Monday, June 23, 2008

Flight Simulator on 'roids

I spent this morning playing with our (meaning the FAA's) Beech 310 flight simulator. I'm a real pilot so this was all pretty familiar, and quite realistic.

Out front, there are 3 Dell 24" LCD panels. Inside is a whole Beech 310 panel...the real thing. There's what seems to be a 19" LCD providing the cockpit glass (HSI, etc). It takes 3 PCs to run it. The software is Microsoft Flight Simulator with terrain maps of our home airport area which is ACY. I've flown in and out of ACY more times than I can count and flying around the area in his contraption is surreal.

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