Me flying a full motion sim at Oshkosh

[Geofa 108]

Ok-I showed up at Oshkosh 2009-I met Jim from Flight One and his great exhibit-who told me Ron from Eaglesoft wanted to meet up. Called Ron-met him-great guy-next thing I knew he had arranged this 1/2 hour ride in this great full motion sim for me. It was very real...I want one...Thanks Ron for arranging such a great experience!

[ryanbatc 13,010]

Sweet, I was just thinking about to make one of those yesterday at work (slow day lol)That G1000 setup, who makes that?

[Geofa 108]

Sweet, I was just thinking about to make one of those yesterday at work (slow day lol)That G1000 setup, who makes that?

The Mindstar unit was being used-and the creator was watching...

[Guest dougwells]

It is a very cool idea. I flew it at Oshkosh 2008. Redbird uses Microsoft ESP and they did get it FAA approved. So those that say FSX will never be FAA approved....not so. The FAA appears to care as much about the hardware interface as to the software. No mouse flying is allowed as far as I understand.Redbird is actually a pretty compelling unit for a flight school. You can swap out the instrument panel quickly and easily to convert from a G1000 unit to a traditional steam gauge. Only need to undo about 16 screws to swap the panel. Pretty well thought out. I was very impressed. My one suggestion to the founder was they need a better emulator for the Garmin 430. Flight schools need to teach on a button push for button push exact replica of the real unit. As far as I know, RealityXP is the only one that has that. Outside of that, the major hurdle for Redbird with flightschools has to be the question of Microsoft's continued support of ESP.I'm with you Geof, I want one in my living room as well!

[glassman2005 0]

Microsoft will actually be supporting ESP for 5 more years. In the computer world, that's an eternity. By then, either the economic conditions will change, or management at Microsoft will change, or someone else will pick up the product. Either way, I think ESP/FSX is going to end up like a Star Trek character, nobody stays dead for long!Also, for those interested in seeing the Mindstar unit in action, you can also look at:http://www.youtube.com/MindstarAviation