.qldair.museum/bookings#SIM737

    Not a motion simulator. Bummer.

    Sylvia.

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  • From Daryl@3:633/280.2 to All on Sat Sep 30 15:33:10 2023
    On 30/9/2023 2:22 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    Queensland air museum at Caloudra on the Sunshine coast now has a
    737-800 simulator.

    https://www.qldair.museum/bookings#SIM737


    I think that that is going to be rather busy:-)


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  • From keithr0@3:633/280.2 to All on Sat Sep 30 17:00:28 2023
    On 30/09/2023 3:33 pm, Daryl wrote:
    On 30/9/2023 2:22 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    Queensland air museum at Caloudra on the Sunshine coast now has a
    737-800 simulator.

    https://www.qldair.museum/bookings#SIM737


    I think that that is going to be rather busy:-)


    Even in the first few weeks we have had quite a few people through.
    Currently we are limited by only having one guide, but there are a
    couple more ex-pilots who will come onstream soon and I expect it to be working at least 6 days a week.

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  • From keithr0@3:633/280.2 to All on Sat Sep 30 17:07:31 2023
    On 30/09/2023 2:40 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
    On 30-Sept-23 2:22 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    Queensland air museum at Caloudra on the Sunshine coast now has a
    737-800 simulator.

    https://www.qldair.museum/bookings#SIM737

    Not a motion simulator. Bummer.

    Sylvia.

    Nope, that would be impractical for an organisation like ours, too big
    and too much maintenance. It is a professional setup though running professional software on two powerful computers (I9 CPU 32 gig RAM), the cockpit is a complete representation of the real thing, and the 220
    degree screen is quite immersive. A Bonza 737 pilot had a flight in it
    and declared it a good representation of the real thing. I was standing
    behind it when the pilot put it into a relatively steep bank, I had to
    hold on to something to avoid falling over.

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  • From Daryl@3:633/280.2 to All on Sat Sep 30 19:27:03 2023
    On 30/9/2023 5:07 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    On 30/09/2023 2:40 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
    On 30-Sept-23 2:22 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    Queensland air museum at Caloudra on the Sunshine coast now has a
    737-800 simulator.

    https://www.qldair.museum/bookings#SIM737

    Not a motion simulator. Bummer.

    Sylvia.

    Nope, that would be impractical for an organisation like ours, too big
    and too much maintenance. It is a professional setup though running professional software on two powerful computers (I9 CPU 32 gig RAM), the cockpit is a complete representation of the real thing, and the 220
    degree screen is quite immersive. A Bonza 737 pilot had a flight in it
    and declared it a good representation of the real thing. I was standing behind it when the pilot put it into a relatively steep bank, I had to
    hold on to something to avoid falling over.


    Sounds pretty cool.


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  • From Sylvia Else@3:633/280.2 to All on Sat Sep 30 21:59:59 2023
    On 30-Sept-23 5:07 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    On 30/09/2023 2:40 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
    On 30-Sept-23 2:22 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    Queensland air museum at Caloudra on the Sunshine coast now has a
    737-800 simulator.

    https://www.qldair.museum/bookings#SIM737

    Not a motion simulator. Bummer.

    Sylvia.

    Nope, that would be impractical for an organisation like ours, too big
    and too much maintenance. It is a professional setup though running professional software on two powerful computers (I9 CPU 32 gig RAM), the cockpit is a complete representation of the real thing, and the 220
    degree screen is quite immersive. A Bonza 737 pilot had a flight in it
    and declared it a good representation of the real thing. I was standing behind it when the pilot put it into a relatively steep bank, I had to
    hold on to something to avoid falling over.

    Sorry, I didn't realise you were involved, or I'd have expressed myself
    a bit more diplomatically, or indeed just kept my thoughts to myself.

    Sylvia.

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  • From keithr0@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Oct 1 12:06:05 2023
    On 30/09/2023 9:59 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
    On 30-Sept-23 5:07 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    On 30/09/2023 2:40 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
    On 30-Sept-23 2:22 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    Queensland air museum at Caloudra on the Sunshine coast now has a
    737-800 simulator.

    https://www.qldair.museum/bookings#SIM737

    Not a motion simulator. Bummer.

    Sylvia.

    Nope, that would be impractical for an organisation like ours, too big
    and too much maintenance. It is a professional setup though running
    professional software on two powerful computers (I9 CPU 32 gig RAM),
    the cockpit is a complete representation of the real thing, and the
    220 degree screen is quite immersive. A Bonza 737 pilot had a flight
    in it and declared it a good representation of the real thing. I was
    standing behind it when the pilot put it into a relatively steep bank,
    I had to hold on to something to avoid falling over.

    Sorry, I didn't realise you were involved, or I'd have expressed myself
    a bit more diplomatically, or indeed just kept my thoughts to myself.

    Sylvia.

    That's not a problem, as I said, full motion simulators are the province
    of professional organisations, they are complex and expensive to
    maintain, we could not make such a thing financially viable. Also the
    target demographic is the general public, and that is not a target
    audience for a full motion simulator, they break too easily in unskilled hands.

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  • From Sylvia Else@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Oct 1 12:22:11 2023
    On 01-Oct-23 12:06 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    On 30/09/2023 9:59 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
    On 30-Sept-23 5:07 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    On 30/09/2023 2:40 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
    On 30-Sept-23 2:22 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    Queensland air museum at Caloudra on the Sunshine coast now has a
    737-800 simulator.

    https://www.qldair.museum/bookings#SIM737

    Not a motion simulator. Bummer.

    Sylvia.

    Nope, that would be impractical for an organisation like ours, too
    big and too much maintenance. It is a professional setup though
    running professional software on two powerful computers (I9 CPU 32
    gig RAM), the cockpit is a complete representation of the real thing,
    and the 220 degree screen is quite immersive. A Bonza 737 pilot had a
    flight in it and declared it a good representation of the real thing.
    I was standing behind it when the pilot put it into a relatively
    steep bank, I had to hold on to something to avoid falling over.

    Sorry, I didn't realise you were involved, or I'd have expressed
    myself a bit more diplomatically, or indeed just kept my thoughts to
    myself.

    Sylvia.

    That's not a problem, as I said, full motion simulators are the province
    of professional organisations, they are complex and expensive to
    maintain, we could not make such a thing financially viable. Also the
    target demographic is the general public, and that is not a target
    audience for a full motion simulator, they break too easily in unskilled hands.

    I'd rather assumed that a full motion simulator could take whatever was
    thrown at it, at least as far as the motion specific part was concerned.

    I can see that they'd be expensive to maintain though.

    Sylvia.

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  • From keithr0@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Oct 1 18:59:34 2023
    On 1/10/2023 11:22 am, Sylvia Else wrote:
    On 01-Oct-23 12:06 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    On 30/09/2023 9:59 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
    On 30-Sept-23 5:07 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    On 30/09/2023 2:40 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
    On 30-Sept-23 2:22 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    Queensland air museum at Caloudra on the Sunshine coast now has a >>>>>> 737-800 simulator.

    https://www.qldair.museum/bookings#SIM737

    Not a motion simulator. Bummer.

    Sylvia.

    Nope, that would be impractical for an organisation like ours, too
    big and too much maintenance. It is a professional setup though
    running professional software on two powerful computers (I9 CPU 32
    gig RAM), the cockpit is a complete representation of the real
    thing, and the 220 degree screen is quite immersive. A Bonza 737
    pilot had a flight in it and declared it a good representation of
    the real thing. I was standing behind it when the pilot put it into
    a relatively steep bank, I had to hold on to something to avoid
    falling over.

    Sorry, I didn't realise you were involved, or I'd have expressed
    myself a bit more diplomatically, or indeed just kept my thoughts to
    myself.

    Sylvia.

    That's not a problem, as I said, full motion simulators are the
    province of professional organisations, they are complex and expensive
    to maintain, we could not make such a thing financially viable. Also
    the target demographic is the general public, and that is not a target
    audience for a full motion simulator, they break too easily in
    unskilled hands.

    I'd rather assumed that a full motion simulator could take whatever was thrown at it, at least as far as the motion specific part was concerned.

    That's not what I've been told by people who have used them, there are situations that they don't really like. Usually a full motion sim is
    only used by by people with a reasonable degree of training.

    I can see that they'd be expensive to maintain though.

    Sylvia.


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  • From David Lesher@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Oct 15 03:35:05 2023

    Does it have MCAS so I too can crash it?

    "Flying Blind" (ISBN 9780593082515) mentioned that most of the
    {obviously warned ahead of time} Boeing pilots still crashed the
    simulator.

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  • From keithr0@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Oct 16 10:13:58 2023
    On 15/10/2023 2:35 am, David Lesher wrote:
    Does it have MCAS so I too can crash it?

    "Flying Blind" (ISBN 9780593082515) mentioned that most of the
    {obviously warned ahead of time} Boeing pilots still crashed the
    simulator.

    It's a -800 not a Max.

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  • From David Lesher@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Oct 18 10:30:29 2023
    keithr0 <user@account.invalid> writes:

    On 15/10/2023 2:35 am, David Lesher wrote:
    Does it have MCAS so I too can crash it?

    "Flying Blind" (ISBN 9780593082515) mentioned that most of the
    {obviously warned ahead of time} Boeing pilots still crashed the
    simulator.

    It's a -800 not a Max.

    Thanks. I'd assumed so but...

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