Originally Posted by
tdracer
The flight deck differences between the NG and the MAX are minor enough that a new s/w load should be adequate to allow an NG simulator to be used as a MAX simulator.
Such multiple use simulators are already common - they simply select whatever aircraft version is wanted when booting up the simulator.
Do you know that for a fact regarding the MAX vs..NG? If that were the case one has to wonder why Boeing had a stand alone MAX sim built by TRU for their MIA training center? Ditto for ET and SWA. I agree that multi use sims do exist, and again in the case of Boeing, there is a 747-8 and 747-400 sim in MIA, but it take a significant amount of time to convert. Not simply a matter of throwing a switch. More like a day or more as I recall.