Located a Local Flight Simulation Center in Triad of North Carolina

[Puma44]

!!!!!!

And the J-3 was $6/hour.

[Mister Fork]

And the J-3 was $6/hour.

Crikies. Up here, the cheapest is around $100/hr USD for a 152.

[scot12b]

What a ripoff  they are Playing DCS A10 module

[Vraciu]

Crikies. Up here, the cheapest is around $100/hr USD for a 152.

Good gawd...

When I was in multi the PA-44 Seminole was $144 an hour (instructor was extra).  I nicknamed it "Whistling Debt" (because they whistled when they flew over and cost a nickel a second to fly back then).    When I was holding short I would sit there and go, "Ka-ching!  Ka-ching!  Ka-ching!" until I got to fifty cents.  "That's a soda.   Ka-ching!  Ka-ching!"

Wound up doing my MEI and MEII somewhere else.  Local flying club.  They charged based on the tach for the right engine.  Guess which one we shut down all the time for single-engine work up high?  Yep.

 

[Mister Fork]

Wound up doing my MEI and MEII somewhere else.  Local flying club.  They charged based on the tach for the right engine.  Guess which one we shut down all the time for single-engine work up high?  Yep.

 

 




Me on my second landing. Earning my $100 an hour. Engine quit after I forgot that $100/hr didn't include fuel.

[1stpar3]

SWEET looking fishing boat! What kind of trolling motor was that on the bow?

[Vraciu]

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Me on my second landing. Earning my $100 an hour. Engine quit after I forgot that $100/hr didn't include fuel.
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LOL!  Epic.

That reminds me of another story from my younger days.   The Mexican smugglers would use 206s and the like to haul drugs in from Tamaulipas into the Valley.   There was one guy who had an engine failure and had to deadstick that sucker onto the northern part of South Padre Island.  So, rather than lose the airplane, they unloaded all the drugs then brought in a Maule or some such to recover the airplane.  They hitched a cable around the propeller hub of the 206 and pulled that sucker out of there like a C-47/CG-4 combo.   

[bustr]

In 1999 this company was trying to expand nation wide as a sports bar combat simulator chain. They opened a center in Redwood City near Stanford University in an IT park. My IT manager took our team there for a team building event to celebrate our Y2K work. After our HtH team combat sortie, he got pissed becasue my time playing AW since it's early days made my coworkers and him easy to shoot down. I wiped out his team while my team all augured into the canyons our fight started in. I was the only one from both teams still in the air at the end after I killed his team. So he called it foul and wanted me to give back the winners prizes. There was no rear view, only a directional indicator on a DAR display in the simmpit while the world and action was projected on a wall in front of the pit. I sprained my thumb trying to cycle through views out of habit that were not there with the none functional hat switch. Looks like they never expanded into WW2 fighters like was being used as a Marketing hook to bring in more customers back then.


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