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British Columbia Air Museum.
On this flight simulator the ATC cadet would have his first flying lessons.
When the hood was shut the instruments were your only reference to straight and level. Lose control and the simulator would turn round and round until you were thoroughly dizzy and the instructor would eventually end your ordeal by switching it off from outside.
An interior view of the simulator shows a railway engineering student trying his hand at the throttle of a virtual train of 97 cars and two SD60s ascending the 1% grade at South Fork, KY on the CNO&TP Second District (a.k.a. "The Rathole"), north of King's Mountain.
A standard control stand and WABCO brake system is to his left. Two smaller screens show the track profile (note the grade), train forces and performance graphs. The projection screen shows the exteroir view, and the colored lights to the right repeat the aspect of approaching signals when they are within viewing distance (the quality of the laser disc technology makes the signals difficult to see on-screen.)
Coincidentally, the simulator was designed and built at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1992.
A great aussie invention www.virtualsailing.com.au - this sailing simulator was a lot of fun and had a great "feel" to it. It's target audience is the coaching of young dingy sailors into racing.