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Message started by JayG on Feb 21st, 2011 at 5:11pm

Title: Re: Lou - STORIES
Post by LOU on Mar 16th, 2021 at 3:28pm
I've been playing around with the CS 757-300.  Although I never flew the -300 it flies pretty much as does the -200.  I spent some time looking around the cockpit and the level of detail is fantastic.  Small things like the worn look of the speed brake handle from being touched by the greasy paws of the pilots, or the coffee cup stains on the center console right where it says NO LIQUIDS!  ;D

Speaking of coffee cups, the coffee cup in the pilots side cup holder can disappear with a click.  Pretty cool!  I'm sure you all know you can move your view around by clicking the right button on the mouse and dragging left, right, up or down and then zoom in or out with the mouse wheel.

Of course I remember my first CS plane the 727.  The detail of the worn parts in the cockpit was exactly as I remember it in the real cockpit. 

When I was a simulator instructor in the early 70's as well as line pilot and FAA check airman I would have loved to have this level of reality in our multi-million dollar simulators. I watched the visuals in these high-end simulators go from fuzzy TV scenery which was generated with a wall map which was 25 feet high by over a 100 feet long where a vidicon camera moved along the wall on a crane to produce an image of a single runway that was sent to a TV monitor in the cockpit window of the simulator. Then years later to computer generated sets of light dots on the simulator cockpit windows which was not much better and even when I retired in 2005, the level of scenery was nothing compared to what I can see in P3D or other platforms.

Fellow Sim pilots, enjoy the ride!
Stay safe  ;)
Lou

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