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Thanks Rick, yes it is interesting, let me know if you think any of the deductions from the data are rubbish or thin. I'd rather face the music now than later!!

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Gents, attached results from survey data, interesting stuff.

Cheers, Ben

amateur-flight-sim-survey.pdf

amateur-flight-sim-survey.pdf

amateur-flight-sim-survey.pdf

A photo from the weekend taken by my daughter, another dad stepped into the IOS straight away to watch his daughter fly and got in the way of the photo. I was too busy to take any myself.

Thanks all, I built a low cost sim for our local club its reconfigurable to many types. We edited the instrument panel and model texture to look the same as our club Tecnam P2002 trainer. We also tweaked the flight model to match the performance numbers. It has an instructor station at the back and cockpit cameras to monitor the students gaze, throttle and stick. The cockpit is air-conditioned and slides open to allow easy ingress and all the computing power is tucked away under the pilots seat. It also has a second ship for the instructor to fly "follow me" and voice comms between the student and instructor. Last weekend the local scouts air activity Saturday where 72 Hunter Valley scouts flew in a C172 and the our simulator. My 11yr old daughter drove the IOS while I walked them through an intro flight while standing next to the cockpit. All up we delivered 80 sim rides (including intro to flight controls, take off, climb, coordinated turns and a few attempts at landing at Williamtown) each ride taking about 5mins with a 1 min turn around to adjust the cockpit fit (scouts come in a wide range of sizes). Fun stuff!

I'll post the survey results to this thread when I get enough replies, interesting results todate, thanks for the support! Cheers, Ben

Hi, I'm writing a thesis about sims for amateur pilots. If you use a sim I'd really appreciate your input, it's a super easy 10 question (multi guess) survey here: Flight Simulation for Australian Amateur Aviators Survey

Cheers, Ben