The new 777-2 uses IBM PC's with 32 bit processors. The older 767 sims use IBM F50's with 16bit processors. The determining factor for host a sim is not power, but timing. Processes are updated by frames per second, 60 frames per second. First instruments are updated, then motion and finally visual. This was you can not perceive a lag between input from the control and response time of the hardware.

The instructor in the sim makes GND and ATC calls. The crew responds to the instructor as if he is ATC or gnd control. They can make simulate attendant calls. They simulate the full flight, but they do not make passenger info calls.


Check the list I posted. There are a number of tricky airports. I like DCA, because its surrounded by water and has the monuments. You can pick any from the list. Just look up rwy length.

I'm not sure on shortest rwy, but find one from the list and look it up. Jackson Hole with ice and snow is fun.

Thanks for all the info Kevin. I was in the 737 sim a couple months ago and had a blast. Too bad the instructor tried to get me to crash into Turner field - I just wanted to fly!!!

Is this still the case or are here sims up in Eagan?

Is it not exactly the same as flying into/out of Puente Genil Airport which is on the above list?

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The pilots are great. They have worked for me for 3 million miles.

I advise you not to get involved in any public discussion. Given that you have worked for DL for so long, you may wish to continue until you retire. Let management answer any questions. You will not be a winner if you become involved.

Canarsie or ATLDLFF posted photos of the sim, but I can't find them. What was the URL?

TIA,

Are these the ones you're looking for??

I noticed IND is not listed. Is this an oversight or is there not a program due to the new airport?

Thread back from the dead!

I'm Chris and I work alongside the OP. Sorry to report that due to the facility consolidation from MSP to ATL, the L-1011 and MD-11 simulators have been sold and as such are in the process of being either dismantled entirely or moved to another location.

The L-1011 simulator was one of - if not THE - only TriStar device still certified. Up until 2008 or so, this trainer was used almost on a daily basis by the now-defunct ATA. Pretty impressive that this device was maintained for as long as it was, considering Delta retired the L-1011 over a decade ago.

The two MD-11 simulators have a similar story to tell. We had two MD-11 simulators - one originally acquired by Delta when the type was introduced and another shortly thereafter. The second simulator was actually originally built for British Caledonian. You airline history buffs will no doubt remember that "BCal" actually had an order on the books with McDonald Douglas for the MD-11. This order was quickly canceled by British Airways following the acquisition of BCal by BA in the 1990s. The simulator needed a new home and eventually made its way to Atlanta. World Airways relied on Delta almost exclusively for their three-holer training but that too has come to an end, at least with regards to the MD-11s. They will continue to use one of the simulators, albeit after it has been relocated to another facility by the purchaser.

As I said, all of these recent changes are due to the facility consolidation currently underway; 12 months from now, the space vacated by these simulators will be filled with those from MSP (e.g. A320s, A330s, and additional 757s).

Thanks for flying Delta,
Chris

Are you therefore denying the unpublished and unconfirmed, but highly believable, rumor that the MD-11 simulator was hijacked by Canarsie and is currently in constant use in his Marietta living room?

I can not confirm nor deny said rumor... :-)

Presumably also the 747 sims will be moving to ATL as well.

Do you know the logic behind moving the sims from MSP to ATL? I know that after the merger DL spent some money to refurbish/reconfigure Building N in MSP (where the sims were located), and moving sims, transplanting the sim instructors, etc. is not a cheap or fast proposition. Was there really that much savings in pulling out of MSP like that? It's not like Building N was the old NW HQ or any other building; all they did there was sim training. Wouldn't there also be some benefit in having two training locations in case there are backlogs (esp. on a common fleet type like the 757s)?

Just curious. With the announcement earlier this year that DL was moving all the sims and much of the maintenance from MSP to ATL, well after the merger was pretty much complete, makes you wonder about the whole "committed to MSP" thing they had always been talking about.

That would be why @DeltaAssist never responded to my tweet:
Hey @deltaassist, you have a L-1011 sim in Atlanta but nobody flies those anymore. Can I try it some time?

...and thank you for that!Please allow me to correct you to a speculation that would be far more plausible:

So...since it seems that many of our fellow FTers have been in the sims in ATL. How does one go about having that privilage?