I do not know how far John Dunkley has progressed recently
http://users.senet.com.au/~dunkleyj/
I had considered plagarising his set up, but using a cockpit from a wrecked two seater with white contact on the canopy to block the view immediately upwards (ie restrict the view to the outside screens.)Use three large concave screens attached to the motion platform to give 180 degree view around the nose
But Emilis is correct, a full on motion sim as above will probably use several PCs to drive graphics / platform motion / flight simulation, plus the cost of the hydraulic set up.
I was looking more at :
http://www.sfspc.de/
http://www.sailorsofthesky.com/
http://www.silentwings.no/home/
Particularly the capability of "Silent Wings Viewer" to take real-time data from an aircraft ( beyond simple IGC logs ) & replay it in the sim to analyse all facets of a flight including control inputs.
SFS is the only sim that I have first hand experience with, and currently the only level which I can personally afford. It has served it's purpose, has been of enormous assistance and great fun to boot.
A sim like that to which Emilis & Anthony refer would be a fantastic shopping mall crowd pleaser & a truly great GFA PR machine. ( pretty good instructional rig too... ) The only problem being that it probably would be out of reach for many clubs, the former are here now and affordable, the latter for most of us just remains deeply desirable.
Cheers
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