Ever wondered what an AA 757 sim looks like at the AA academy?

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I got a chance to fly a 707 sim at the AA center back in 1997.

Very nice facility!
 
Yup, even the 757 cabin trainer is a motion sim. It's really cool, it shakes & tilts on 2 axis's and has a smoke generator.
 
I was in a DC-9 cabin trainer during new hire school. Man, that things pretty scary!

Of course not scarier than doing the water evac training in a 8 foot pool (I'm a weak swimmer).
 
I had the box in that attitude a few times last week at recurrent. Its funny how the tilting of the box really gives the feel of acceleration / deceleration of the aircraft.
 
i've actually spent about 1.5 flying that very sim from the right seat before. that was before i went and did laps in the pattern in the 777 sim that was out for mx (the right side projector was busted so the picture out the right windows was kind of yellow and fuzzy). worth staying up till 3am to do
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i wish the fella that helped me out was a CFI - in the middle of my PPL logbook entries would be some B757 and B777 training time
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Ever wondered what an AA 757 sim looks like at the AA academy?

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Yeah...it looks very very expensive.
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I took my checkride in one of those yesterday. The check airman said I flew a great ride, though he made me do my V1 cut twice. I think the first one was legal but sloppy on the directional control, and we had time to kill in the sim, so I got to do it again. The second time (with some prompting from my sim instructor who was in the left seat), I got more rudder in and it went better.

The profile was normal takeoff, FMC route mods, departure stall, a normal ILS, two non-precision approaches, V1 cut (engine failure on takeoff) and a single engine ILS, hand flown to minimums. The last one is the hardest cause you always have a crosswind and the weather is 2400 rvr. Thank gawd for flight directors. I don't know why something that seems so easy in a 172 is so hard in the jet....must be the difference is between 140 knot approaches (single engine) and 80 knots. Also, a 172 seems pretty stable compared to these big sims. They look cool and all but they are HARD to hand fly. Maybe it's just me but I'm always overcontrolling like crazy and making life harder than it needs to be. I think given another 10 sim rides, I'd feel better about it but the philosophy is to kick you out the door with the minimum time, as long as you meet the standard. More than that just costs the company extra money.

I remember from my 727 training 10 years ago that the real plane was much easier to fly than the sim...and a lot more fun cause it doesn't catch on fire as much....
 
Sims ARE pretty hard to fly. I think the more experience you have in a particular type of aircraft, they're even HARDER to fly!

I've learned a lot of tricks and mysterious nuances on how to fly the MD-88, but those same techniques don't work in the sim. So I usually have to mentally remind myself that I'm in the simulator and not in the airplane. Plus, I've got to tell myself not to get all verklempt when the simulator reacts strangely.

Ahh, Simisms!
 
..........talk amongst yourselves. Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island--discuss.
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Been there once for "Fleet Service Clerk" (Ramp rat) orientation, they put you in a DC-10 cabin simulator then take you on a tour of the facility, cool way to have orientation! How much would it cost to put one in my apartment?
 
My good friends dad is an American Captain, and says that the sims cost roughly the same as the plane would cost itself. I too got to tour the facility, very exciting just to be in there, it feels kind of top secret in a way. Of course I loved them all, but the 777 sim was by far the coolest to sit in, very nice and cozy. I am only 17 but I dream of being there one day for training.
 
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