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B-52G simulator cockpit on display at Castle Air Museum in Atwater, California.
Simulators like these were used at the former Castle AFB and other B-52 bases to build and maintain proficiency at a fraction of the cost (and risk) inherent in actual flight operations.
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Castle Air Museum:
Pima Air and Space Museum
*New pics as more screens have been lit
SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM FIXED BASE GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION SIMULATOR
One of only three advanced space shuttle orbiter simulators used to train NASA astronauts.
The fixed-base Guidance and Navigation Simulator (GNS) represents one of only three simulators once used to train astronauts for the Space Shuttle Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Along with the motion-base Shuttle Mission Simulator (SMS) and the Fixed-Base Simulator (FBS), these complex machines were used to create a series of various mission tasks ranging from full mission rehearsals down to recreating specific exercises such as atmosphere entry or launching satellites.
Predating the SMS and FBS, the GNS was built in the late 1970s and operational by 1982. Initially it was primarily used only to test and verify guidance and navigation software that would later be installed in the SMS, FBS, and orbiters. As such it originally did not have visual computer-generated windscreen displays and much of the interior was unfinished, though it did contain the same complex array of cockpit instrumentation, controls, and computer displays operated by five distinct general-purpose computers (GPC) present in actual orbiters.
Following the Challenger accident investigation, the Rogers Commission suggested that NASA invest in additional crew training simulators to provide increased and expanded training and to handle the higher frequency of missions. However, the cost of providing an additional SMS or FBS proved too expensive, so NASA elected to upgrade the GNS into a full fixed-base crew simulator that was essentially identical to the FBS.
The upgraded GNS flight deck was enhanced to provide a more realistic appearance and a full visual computer-generated imagery system for the six forward facing windscreens. Computer-generated imagery (CGI) was a new science in the early 1980s and all the simulators used a first-generation CGI system, rudimentary by today's standards.
For 20 years the upgraded GNS was used interchangeably with the FBS and it is likely that every post-Challenger crew spent time in the GNS practicing launch, ascent, orbit, re-entry, and landing procedures.
With the end of the Space Shuttle Program, the GNS was retired in 2011. In late 2020 the GNS was used on the set of a science fiction movie due to be released in late 2021 [not sure why they’re being cryptic, its Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall]. The filmmakers modified the simulator's external appearance, making the GNS more closely resemble the outer surface of an actual orbiter, along with internal cabin modifications. Following movie shooting, the GNS flight deck was donated to the Pima Air & Space Museum in early 2021.
Full-size Bus Simulator showcased at the SMRT Bus Carnival and Career Fair, held at e2i on 12 and 13 September 2014.
FX Simulator (X2) on the new Grand Pier in Weston Super Mare. Rode it with a friend while on a trip.
For people who've never rode one, its a 2-seater capsule, there are 8 tracks its £2.50 for one person £5 for 2 people, a camera is inside which views the one or the two people inside.
The instructions are that you insert coins into a console outside the coaster while a screen shows the tracks available when its your turn you climb in and you plug in your safety belts then you close the door (NOTE the door it's not automatic) there are 8 yellow flashing buttons each one relates to a track on the coasters screen, during the ride there are Red flashing buttons which are for emergency use to stop the ride.
Rides last approximatly 5 minutes depending on the track selected.
UPDATE: The price for this ride has gone down from £2.50 to £2 for one person and £5 to £4 for 2 people.
One thing the pier might have changed but admission to actually get on the pier is £1, which is a bit cheeky I have to say as it was free.
Most of the arcade is £1 a machine, Another arcade machine I played on was Outrun 2.
(The arcade version of the Playstation 2 game Outrun 2006: Coast to Coast)
Able Seaman Bosuns Mate Tkac shows Seamen Burdett and Carr the controls on the bridge simulator at HMAS Watson.
Junior officers in the Royal Australian Navy will learn to pilot the next generation of warships in the upgraded $10m training facility at HMAS Watson, which was opened by the Commander Australian Fleet Rear Admiral Steve Gilmore, AM, CSC, RAN on 25 March 2011.
The new high-tech simulator, one of the most advanced in the world, uses computerised virtual reality software to simulate a working warship's bridge, complete with a 240-degree view of a computer generated 2D scene through the bridge windows.
The latest group of Junior Warfare Application Course officers completed their training on the new bridge simulator on 24 March 2011.
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Photographer: ABIS Alan Lancaster
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