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Flying the B-737-300 sim at ATOP
Just got home from spending the weekend in Houston at the Continental
Airlines Training Facility flying the Boeing 737-300 simulator. Full motion and landing certified. My wife bought me the ATOP weekend for a Christmas present and man what a blast! Had the greatest time. I would highly recommend the ATOP weekend to anyone. Wayne Phillips is great and the weekend flew by. I don't think I can ever go back to playing MS Flight Sim on a the 14 inch screen with a joystick. |
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In article , lardsoup wrote:
Just got home from spending the weekend in Houston at the Continental Airlines Training Facility flying the Boeing 737-300 simulator. Full motion and landing certified. My wife Did it in 2000, when it was at United Airlines in Denver. Excellent trip - well worth doing! BTW: The whole course is less money than just buying a standalone hour in a level D B737 sim. Excellent value for money. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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"lardsoup" wrote in message news Just got home from spending the weekend in Houston at the Continental Airlines Training Facility flying the Boeing 737-300 simulator. Full motion and landing certified. My wife bought me the ATOP weekend for a Christmas present and man what a blast! Had the greatest time. I would highly recommend the ATOP weekend to anyone. Wayne Phillips is great and the weekend flew by. I don't think I can ever go back to playing MS Flight Sim on a the 14 inch screen with a joystick. Any website for doing this? Always wanted too, sure beats the Hawk! |
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http://www.b737.com/
It's a _lot_ of fun. "Darkwing Duck (The Duck, The Myth, The Legend)" wrote in message ... "lardsoup" wrote in message news Just got home from spending the weekend in Houston at the Continental Airlines Training Facility flying the Boeing 737-300 simulator. Full motion and landing certified. My wife bought me the ATOP weekend for a Christmas present and man what a blast! Had the greatest time. I would highly recommend the ATOP weekend to anyone. Wayne Phillips is great and the weekend flew by. I don't think I can ever go back to playing MS Flight Sim on a the 14 inch screen with a joystick. Any website for doing this? Always wanted too, sure beats the Hawk! |
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So, how did you do? Did you crash? Did you get a V1 cut?
"lardsoup" wrote in message ... Just got home from spending the weekend in Houston at the Continental Airlines Training Facility flying the Boeing 737-300 simulator. Full motion and landing certified. My wife bought me the ATOP weekend for a Christmas present and man what a blast! Had the greatest time. I would highly recommend the ATOP weekend to anyone. Wayne Phillips is great and the weekend flew by. I don't think I can ever go back to playing MS Flight Sim on a the 14 inch screen with a joystick. |
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In article , Robert M. Gary
wrote: So, how did you do? Did you crash? Did you get a V1 cut? When I did it, none of our group crashed. Wayne, the instructor, had some great stories about crashes though :-) None of us were multi-rated at the time so he didn't give any of us a V1 cut, but we did lose engines. When it was my turn to fly, I had one catch fire not far short of V1. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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Dylan Smith wrote in message ...
In article , Robert M. Gary wrote: So, how did you do? Did you crash? Did you get a V1 cut? When I did it, none of our group crashed. Wayne, the instructor, had some great stories about crashes though :-) None of us were multi-rated at the time so he didn't give any of us a V1 cut, but we did lose engines. When it was my turn to fly, I had one catch fire not far short of V1. Sounds like an absolute gas! I guess I better start being good for Christmas. Bule skies John |
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How did I do? Well, I didn't crash. No V1 cut, but on the first take off,
just past 80kts and approaching V1 there was some sort of malfunction, fire or something, don't really remember, but I got a Master Caution light and some sort of warning horn. Figuring that can't be good I cut the throttles, deploy the speed brakes, stomp on the wheel brakes and come to a nice stop on the runway. Reset. Next we're cleared for departure again and my first officer says we're cleared to depart. I look out the wind screen and ask my FO to call ground and ask for taxi clearance to 28R. Apparently some people have just departed from the taxi way before. Reset. OK. Real departure (or simulated, depending on how you want look at it). Spool up, brake release, set take off thrust, 80kts, V1, rotate, V2, WE'RE FLYING the B-737. YEEEE HAAAA! Oh yea, positive rate, "Gear up please". 1000msl, lower the nose, speed up, raise the flaps, level at 3000msl, set speed to 230kts. Basically a short field takeoff procedure. So now I flying around and Wayne is playing ATC and giving me headings. The feelings and the visuals are FANTASTIC. You really feel like you're flying. Left turn to 090. Right turn to 360. Hey this isn't too hard - what the.... Number 1 hydraulics is out. OK, number 2 hydraulics picked up the slack. Damn, number 2 hydraulics gone. That Wayne!!! So now I flying the plane by muscle and cable. Talk about HEAVY control forces, but I'm doing a good job. Headings and altitude right on. OK, enough laughs for Wayne so my hydraulics come back on-line. Now for the approach. ILS 28RL at SFO. Localizer alive and now, in the back of my head, my IFR instructor's voice says, "Go get it". Now I'm flying a B-737 like a Warrior. Hard right bank. What's that warning now? Over bank? Did you know that if you bank a B-737 to 40 degrees and not pay attention to maintaining the right amount of back pressure you can lose 500 feet in altitude really fast? Well, you can. So now I nose up to get back to altitude and the glide slope comes alive. Gear down, set speed 146. But here comes my IFR instructor again, "Stay on the glide slope, no matter what". Little high, little low, little high, little low, flaps 15, flaps 30. OK, finally stabilized. Better later than never. 1000 feet, 500, 200, auto throttles off, 100, 50, reduce power, 30, arrest decent, 10, look to end of runway.....hold it....squeak. Yea baby. FO cleans up plane, take off thrust, rotate and off we go again. Now Wayne stops the sim at 1000 feet and resets it for the approach. "Capt. are you Instrument rated"? "Yes". "Well, we'll see for how long". That Wayne's a funny guy. Ceiling to 500msl and 1 mile visibility. Not too bad. He had the higher time CFI guys down to 200 and 1/2. "Ready"? Here we go. Now that I have the hang of it this approach goes better. Break out, "Don't level off - ride the glide slope down"!!! This time my IFR CFI's advice is welcome. (actually all of my IFR CFI's adivice has been good). Just a little right of center line and another smooth touch down. A couple of pictures and it's over. Now it's time to sit in the back of the sim and observe the other two guys. About 5 minutes later I get this feeling like I had after my first solo, where the excitement of the whole thing finally hits and I want to scream out a,"YYYYYYEEEEEEEE HHHAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I figure it might mess up the crew flying. More pictures with everyone and it's off to the hotel for beers. And some more beers. And some more beers. This Shoney beer is GOOD. It was a great experience. The other 6 pilots in the class were all nice. Wayne gave us all a nice picture of a B-737. And now I have a high altitude endorsement in the log book. Will come in handy when I finally save up enough money for that Malibu. "Attention passengers this is your flight attendant speaking.. We have a problem. The flight crew is incapacitated from the bad fish we served at dinner. Can anyone land a Boeing 737?" Hand goes up....... |
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"lardsoup" wrote in message
... How did I do? Well, I didn't crash. No V1 cut, but on the first take off, just past 80kts and approaching V1 there was some sort of malfunction, fire or something, don't really remember, but I got a Master Caution light and some sort of warning horn. Figuring that can't be good I cut the throttles, deploy the speed brakes, stomp on the wheel brakes and come to a nice stop on the runway. Reset. Snip Great, Great Write Up !! "Attention passengers this is your flight attendant speaking.. We have a problem. The flight crew is incapacitated from the bad fish we served at dinner. Can anyone land a Boeing 737?" Hand goes up....... "Surely, You Can't Be Serious...?" Jay Beckman Student Pilot - KCHD 7.4 Hrs ... Nowhere to go but up! |
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"Attention passengers this is your flight attendant speaking.. We have a problem. The flight crew is incapacitated from the bad fish we served at dinner. Can anyone land a Boeing 737?" Hand goes up....... "Surely, You Can't Be Serious...?" Oh........"Yes I am...but don't call me Shirley. But, that's not imporatant right now!" Hey... I landed the 777 simulator at the New York New York Hotel in Las Vegas last month. Does that count? (And it was only $2) Al Gilson 1964 Skyhawk Spokane, Wa. -- Al Gilson Spokane, WA USA 1970 VW Convertible 1964 Cessna Skyhawk |
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