Ian thats awesome - how do you find the control stick on the A320 compared to the flight yoke of the cessna and lear? personally i would hate the idea of having to fly with my left hand - not as accurate. Saying that, Airbus are totally fly by wire so any flying can be done via the autopilot and when you come to the approach, i guess all you do is type in the ILS frequency of the designates runway, turn on the flight director, auto throttles and AP1 switched in the autopilot panel, sit back, relax and fall asleep as the onboard computer follows the approach, lowers the gear, puts the nose gear on the centre line, applies reverse thrust and hits the brakes!
im scared about all this - i think pilots should be the ones to fly the exciting bits. Its getting to seem like the levels of fun are dropping!!
I ask if its rediffusion because my dad was contracting for the company in 1992 (when i lived in the states for 6 months) He was the one that programmed the instructor stations on such simulators and if you ever use one, you'll probly be using his software! think he did 757's, 737's etc etc. I know that british midland use one - it was on TV the other day - dad recognised it from 12 years ago!
