My Squadron has a Piper PA38 Tomahawk cockpit which has been converted in to a flight sim. I have toyed with the idea of doing some sort of challenge fir the cadets and 184’s event has given me some inspiration.
In Q1 of 2013 we are going to do 6 or 12 hours of Scottish Island hopping while attempting to land , in one piece, at as many Scottish airports as we can….
Abz
What other famous RAF raids could be replicated on a flight Sim? Dambusters?
perhaps you could recreate this?
http://www.chasingthemorningsun.com/home_page.htm
I went to a talk by Manuel last week about it, and it was very interesting
Now thats an idea…
[quote=“vambo” post=1834]perhaps you could recreate this?
http://www.chasingthemorningsun.com/home_page.htm
I went to a talk by Manuel last week about it, and it was very interesting[/quote]
That would be a great long term project.
Now thats an idea…[/quote]
Who can remember the major tv programme which did a complete real-time simulation of the dam attack raids, complete with a Lancaster fuselage mock-up and manned by modern-day RAF personnel from 617 Sqn? May have been 5 yrs ago, the nav had lots of pressure on him, as they were forced to use dead reckoning and astro-fix: yes, they even simulated the old instruments, including the searchlight cross-point bomb aiming system.
Where’s our ATC squadron that had that stunning Sentinel multi-aircrew simulation, posted here on ACC, with all the rearcrew NCA scopie positions and full flightdeck?
wilf_san
Wasn’t that Oz’s and it got mothballed following his disagreement???
Yeap - it was one of 115’s projects - and its an absolute travisty that it never got completed! Such amazing potential!
We’ve just about recovered from the weekend and I thought I’d share some of the social media stats with you.
5641 - Views of the fb page by 17th, 56 times normal. The views were from 20+ countries.
50% increase in followers/likes on both FB and Twitter
333 - Individual views of the live stream
Engagement wise the Sqn considers the project was a success, so far. We just need to do the press releases and edit the “Airport” Style documentary we’ve filmed.
Hopefully we didn’t annoy too many people by spamming their news feeds. Sorry if we did :cheer:
Not at all! Was loving the banter using both pers and squadron accounts (depending on what was being said!)
Would love to see some more of the information about the build, some pictures of the sim in general etc to get a better feel for how it looked, although I guess your filmed documentary should sort that out.
Just hope the cadet not able to find the runway because he was too busy talking about the number of McDonalds available in China has his face blanked out!!! 
Best tweet of the weekend “We are currently flying over the west coast of Mongolia”.
The tweeter obviously noticed what they’d done about an hour later and put a funny tweet to rectify the mistake.
[quote=“the fixer” post=1853]Best tweet of the weekend “We are currently flying over the west coast of Mongolia”.
The tweeter obviously noticed what they’d done about an hour later and put a funny tweet to rectify the mistake.[/quote]
Made me chuckle too!
Qualified A320 pilot willing to help in any future projects 
And it was a great project well done