Curtis Olson wrote: >On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:30 PM, John Denker <j...@av8n.com> wrote: > > > >>On 01/17/2009 05:16 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: >> >> >> >>>http://www.atcflightsim.com/index.html >>> >>> >>If I may be permitted to answer in kind: >> >>http://www.atcflightsim.com/pricing.html >> >> > > >You are expecting a complete cockpit enclosure, instruments, radio hardware, >instructor station software, plush seat, and FAA certification for free? >The FAA doesn't certify a software application (well unless you are looking >at a PCATD and even there, it's not just the software they are looking at.) >For Level 3 FTD certification and above they certify a complete simulator >and at least half of their certification tests involve control loading in >some way or another. > Displays and switches are nice, but control loading is the 800 lb gorilla in the room. With good to excellent control loading pilots will "forgive" a lot in the display/appearance arena.
You can get by cheaply on some research projects ( ~100k) for a reasonable cockpit setup, but moving up the FTD scale from 1 to 7 and then over to a Class a to d system is an exponential cost curve. Not for the faint-of-heart... Jack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
