Trident simulator experience - do you have any?

[hifive11]

I am trying to find a relatively cheap way to get some jet sim experience and I understand that there are Trident sims at Biggin Hill and High Wycombe.

Have any of you tried them and if so did you find the time and money spent helpful or no use. I know the Trident is old but did it help with general handling skills and scanning?

I am a recently qualified fATPL and need to keep some flying skills going!!!

[Sensible]

Take a look at this thread:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116970&highlight=Trident+sim

[G SXTY]

The Trident sim at Biggin is great fun. The graphics are a bit 1970s (unsurprisingly) but the all round experience is excellent.

It’s a bit of a handful to fly – the controls are quite heavy, and you must retrim for the slightest power / airspeed / configuration change. And none of your girly electric trim switches, you have to turn that great big wheel yourself. As long as you’ve got 3 hands it’s a doddle.:)

I’d imagine a couple of hours spent in there would be very useful indeed.

[FlyingForFun]

We organised a trip to this sim in the Private Flying forum two years ago (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51039&highlight=trident). You can read our thoughts on it here (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54735&highlight=trident).

Although some of us (me included) were pure VFR flyers, we all thought it was great, and I have no doubt it would be very useful.

FFF
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