Our Technology

The Hardware

Our simulator is as real as it gets without spending $15,000,000 or having to pay $1,500 an hour (or more!) to book one. It's a full-size, Boeing 737-800 series cockpit, where you'll not only need to know the basics of flying, but how to effectively use the key instruments in a variety of flight situations. It is being built for us in Europe by one of the leaders in high-end simulator cockpits and hardware for professionals, CockpitSonic.

And 737 Simulations will offer significant future enhancements to our equipment that none of our competitors do ... motion. Our equipment isn't going to be a lower-end, "fixed-base" simulator that lacks motion during flight. Our vendor is supplying a simulator that is constructured from metal and that can withstand the additional g-forces that our custom motion technology will put on it. Even 40cm of motion of pitch, yaw and roll while inside our cockpit will provide your senses with the extra cues they need to make better flight decisions. Our simulator fully immerses you in a simulated flight that provides a wide range of audio, visual and motion input to provide the ultimate in flight sim expereince.

CockpitSonic are able to provide 737 Simulations with the range experience and airline training quality we were looking for. The photographs on this page show the B737 simulator that CockpitSonic will be building for our facilities.

The Software

For the flight portion of our simulation, we will eventually rely on the only flight simulator approved by the FAA for flight training with approved hardware, X-Plane. Unlike that other popular computer simulator that uses table-based lookups to determine flight characteristics, X-Plane uses blade element theory that reads in the geometric shape of any aircraft and then figures out how that aircraft will fly. This involves breaking the aircraft down into many small elements and then finding the forces on each little element many times per second. These forces are then converted into accelerations which are then integrated to velocities and positions... of course, all of this technical theory is completely transparent to you... you just fly!

Weather is variable from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear, turbulence, and microbursts! X-Plane also has detailed failure-modeling, with 35 systems that can be failed manually or randomly, when you least expect it! You can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, and landing gear at any moment (if you want us to). Finally, X-Plane scenery is world-wide, with scenery for the entire planet Earth between -60 and +74 degrees latiude. Fly anywhere you want.

All this software runs on a custom set-up of multi-core computers that provide smooth frame rates, stunning visuals, and superb flight simulation.

Flight Training and Systems Courses

Prior to their first four flights our customers are given 30–45 minute sessions of flight training that covers basic topics through to more advanced topics and infromation for repeat flights. Don't worry if you've had no real flight experience, before your first flight you'll be given the information you need to make you flight an exciting one. You'll be flying like a pro before you know it. After three successful flights, the final session prior to your flightwill be a check ride where you will "earn your wings" and be able to skip further training and just fly for an hour. The various training topics are shown below.

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