As a birthday present I’ve been given a one-hour session in a full motion 747-200 simulator.
By nature I am very curious about things, but aviation isn’t one of my special interests (yet!)
I am wondering what sort of preparation I can do to make the most of the experience (books? computer games?). I feel that if I show up unprepared I’ll just be overwhelmed and won’t be able to take away much, which would be a shame.
I have about two weeks to go.
Any ideas?
By: Deano - 29th October 2010 at 21:49
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Where are you doing this flight if you don’t mind me asking?
There isn’t really much you can do to be honest, the hour will pass so quickly you won’t believe it. I had a go in a BA 747-400 simulator at their training centre in Cranebank Heathrow about 10 years ago. This was before I did any flying at all. Now I fly for a living and I have to say that sim experience still lives with me today.
The thing is the instructor on the day will sort you out, the only thing you might want to do is to familiarise yourself with the cockpit layout. You can use google for this, or another good way is to go onto Youtube and search for 747-200 videos on there. There’s a plethora of information to be gleaned from the internet and google is your best friend.
You could also do as Doogerie said and buy a Flight Sim for your computer. I would recommend Flight Simulator 2004 though, because it isn’t as processor hungry as FSX. Also there is a fantastic freeware program out there for download which may help you round the cockpit, it was a payware program but the developers released it onto the freeware “market”. It’s called the Ready For Pushback 747-200, it can be downloaded here
All the best
Dean
By: Doogerie - 29th October 2010 at 11:55
Get hold of FSX it really is rather and will give you somthing to do after your flight in the real sim alos go geta good qualty stick or Yoke 747’s ues a yoke in real life as do alot of the smaller passinger and privot aircraft alo som rudder pedals would be a nice addation one more thing have fun and welome to the hobby you will ahve grate fun Simming.:D
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October 12, 2010 at 2:35 pm