![]() ![]() ![]() This design approach offers an excellent price/performance ratio to pilots desiring to improve their IFR skills with an FAA-approved flight simulator.įigure 2: ATC-710 Personal Flight Simulator Instrument Panel One flight simulator being readied and re-designed by the volunteers Mort and Art, is anATC-710These simulators use analog and hybrid computer techniques to drive indicators which are replicas of the flight instrumentation found in a typical IFR-equipped light aircraft. Mort Hans and Arthur Glazar (Arthur wrote the article in EDN on the Analog Computer) welcomed me and my “photographer” wife Loretta to the Cradle with the intention of discussing the simulators at the museum and how they have been modified to work best for museum visitors.įig 1: Steve Taranovich, Mort Hans and Arthur Glazar discuss the tour of the simulators at the museum There are retired electronics and mechanical engineers as well as aircraft engineers and FAA certified flight instructors that volunteer their time to make this an exciting place for the young and the old. The engineers that volunteer their time at the museum to restore and modify electronic designs are the “heart” of the story here. The simulators are only part of this story. So many aircraft, space vehicles and actual flight simulators that you can use on appointed days! Some are good graphics simulators, but there are a few are real motion simulators and one is a full-motion simulator that you fly! I’m like a “kid in a candy store” when I’m there. There’s lots of work to be done and they could use your help. These are just some of the amazing events happening here! Stop by and visit the museum and if you live on Long Island and are retired, please do consider volunteering to help in the restoration and design of some of these excellent projects for display or even to be a technical tour guide there.
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