If you happen to live near Phoenix, Arizona, have a spare US$10,000 or so kicking around, and have always fancied your own true-to-life commercial flight simulator, today is your lucky day. With just over a week to go on the auction, you can bid on a used flight simulator for a Bombardier CRJ200 regional jet airliner.
The CRJ200 jet was produced between 1991 and 2006, first being introduced in 1992 by Lufthansa. It’s a twin-engine design, with about 50 seats for passengers. With a length of more than 26 meters, 12,500 km (41000ft) ceiling, 785 km/h (487mph) cruising speed and a range of around 3,000 km (1864 mi) (depending on the configuration), it offers plenty of opportunities for the aspiring (hobbyist) pilot.
The auction stands at the time of writing at $4,400 offered and lasts until Monday, January the 28th. Local pick-up is expected, but the FAA-certified simulator comes complete with all of the manuals and the guarantee that it was 100% working before it was disassembled to ready it for auction. Just make sure that you have somewhere to put it before putting in that bid, and you could be the owner of a rig that would leave some of the best we’ve seen so far behind in the dust.
…or for $3500 make pilot licence in Czech Republic and for what’s left rent a plane for true fun.
If you can get the full suite of PPL/Multi/Instrument/CPL/ATP/CRJ-200 Type Rating for US $3500 there, every trainee pilot in the planet, including the military (and me) will show up within the week. Commercial flight schools charge nearly six figures for the first four on that list and the rest are a matter of flight hours, often at unpaid rates, and add-on training.
$6216/50h (fuel+training included) + $400 (aeroclub fee) –> PPL, looks like prices went up from past 10 years, still a better investment.
Got any addresses for me on that Chech PPL’s? Many thanks
Good lord that looks heavy… Judging by the size of the beams for the motion platform it looks like it weighs almost as much as the real jet!
It”s a Flight Training Device (FTD) not a Full Flight Simulator (FFS) on a moving platform, but it seems to have a real collimated display. Its point is not not have the best fidelity (a FFS hour is similar to a flight hour in a logbook) but to train the student with cockpit systems. Seems to be a nice path for a startup pilot academy!
I think this is the best one:
https://a320.jimdo.com/
(in german only)
Imagine playing Star Citizen on that!
12,500 km ceiling? Rocket ship?
Well, that altitude is only obtainable with the “Special Altitude Package” option from Bombardier…
“the guarantee that it was 100% working before it was disassembled to ready it for auction”
Not much of a “guarantee.”
“It was running when I parked it.”
(actually, it stopped running at that point, so I consider it “parked”)
Will it be grounded before it passes inspection?
Yeah, especially if they disassembled it with a chainsaw.
There seems to be some confusion with the commas and dots: 41000ft are 12,5km (or 12.5km in US writing form) and 3000km (or write it 3.000km) are the 1864miles. Although in flying AFAIK normally nautical miles (about 1,8km) are used. It would best, to stay consistemtly with US or European use of commas and dots as 1000 separator and decimal dot/comma.
I work of ffs systems as an engineer for the A330 and A350. That sim is a steal at that price. They normally go for double digits millions.
Agreed ! might bid on it myself.
The FAA certs on it might be in question after dis-assembly/reassembly though. Uncharted territory, maybe the FSDO and manufacturer rep may need to inspect/test/recertify the device(after the new owner re-assembles it).
I’m used to Flight Safety’s level D sims (full motion platform), since I recert annually for my Citation / Learjet type ratings. Those are the multi-million $$ machines on hydraulic struts moving a pod around,need a *VERY* big room with huge power requirements.
For those unfamiliar, an initial type rating (say 3 weeks of training), is ‘about’ $30k… recerts run about $10k for a week or so of class/sim time. Your employer typically pays the bill. Heaven help you if you fail the checkride with the DE !
I’m sure my wife wouldn’t have a problem if I bought this. Think of how much fun I could have with it. I’d hardly miss her.
B^)
Maybe she’s the type of woman who will sit right next to you in it.
She’d probably enjoy it, but I think we both could come up with a good number of better ways to spend $10k :-)
With this sort of thing (like boats, swimming pools and airplanes), it’s far better to have a friend who has one.
B^)
(I know, my brother has a boat…)
Think of how much you will save on vacation expenses traveling by sim. It will pay for itself in a few years.
Another year, another 9-11.
No thanks… that particular plane has stranded me in ANA, LAX, BUR, PHX, DEN, and various other airports for “maintenance” issues that I’d rather not see one in any form again.
If it’s from bombardier it will be years before you get it.
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