Simviation Forum - Best 747 sim?

Jan 11^th, 2011 at 9:14pm

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I have an internet friend who was a 747 captain. He misses it. What is the best sim for him to get back into the left seat? Would he be mortally bored by the default sim? Says he was bored flyin' the real thing, so we have an uphill battle, here. Thanks.

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Reply #1 - Jan 12^th, 2011 at 8:11am

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Hate to go to payware right out of the blocks.... but it is the strong opinion of a lot of people that the PMDG Queen of the Skies 747 is about as good as it gets. Supposedly there were a lot of real world 747 people that got involved in the design. It is not a cheap add on.

For most it is a "spend a week reading the manuals before loading up the aircraft" type plane. For him.... he probably can just get in and fly. Supposedly is it is close to a type trainer, systems wise.

The "Ready for Pushback" former payware 747 is available in our files now as freeware. That too is supposed to be good..... but not up to the PMDG version.

Hope this helps.

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Reply #2 - Jan 12^th, 2011 at 9:08am

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I agree with the above comments.
The best one has to be the PMDG 747. This addon is now a legend in the history of FS9.
The former payware, now freeware "747 Ready For Pushback" concerns an older version of the 747 if I'm not mistaken. Might be interesting to look at, since it's free

The last alternative is freeware as well, it's the iFly 747, but I'm pretty sure it's far away from the level of the PMDG.

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Reply #3 - Jan 12^th, 2011 at 9:18am

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[quote author=JBaymore link=1294798471/1#1 date=1294837864]The "Ready for Pushback" former payware 747 is available in our files now as freeware. That too is supposed to be good..... but not up to the PMDG version.

................johnquote]

If you would be so kind, would you please provide a link to the "Ready for Pushback" model. I have searched the file library and come up short.

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Reply #4 - Jan 12^th, 2011 at 10:46am

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First link from google, searching "simviation ready for pushback".
http://www.simviation.com/fs2004jets211.htm

EDIT: and I confirm that the "Search" function in the SimV library doesn't return any results when searching for "ready for pushback" Undecided

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Reply #5 - Jan 12^th, 2011 at 12:36pm

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Daube wrote on Jan 12^th, 2011 at 10:46am:

First link from google, searching "simviation ready for pushback".
http://www.simviation.com/fs2004jets211.htm

EDIT: and I confirm that the "Search" function in the SimV library doesn't return any results when searching for "ready for pushback" Undecided

Thanks....a really appreciate your help!
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Reply #6 - Jan 12^th, 2011 at 12:58pm

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I asked him to check us out in an email I sent last night. He wrote back today to say that he has spent so much time in full-motion simulators that sitting in front of a computer would be rather anti-climactic. He says that if you take a check ride with an FAA inspector in a heavy jet type and pass, you can then add type-certs in the full-motion sim of that type. All you need do is three take-offs and landings to a full stop and you get the type. Crazy, huh? He says they throw failures at you until you want to puke. I forget right now how many hours he has in The Big One, but he flew it for twelve years. He is fascinating to talk with via email, and we have spoken over the phone. He's been there, done it, seen it, flown it, eaten it, drank it, hunted it, shot it and lived to tell about it. I wish my life was 1% of what his has been. Craziest thing: He has only one eye. I would have never thought you could fly an airplane weighing 800,000-some pounds with one eye...

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Reply #7 - Jan 12^th, 2011 at 3:30pm

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hhomebrewer wrote on Jan 12^th, 2011 at 12:58pm:

.... I would have never thought you could fly an airplane weighing 800,000-some pounds with one eye...

None of the armed forces would even accept me for flight school ...just because I wear glasses.

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Reply #8 - Jan 13^th, 2011 at 6:19am

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jgf wrote on Jan 12^th, 2011 at 12:58pm:

....None of the armed forces would even accept me for flight school ...just because I wear glasses....

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Reply #9 - Jan 18^th, 2011 at 3:48pm

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Ready for Pushback was on one of the pages that failed to convert into our new system.

Has now been done manually

http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=ready+for+pushback&x=15&y=12

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