Thread: Cross it off the Bucket List....Got to fly a 737 & 757 Yesterday....kinda lol

So my wife's friend is an aerospace engineer who runs the full motion simulators for Continental. He told me he'd ever call me if a spot opened up but it's rare that they do so I could come take a tour and FLY!

Last night got the call and spent the entire evening flying Jets! I don't have a pilots license. I've flown my buddies Cessna for about 30 seconds mid-air and that is it.

This was hands down the most realistic, insane, badass, indescribable experience of my life. I got HD video of it but haven't uploaded yet. Here are a couple crappy shots from the iphone camera.

By the end of the night I took off in Honolulu, flew around the island, lined up to land with zero auto pilot and put it down perfect. The guy who got us in told me how impressed he was with how good I was. Guess all those flight simulator video games as a kid paid off haha.

These were "D" simulators which means the are as REAL as it gets. The FAA allows pilots to clock hours in them just as if they were in the real planes and they can even go straight from simulator to passenger full plane with zero test flights. So real, so cool, if anyone ever gets the chance you've gotta do it. Once in a lifetime.



Lined up on runway 27 in Houston. This was in the 757. The 737 was brand new and had insane projectors with the most lifelike features imaginable.

Too cool!

That's really badass.

What an awesome experience.

What I failed to mention is he had me and my best friend run through the whole drill on the 757 and got us taking off and landing in good conditions. Then he switched us over to night time which was hard as hell but dooable. Then he said "how confident are you". I said "let's do this". He switched me over to landing in Denver in a fuggin Blizzard!!! I crashed it! I crashed it so hard that I threw the instructor to the back of the plane (he wasnt buckled in) and he couldnt hit the abort button. The thing was literally shaking us so incredibly violently, images of us doing cartwheels all over the screen and honestly felt like I was dying. I closed my eyes, let go and almost screamed like a little girl.

wow that is sick, I would love to do this

Originally Posted by BogeyBoy82

What I failed to mention is he had me and my best friend run through the whole drill on the 757 and got us taking off and landing in good conditions. Then he switched us over to night time which was hard as hell but dooable. Then he said "how confident are you". I said "let's do this". He switched me over to landing in Denver in a fuggin Blizzard!!! I crashed it! I crashed it so hard that I threw the instructor to the back of the plane (he wasnt buckled in) and he couldnt hit the abort button. The thing was literally shaking us so incredibly violently, images of us doing cartwheels all over the screen and honestly felt like I was dying. I closed my eyes, let go and almost screamed like a little girl.

wow that sounds really intense

HAHA Holy shit, seriously one of the coolest things I've ever seen. That is ridiculous!

Originally Posted by BogeyBoy82

What I failed to mention is he had me and my best friend run through the whole drill on the 757 and got us taking off and landing in good conditions. Then he switched us over to night time which was hard as hell but dooable. Then he said "how confident are you". I said "let's do this". He switched me over to landing in Denver in a fuggin Blizzard!!! I crashed it! I crashed it so hard that I threw the instructor to the back of the plane (he wasnt buckled in) and he couldnt hit the abort button. The thing was literally shaking us so incredibly violently, images of us doing cartwheels all over the screen and honestly felt like I was dying. I closed my eyes, let go and almost screamed like a little girl.

damn that sounds awesome!

Originally Posted by BogeyBoy82

What I failed to mention is he had me and my best friend run through the whole drill on the 757 and got us taking off and landing in good conditions. Then he switched us over to night time which was hard as hell but dooable. Then he said "how confident are you". I said "let's do this". He switched me over to landing in Denver in a fuggin Blizzard!!! I crashed it! I crashed it so hard that I threw the instructor to the back of the plane (he wasnt buckled in) and he couldnt hit the abort button. The thing was literally shaking us so incredibly violently, images of us doing cartwheels all over the screen and honestly felt like I was dying. I closed my eyes, let go and almost screamed like a little girl.

Ahahahahahahahahaha!

Man that's sounds amazing, minus the beating. Such a cool experience!