Originally Posted by
Epsomdog
Not sure you should be referring to an AMM in this case, surely there's a simulator manual available? Given the length of control run on a sim is small by comparison to the real thing then I suspect you have something seriously amiss, if you have several cm of play.
First of all, we use the AMM because we can compare it towards the limitations on the real aircraft. The sim is from 1998, so yes, the load units/cables etc are worn, but as long as they are within limits its no point in overhauling the system wich takes serius amount of downtime. The Simulator Manual really doesnt give us any good indication. This is a subjective snag from a pilot, and our quality test guide will provide us with a automatic test that is testing the control collum deflection of the simulated ailerons/spoilers. But again, this is a subjective snag, so to close it with a decent explenation, refering to the AMM would have been great.