The above is prob99 an advertisement.
Well, not quite a home sim, as it belongs to a swiss aviation club, but I’ve been involved in restoring a 737NG sim to flight readiness. Slow process but we are getting there.
Mooney_Driver wrote:
I’ve been involved in restoring a 737NG sim to flight readiness
WoW, are you getting your B737NG TR on it?
Ibra wrote:
WoW, are you getting your B737NG TR on it?
No, it is a purely amateur device, running Prepare3D and ProSim 737.
It will be run in a club environment for simmers and GA pilots who want to try their hands on a “real” sim. Also for online flying and some of that. Non-Profit use only and membership required.
This sim was donated to us by a gentlemen recently deceased (he put it in his will that it should be used by a non-profit organisation) and we took on the challenge. It had been dormant for some time and had to be disassembled and transported to new facilities and now re-assembled. Process has taken some months so far. We hope it will get going by the end of the year.
We will get the instructors trained however involving a 737NG TRI. So we will be getting a concise version of the type rating but nothing we can use in real life.
Nevertheless, I flew an A320 sim with a similar set up last week (after more than 6 years of not coming close to an A320 flight deck) and noticed I still know how to do it. Was great fun. I’ve never been near a 737 (well, I flew a 737-100 sim once 30 years ago) and it will be interesting learning about this classic airplane. I am told we can configure it as a long range BBJ so that might be interesting.
Once it is running, if any of you would like to have a go PM me. It is located near ZRH airport.
Once it is running, if any of you would like to have a go PM me. It is located near ZRH airport.
I will surely take the offer if pop-ing around
You can use it for BIR training. :)
Fly310 wrote:
You can use it for BIR training. :)
No. It can not be used for any training which goes down in a logbook towards a rating or license.
Mooney_Driver wrote:
No.
Yes!
It can not be used for any training which goes down in a logbook towards a rating or license.
Indeed, but the point is that the BIR is fully competence-based. You don’t need to have a single minute of actual training in the logbook before the checkride.
Airborne_Again wrote:
Indeed, but the point is that the BIR is fully competence-based. You don’t need to have a single minute of actual training in the logbook before the checkride.
Hmm. In that case, I wonder what is the least effort and cost. That B737 simulator above (which is amazing btw), or actually flying some hours of instrument in a real aircraft. I would believe the purpose of having an IR rating is to actually fly IR, no? 
A hobby is a hobby, there is no right or wrong. I recently got myself some new stick, rudder and throttle and installed DCS again (and IL-2 of course). I can’t for the life of me find a reason to install a civilian flight sim, when I can do real flying instead. Nevertheless, I use the Yak-52 in DCS to practice aerobatics That and TACAN approaches in an F-5 in the soup is rather fun All that super complex weapon stuff I am literally clueless about The F-5 isn’t that complex though, guns and Sidewinders.
