anyone like playing flight simulator?

[94touring]

I've been stuck in the box for two days and ready to play with minis again.

[Davisio]

I'm ready for you to "play with Mini's again". Does that count? ;)

[94touring]

It does count.   Dean is probably ready too.

[MtyMous]

Awesome. That's a pretty fun sim room. Looks like the last one is still in flight. Looks like  US Airways. What airframe are you practicing on? I've only ever "flown" a C-130, T-1, and T-37 in the sim. But it was a lot of fun.

[Davisio]

The closest I ever got to a proper flight simulator was working in Fortran.
I can't really count Chuck Yeager's AFS. That just wouldn't be right.

[94touring]

Yeah this is the airways training center in Charlotte.  In that pic there is a dash 8, airbus, and crj 200 that were active.   The 757 was beside me and not in motion.   I'm on the other crj sim.  Almost took a short video of the one sim that was doing something major as it was all over the place.  Wish I could say it is fun, but really it's one day and four hours of doing a bunch of things you never or rarely do to standards, and a second day and four hours of  line oriented flights with a few mishaps and emergency or two thrown in.  Fail anything and it's bad on many levels.  Plus there is a lot of questions in the oral part of the testing.   Basically two 8 hour long days of agony.  The good news is I'm done with that for another year.

[MtyMous]

Yeah. I'm sure it's more work than play for you. For me, I got to do a couple flights, landings, maneuvers, and that was it. Just the fun stuff. I wasn't trying to get flight sim hours or certifications.

[94touring]

Yeah all work and no play makes me a dull boy lol.  I basically start hitting the books for this event a few weeks in advance.   There is another test prior to this that went with last weeks ground school.