Before my first takeoff in the Full Motion Simulator for the upcoming Cirrus SF50 jet Piotr Dlugiewicz, CEO of Aero Poznan, gives me a briefing on the necessary avionics settings for a brief VFR flight around Manhattan
You mentioned writing a book? What's it about? Great video, sims are fun! I got to have time in the sims at United Airlines training center in denver, talk about fun!
I have written a couple of aviation books, but where did I mention it? The SF50 sim was great fun, I wish I could afford the real thing, but I guess I have to stick to my SR22 :-)
The start up sequence entering in the destination first seems very backwards...then you have to enter in the take off runway (for the safe taxi system to be able to work)...and then manually enter the TO distance. As a part 121 airline instructor, when we programmed the FMS, we always entered in the flight plan in sequence starting from TO, the runway, SID, the en-route way points and then the STAR and destination. For training we always entered in the landing runway but on descent, we got the ATIS and let the students update the flight plan with a new STAR and landing runway. The start up sequence here seems out of sequence and like we're jumping around. The student is entering FMS data but doesn't complete it...and instead, jumps to entering the TO distance. The whole thing feels uncomfortable, out of sequence and like it could have been bettered designed flow-wise. Also, no checklists were being used. That is bad, especially for a jet. For being done in 2016, I'm surprised this instructor doesn't seem to have the cockpit training together yet. This is a very poor video (from a training quality stand point) showing a pilot how to get the cockpit ready for TO.
Sorry, no - I'll have to stick with my SR22, the SF50 is too expensive for my private only flying. I flew the Sim as an aviation journalist, see my page: www.airwork.biz
