"Sam" wrote in message
om...
While hanging out at Sun-n-fun this weekend, I came across the FAA
training area and saw that they had a full motion simulator available
for simulated spatial disorientation.

Sam,

Was this a simulator that simply spins around? If I remember correctly, it
doesn't do anything spectacular except spin smoothly around and once you're
enclosed inside, the spinning feeling disappears and just feels like light
turbulence.

I rode one that spun around at a Wings Weekend and it was definitely a
learning experience. Except that in the simulator in which I rode, ATC asks
you to ident and the ident button is very low and to the left. Once you take
your head out of the "plane" in which it is spinning (kind of like moving a
spinning gyroscope) your inner ear freaks out and everything starts
spinning. A great learning experience.

-Trent
PP-ASEL