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Within the commercial world Boeing's are currently trying to introduce a 15% levy on everyone to do with anything with Boeing simulators!
Which is actually quite cheap and extremely reasonable. The Data that Airbus provided to CAE for the A380 was considerably more than 15%.
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough. Mr Boeing intends to introduce this levy on existing devices already in the field, nothing to do with data packs.
If you do 3rd party training on, buy a simulated spare part, update including non Boeing updates, in fact just about any activity on an existing Boeing simulator irrespective of age will attract this 15% levy
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A civvy airliner simulator is quite cheap as the "simulation" doesn't do anything. The only thing being simulated is the aircraft and its systems.
Interesting statement. The art of today's simulation IMHO is the integration of the 'aircraft' into the non aircraft environment. Atmosphere, motion, visual, C/L, sound etc..
Today the airframe manufacturers tend to supply the simulator manufacturers with the aircraft systems software object code as part of the simulator data pack. The simulator manufacturers have no control over this anymore. Certainly the A380 and B787 have gone this way.