Tango foxtrot zulu this is speedbird 1 requesting IFR at heathrow we are going to butter the bread on 27L.
Yeah ok ,sorry...
Ever wanted to fly a 737? Well this is probably about as close as you can get without spending a small fortune on becoming a commercial pilot. You can experience 30 minute in a brand new British Airways 737 simulator in Putney for £45 or for 60 minutes at £75 and up to three guests can join you in the cockpit too.
21 comments
daskapital
24 Jul 17#1
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afroylnt
24 Jul 17#2
Would'nt go for the BA version due to the long delays & 'system crashes'..
daskapital to afroylnt
24 Jul 17#3
Might loose your baggage too !!
Actually It is not owned by BA, the cockpit was from a real BA 737, and some BA pilots train using it even though they have their own sims apparently they are very booked up.
mtuk1 to daskapital
4 Aug 17#20
*lose. Loose is a totally different word.
afroylnt
24 Jul 17#4
With the amount of cost cutting ba is apparently doing could be they will start using PC sims to train pilots; seem determined to turn it into a larger version of Ryan Air - only use as a last resort...
tomharris79656
24 Jul 17#5
bojangles
24 Jul 17#6
They probably already do. Its a cheap way to get in some flight hours & learn instruments. However the BA model is a motion unit. This cheap deal is not. You may as well just install flight simulator on your pc
daskapital to bojangles
24 Jul 17#7
true. it does vibrate but it is not on a motion platform no. still a great price, and it really is used by real pilots they also say its the only FAA approved one in the UK although why we would care about that in the UK I'm not quite sure.... I'd say its quite a lot better than a PC flight sim though, for one thing, it's a real cockpit with real instruments and buttons / controls.
Cakeboy79
24 Jul 17#8
On the basis that BA don't actually fly the 737, I highly doubt that BA train their pilots on it.
granitesilver to Cakeboy79
24 Jul 17#9
True cause all the Boeing 737's are in storage !!
daskapital to Cakeboy79
24 Jul 17#10
They did. Until 2015. I was tipped off to this by an actual BA pilot. Pilots train on all kinds of aircraft right ? You don't need to drive a ferrari to learn how to drive right? If i'm wrong, does it make much difference to the deal ?
Cakeboy79 to daskapital
24 Jul 17#11
The certainly did, but the last one retired at the end of September 2015. If you want to be really picky, then there are 737s flying in BA colours for Comair in South Africa, but they're not owned by BA.
Pilots get licensed for different aircraft types called a type rating, it's not like a driving licence where that allows you to drive anything assuming you passed the original test in a manual car. There's some commonality between the Airbus types and the Boeing types, but not all of them and if an Airbus pilot wants to fly Boeings then you're looking at around 6 weeks or so of intensive training.
And no, it makes bugger all difference to the deal, but this won't be a proper full motion sim that the airlines use for training - they're a lot pricier than this and almost always full of airline staff - they run almost 24 hours a day, but for the enthusiast who wants a play in a big PC sim this is a good price
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Tango foxtrot zulu this is speedbird 1 requesting IFR at heathrow we are going to butter the bread on 27L.
Yeah ok ,sorry...
Ever wanted to fly a 737? Well this is probably about as close as you can get without spending a small fortune on becoming a commercial pilot. You can experience 30 minute in a brand new British Airways 737 simulator in Putney for £45 or for 60 minutes at £75 and up to three guests can join you in the cockpit too.
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Actually It is not owned by BA, the cockpit was from a real BA 737, and some BA pilots train using it even though they have their own sims apparently they are very booked up.
However the BA model is a motion unit. This cheap deal is not. You may as well just install flight simulator on your pc
Pilots train on all kinds of aircraft right ? You don't need to drive a ferrari to learn how to drive right?
If i'm wrong, does it make much difference to the deal ?
Pilots get licensed for different aircraft types called a type rating, it's not like a driving licence where that allows you to drive anything assuming you passed the original test in a manual car. There's some commonality between the Airbus types and the Boeing types, but not all of them and if an Airbus pilot wants to fly Boeings then you're looking at around 6 weeks or so of intensive training.
And no, it makes bugger all difference to the deal, but this won't be a proper full motion sim that the airlines use for training - they're a lot pricier than this and almost always full of airline staff - they run almost 24 hours a day, but for the enthusiast who wants a play in a big PC sim this is a good price
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Or you could go the Saitek Pro Flight route (plastic) if you dont want to fly airliners... or just get 2x old monitors & build your own glass cockpit.
i'm playing FS2 at the moment, i bet this would be great for it.