Originally Posted by
tim1966
As a birthday treat recently I got to fly an A330 simulator, the seat on that was like expensive car seat. It was motorised and slid back and to the side allowing you to step in by stepping over the front part of the centre console sitting down then gliding the seat back into position.
An incredible experience by the way, even though the views were obviously artificial it felt absolutetly like the real thing. (A good job I suppose as I lives depend on them for pilot training
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Did you bring a logbook? If it's a Level D simulator you can log it as flight time
As other people have said, it depends on the aircraft. In some, the seat can slide out far enough for quite easy access, others may require a little more flight deck aerobatics. Quite a few airplanes have handles on the ceiling for this reason