Ok I'm a geek that works in IT. I never thought my two interests would ever meet. Through my work I met a young and probably disturbed man who on a visit to the sim room of an airline heard them discussing the dismantling of their old 747 sim. He immediately offered to take it off their hands and is now the proud owner of the sim. He's worked on it for a few years and has added new instruments, fully functioning FMC, instructors station etc. It's not full motion but he's adding feedback to the controls as we speak. It's quite a remarkable piece of kit.
Is this any use to me or other student pilots? I would think so but my concern is that it's a 747, there's a lot of throttle levers. I could use this for about 50 Euros an hour. Before anying jums down my throat I know I can't log the hours but to be hoest I wouldn't anyway.
Let me know what you think.