Classic British Flight Sim

Mike,you will love it.Years ago When working for BT I had a long involvement with the telecoms section of British Midland Airways.Unbeknown to me,SWMBO contacted their telecoms manager to sound out the possibility of a session for me on one their 737 simulators.At that time they were in a new building at Coleville in Leicestershire,a building I knew well.It took a while before a gap in their schedule became available and on evening she asked me what I was doing on a particular evening the following week."Nothing" I replied.
"We'll you are now!" she said and told me what she'd arranged as a surprise for our 25th anniversary.
The following day I was back at BMA and now all the staff that I used to deal with who had known about this for some weeks
could now let out their secret!
I had a whole evening on a 737-400 full motion simulator with them,al for free!
Make sure you let us all know how you get on. EricT

What a lovely experience

Shows how well you were respected

Or the lengths Julie will go to, to get a night of peace

Ben wrote

Or the lengths Julie will go to, to get a night of peace

She's just seen this and says that you have can have an extra piece of chocolate pud on Thursday! EricT

You will certainly enjoy it! The modern sims are amazing; most of the time I spend in them I am working fairly hard, but every now and then I get a chance to play... That is great fun. The last challenge I did was brakes of to brakes on again flying a visual circuit (of sorts)... Can't remember the exact time, but it was less than a minute. In a modern sim like the 330 I fly you can get totally absorbed and it is certainly true you come out after 4 hours very tired.

I really enjoyed taking folks into the VC10 sim... I certainly remember Dave B and Dave M enjoying it! Funnily enough I found the article I wrote the other day :-)

Tonks

My wife gave me a one hour flight in the 737 simulator at Folifoot, Yorkshire for my 60th.

A minute per year.

almost like getting a rebate or something.

Tomliner wrote:Ben wrote

Or the lengths Julie will go to, to get a night of peace

She's just seen this and says that you have can have an extra piece of chocolate pud on Thursday! EricT

Thursday is Ben's fasting day.

Eric - could you warn Julie to keep his dinner to 300 calories and a glass of water, please. He'll thank you for it

Ian

It's a glandular issue!

Well that's what I suspect anyway.....