What would be the most you would pay for a 10 min "ride"?
Just to be clear, there was no mention of Texas A&M charging anyone to fly the simulator. Quite the opposite, they seemed genuinely eager to have as many visitors experience taking the controls as possible, regardless if you are an engineering student, sixth grader or older than the simulator itself. In its static set-up at first, Texas A&M said the simulator will run reentry and landing approaches. Once motion is restored, it will fly ascent profiles as well.
There's nothing stopping them from running any scenario, with or without motion. We ran ascents without motion all the time. We even ran orbit sims, though usually just for checkout purposes since the MB lacks an aft flight deck (the instructors can flip all the switches from the instructor station, and even bring up simulated views from the aft windows, even though there are no aft visuals installed).
Maybe I missed it, but what happens to the instructor station "parts?" Are those going with the MB?
Quote from: Jorge on 12/29/2011 08:21 pmThere's nothing stopping them from running any scenario, with or without motion. We ran ascents without motion all the time. We even ran orbit sims, though usually just for checkout purposes since the MB lacks an aft flight deck (the instructors can flip all the switches from the instructor station, and even bring up simulated views from the aft windows, even though there are no aft visuals installed).Maybe I missed it, but what happens to the instructor station "parts?" Are those going with the MB?
Thanks for the video clip, great see the use of the motion to give the crew the feeling of the thrust tailing off before booster sep. I guess if we watched this for longer by the time we got up to 3Gs they would be back vertical, then fully horizontal as we went through Cut off.I suspect they will have to work with a commercial partner for any public flights. No matter what they say now, to run this for he long term will eat money like no tomorrow, for example when a GPC dies etc... How do you fix this?
I hope that the space shuttle simulator is open to the general public. I have seen a video here of a guy landing it. Not sure how I would do. If anyone has more info on it please let me know.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpFmR5kve8g
Sign me up!!!