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January 13th, 2008, 01:13
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: @ home and bored
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|  Full motion sims Is there any Full motion sims where you can go and pay to just fly it? preferbably boeing/airbus? Not a class or school. I know theres one in houston b737.com but that is like a class? I just want to experience it. is there anyone close to houston?
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January 13th, 2008, 01:20
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Akron, OH
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 | Re: Full motion sims how much money do you have? The price of an hour in a full motion simulator could very well get you a high performance or tailwheel rating in a real airplane... |
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January 13th, 2008, 01:22
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007
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| Re: Full motion sims What is wrong with the continental sim? I don't think there is any company after 9/11 that will let you just pay to play around with a sim, but I could be wrong.
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January 13th, 2008, 01:46
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jul 2003
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| Re: Full motion sims Ducky - United used to have a thing where you could do an hour or two in their sims in Denver. Having had their own planes used on 9/11 I doubt they still do it but you could search for it. |
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January 13th, 2008, 02:08
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| Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: @ home and bored
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| Re: Full motion sims oh. well i tried to search and the only thing close was b737.com I guess after 9/11, the airlines started to pull it off? My guess.
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January 13th, 2008, 02:14
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| Re: Full motion sims Quote:
One of the recent ALPA magazines had a picture of a retired line pilot turned sim instructor receiving an award for reporting the suspicious training interests of some simulator renters in to the FAA or FBI. I did a just-for-fun sim session in one of them. It was kind of eerie to sit in that B-757 simulator because an Al Qaeda guy could have sat in that same one too. If not that one then it was the one next to it in the same bay. | |
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January 13th, 2008, 02:22
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ithaca, NY
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| Re: Full motion sims That Saab 340 simulator at Flight Safety in Houston is $525/hour. That is for a SAAB!! Imagine what it is for an EMB-170/190 considering the demand right now. Full motion sims suck. You will hate them.
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January 13th, 2008, 02:25
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| Old Skool Join Date: Jul 2003
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| Re: Full motion sims Quote:
I remember seeing that United one in the 90s where you could get someone a gift certificate in it for about an hour and I think that was in the $300 range for a Boeing. | |
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January 13th, 2008, 02:32
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Houston, TX
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| Re: Full motion sims I was deadheading on AA last month and there was an ad in their Skymall for some sort of flight experience thing in the sim. I tried to find it on their website but didn't see it there. You might want to call skymall and ask about it for a start. I doubt there is really any instruction going on so it would be what you're looking for. |
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January 13th, 2008, 03:18
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| Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: @ home and bored
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| Re: Full motion sims oh wow saab expensive! 
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January 13th, 2008, 10:00
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| Re: Full motion sims Quote:
BORN FROM JETS!
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January 13th, 2008, 10:41
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: CFI / CFII in PA
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| Re: Full motion sims you might google the guy who built a 737 sim in his garage - full panel with all the bells and whistles |
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January 13th, 2008, 10:54
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Pennsylvania
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| Re: Full motion sims Quote:
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January 13th, 2008, 10:55
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Atlanta, Ga
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| Re: Full motion sims CRJ sim at flight safety Atlanta is about $600 per hour I believe.
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January 13th, 2008, 11:11
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| Old Skool Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: OH or is it MX??
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| Re: Full motion sims ALTEON used to do it for $200/hr (just last year). That was at the now closed Long Beach facility. The Man! (MPenguin) set me up  for the 717 while I was out there. Some M&G he has gotten them for FREE to attendees! |
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January 13th, 2008, 11:36
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: El Forko Grande
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| Re: Full motion sims Full motion sims rock. I'm in my third currently. CJ3 sim in ICT was $1200 an hour. Definitely not cheap. |
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January 13th, 2008, 11:53
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Left Seat
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| Re: Full motion sims Mike will have costing details, but a sim price really depends on the demand. Good luck finding a CRJ or 170 sim around right now. But I bet there are a whole bunch of 737-300/400 sims sitting unused. We used to interview guys in an old US Air 737-300 because our CRJ sim was in constant use, and nobody was using the 737s. Honestly though, if you have the money to spend, and you already have some sort of rating, go out and do some upset training or get tailwheel certified. Sims aren't really all they are cracked up to be. |
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January 13th, 2008, 13:20
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2005 Location: at work
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 | Re: Full motion sims The only im trying to figure out is why anyone would want to go play in an extremely expensive sim and get nothing out of it! Theyre not that fun, they feel kinda cool the first time you fly it, but after that its not so great. If you wanna play in the sim, sign up for a type rating at Flight safety or Simuflite.
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January 13th, 2008, 13:32
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January 13th, 2008, 14:33
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| Old Skool Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Pennsylvania
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| Re: Full motion sims Quote:
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January 13th, 2008, 14:45
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: lower canada
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| Re: Full motion sims Quote:
everyone who says they suck and ask why would you do it, I assume are pro pilots. I hate them to, but I could see why a student pilot would want to get in one. Remember back when you were one, a level D sim, we thought was so cool. if you want to do, do it. I was getting so burnt out from instructing, and then Mpenguin set up a M&G at alteon LB. I went, got to get in an MD-11 sim and shoot an approach and land. It reminded me of what I was working for. I am glad i did it. So if you're not short on cash, and really want to mess around in the sim, more power to you.
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January 13th, 2008, 16:11
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| Old Skool Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ithaca, NY
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| Re: Full motion sims Very true. I was a bit bitter (?) in my above post. They are quite fun. Walking down the steps to one the day of a check....not too thrilling.
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January 13th, 2008, 16:39
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| Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: @ home and bored
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| Re: Full motion sims oh pssh. True you will hate them if been tested. But when i was searching for some youtube vids about full sims, There is this store that offers sim rides; I mean AIRBUS/BOEING sims to play around paying a price dedicated to sim thrillers. But i don't remember. I was in a 737NG @ Alaska Airlines once and I was thrilled by the power once I throttled it up and feeling how realistic it is...
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January 14th, 2008, 01:49
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Ramstein Air Base, Germany; LH 747-400 SIM
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| Re: Full motion sims Come to Germany - I'll get you in one. |
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January 14th, 2008, 02:13
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Boca Raton, FL
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   | Re: Full motion sims I might be going to ATL for delta's Level D 767 sim... the instructor I know said they are like 5,000 an hour (I can't believe it still, I think he was exaggerating) and another 1,000 for the instructor if anyone wanted to rent it I was going to get this internship with spirit, but my buddy got it instead (because he didn't have to do an interview with the mean base manager unlike me lol) and he actually hated it and left. anyhoo... he got on the airbus sim... what a lucky bastid
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