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Old 25th Apr 2002, 16:44
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calypso
 
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It has been a lot of hard work but great fun all the same. I really enjoyed the fixbase sim, going trough all the faults and seeing it all work.

Coming from a cloth and tube taildragger the 737 seems a fantastic bit of kit. The hard part about getting ahead of the a/c is that there is so much redundancy and self testing going on. By the time you realize that something has gone wrong some system or another has already kicked in and tried to sort the problem out, so you have to get several steps ahead. Cramming all those systems and how they interact with each other in two weeks it seems at times that you cannot absorb anymore. Every night I get home and go to bed exhausted only to wake up with a grin in the morning ready to go again. Studying some of the systems all I could think was ' wow, does it really do that?, brilliant!'

They say the sim part is the hardest we will let you know, bring it on!

Cal
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