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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Kabst,
No, I'm not QUITE that old!
But I did get involved in the old Link Trainer that the local ATC at Hove had. I think it was only 2 axes of freedom on the motion (pitch, roll) and it was so old and knackered that it was okay for the lads but a "hulking" 12-stoner like me only had to lean forward to "pitch down" or back to put the nose up!
I'll let you into the secret of the origin of the motion system - Ed Link's father made organs (the church variety) so naturally Ed used leather bellows and an air pump for the motion system. ("liberated" from his father's workshop? )
Certainly the first step to instrument rating for many a pilot and avoided some of the potential problems of taking beginners up and letting them have the controls in a real aircraft while a sheet was hung over the right side of the window
Fate is the Hunter - yeah, who hasn't read it whose interested in flying
(can you still get Dai Davies' "Handling the Big Jets"?)
No, I'm not QUITE that old!
But I did get involved in the old Link Trainer that the local ATC at Hove had. I think it was only 2 axes of freedom on the motion (pitch, roll) and it was so old and knackered that it was okay for the lads but a "hulking" 12-stoner like me only had to lean forward to "pitch down" or back to put the nose up!
I'll let you into the secret of the origin of the motion system - Ed Link's father made organs (the church variety) so naturally Ed used leather bellows and an air pump for the motion system. ("liberated" from his father's workshop?
)Certainly the first step to instrument rating for many a pilot and avoided some of the potential problems of taking beginners up and letting them have the controls in a real aircraft while a sheet was hung over the right side of the window
Fate is the Hunter - yeah, who hasn't read it whose interested in flying
(can you still get Dai Davies' "Handling the Big Jets"?)
ExSimGuy
You're quite right, of course, re freedom axes - two, not three. Very close with the motion system origin - it was pianolas, the piano roll machines, which were pneumatically powered via pedals and were successfully modified for the Link
You're quite right, of course, re freedom axes - two, not three
. Very close with the motion system origin - it was pianolas, the piano roll machines, which were pneumatically powered via pedals and were successfully modified for the Link
