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Editor's Notes

• #2: First simulator, 1909
• #3: Hundreds of thousands of WWII pilots trained in the Link trainer
• #4: Bombing simulator WWII
• #5: Gunnery simulator WWII
• #6: Microsoft Flight Simulator 1
• #7: Went thru 10 versions over the next 25 yrs
• #8: Graphics steadily improving
• #9: At first the audience was pilots
• #10: Mid 90s started allowing users to create their own aircraft and immersive worlds
• #11: The series sold over 7 million copies
• #12: Huge online communities flying virtual airlines with complex org structures,
• #13: Full ATC environment staffed by real people
• #14: A sad day for aviation when it closed down
• #15: Product was purchased by Lockheed Martin and now sold as Prepar3d
• #16: Not available to consumers any more, but it’s the software used by the likes of Redbird
• #17: Quality of graphics is becoming photorealistic
• #18: Software is still available for $50… easy to build education programs around like Operation Aviation at EAA, easy to create missions that kids can fly
• #19: Turning to our world, warbirds, here’s some nostalgia for me, the arcade game ”1942” was very cool when I was 13
• #20: Microsoft did teo versions of Combat Flight Simulator
• #21: IGN’s IL-2 Sturmovik was a breakthrough game in the early 2000s, built a large and passionate user base. Very atmospheric and immersive
• #22: World of Warplanes is a spin-off of World of Tanks which has over 75 MILLION players worldwide. WoW launched late 2013. A sponsorship opportunity for CAF from wargaming.net
• #23: Turning to experiences for attractions, there are rides like this
• #24: They carry 6 to 20 passengers. People enjoy them. They can be 3D / 4D. They are a ride (no control) but work for families. The hydraulic platforms are more maintenance heavy than electric motor simulators.
• #25: You can scale them up to small theater size.
• #26: Or even large theater size like “Soarin’” at Disney… a full IMAX experience
• #27: MaxFlight simulators are not rides. You can fly it and loop & roll in a full 360 degrees. Was nicely profitable at EAA, we easily beat our business plan and it was fully paid for after 18 months. Still earning 12 years later.
• #28: Oculus Rift is the hot thing in virtiual reality. Facebook just bought the company for $2 billion. What’s different? (people have been trying this for 15-20 years) It’s highly fluid and immersive. They have cracked the code of how the brain interprets motion. People don’t get sick. A safe prediction, this is a big deal
• #29: The Harry Potter ride I was talking about. This is what you sit in, an “enchanted schoolbench”. I couldn’t believe the experience it was so lifelike in terms of the sensation of flying., the G-Forces and fluid motion.
• #30: This is what I was actually sitting on, a giant industrial robot arm.
• #31: It places you inside this half dome on which the images are projected.
• #32: Redbird have revolutionized simulation for the flight training market. Close to 1000 devices installed at flight schools
• #33: The FMX is their most popular unit. They radically reduced the price of a full motion simulator and bought it within the reach of small flight schools.
• #34: The crosswind simulator is very cool. I t is a small jump to make this into a carrier landing sim.
• #35: When Steve and I talked to them at Sun n Fun they were talking about the potential to make a tandem cockpit simulator (i.e. warbirds) on their new MX2 platform
• #36: Here’s Steve flying the bird at the Perot museum. It is beautifully simple. You spread your arms and fly. Uses Xbox Kinect technology, very engaging.