Fancy a go in a real flight simulator?

[69 coupe]

bodhi808 said:

A friend of mine works for a company called alteon who run these sort of simulators and he took me and some friends along one evening for my birthday.
I can't say enough good things about the experience, it was absolutely fantastic.
From my point of view, i hadn't known what to expect, so was in awe when i saw the simulators in the bays and then to get inside and find a full working cockpit (even down to the oxygen masks whoops!) was staggering.
I'd highly recommend these to anyone, but would suggest doing a few press ups before you go, I hadn't realised how much you have to hang onto the controls to prevent plumetting into the ground when you've got it a bit wrong
Here's a couple of quick cam phone videos of our session if anyone is interested.

http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a3/bodhi808/?acti...

http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a3/bodhi808/?acti...

Looking at your second video, looks like your taking off from Runway 26 Innsbruck, if so I was peeing about on microsoft fsx today doing the same take-off using a b737, FSX has certainly come a long way.

Edited by 69 coupe on Friday 26th June 22:03

[bodhi808]

69 coupe said:

bodhi808 said:

A friend of mine works for a company called alteon who run these sort of simulators and he took me and some friends along one evening for my birthday.
I can't say enough good things about the experience, it was absolutely fantastic.
From my point of view, i hadn't known what to expect, so was in awe when i saw the simulators in the bays and then to get inside and find a full working cockpit (even down to the oxygen masks whoops!) was staggering.
I'd highly recommend these to anyone, but would suggest doing a few press ups before you go, I hadn't realised how much you have to hang onto the controls to prevent plumetting into the ground when you've got it a bit wrong
Here's a couple of quick cam phone videos of our session if anyone is interested.

http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a3/bodhi808/?acti...

http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a3/bodhi808/?acti...

Looking at your second video, looks like your taking off from Runway 26 Innsbruck, if so I was peeing about on microsoft fsx today doing the same take-off using a b737, FSX has certainly come a long way.

Edited by 69 coupe on Friday 26th June 22:03

Thats a spectacular level of observation/geekyness
It was indeed Innsbruck runway 26, as it provides plenty of interesting scenery and obsticles ...as my friend demonstrates in the first video with all his warnings! Very easy to get the landing wrong there too due to flying through the valleys. I havn't used FSX, but I think I'll try to look into it now
That take off was going perfectly till our friend at the control terminal turned on a 35knot crosswind half way down haha
Great fun though, hopefully going again next month too