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Here's an article on the local website about Bay Flight Aviation's new $140,000 full motion flight training simulator, called the Redbird.


Article and Video here

I do like the energy and concept idea , the better they want it , the better we go , the more real it gets , maybe VLC and a bitta RealNZ

Im not a fan. Personally I think they should scrap the full motion (because really it will suck) and spend the money on setting up a proper cockpit with full wrap around (using projectors) visuals. At this level I believe that full motion is absolutely unnecessary and even at ZFT simulator level I would consider it a luxury rather than a necessity. The money would be much better spent making it a better simulator than making a crappy simulator move around.

My Brother Rick was very very impressed , well not sure , invited him with daughter thanks to Alister C .... with the Flight Experience and words .. non .. just a WOW

For $140,000 smakaroo's id expect a bit more than a small multiple monitors and a bog standard FSX scenery.

I was thinking $140,000 is very cheap actually Even the flight experience sims were at least twice that and they were fixed base. So for $140,000 with movement, seems like over half of that will be wasted on the movement. I'm with Morrisman too, movement is overrated lol

Following Alister on this one .. think you need try Flight Experience .... was bloody mind blowing Experience , and to turn my younger brother Rick around was the flight Al organized at FE

The big question is: can you loop it? If not, I don't want to know!

Seriously though, this just looks like a marketing gimmick.

Is there a simulator anywhere in the world that simulates the G forces? Acceleration and deceleration is a gimmick but if I can roll a simulator into a max rate and black out, then flip the plane over and find all the money left on the floor then I MIGHT change my mind about full motion

I think you would be pushing the limits there unless you you get a backdoor key to the UASF/NASA centifuge .

It doesn't look all that different from my home simulator - except mine doesn't move!! In my home sim, sitting in front of 3x 22" widescreen monitors still provides an amazing amount of realism - and I prefer the crispness of LCD's over the projectors used in commercial simulators (I've also been on the FE simulator). I wish there was a little less talking and more video of it actually moving - if you're going to make a report on a fantastic new MOVING simulator then show us how it MOVES for cripes sake!! LOL

mfraser wrote:

QUOTE (mfraser @ May 17 2011,8:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It doesn't look all that different from my home simulator - except mine doesn't move!! In my home sim, sitting in front of 3x 22" widescreen monitors still provides an amazing amount of realism - and I prefer the crispness of LCD's over the projectors used in commercial simulators (I've also been on the FE simulator). I wish there was a little less talking and more video of it actually moving - if you're going to make a report on a fantastic new MOVING simulator then show us how it MOVES for cripes sake!! LOL

Yep, I agree, they should have shown it operating, and also id does look rather like a home simulator. I just hope that I do not end up spending $140 000 on mine, although a full motion base would be nice. From memory, I think that you can buy the full motion bases for about 5000 euros, so a good FSX set up and a full motion base would be well under $140 000. I am still happy with my (non full motion) FSX set up.

smooth landings.