Manhattan's first FAA approved flight simulator now open

I toured an FAA approved sim in Manhattan, I think it's the only one in city. Located in shared work space at 99 Madison Ave @ East 29th. I know the pilot who set this facility up, Jobe Taylor. Jobe did this spare time out of love for aviation. He's not doing it for profit, but hopes it can pay for itself. This is a real jewel for NYC based pilots. Jobe also run Manhattan Flying Club.

The sim is super high tech, uses X-Plane with two large touch screens for avionics. He set up an G2 SR22 environment for me with full simulation of MFD, PFD, A/P, dual 430's, transponder, everything identical to actual plane!

The sim is hooked up to live ATC via Pilot Edge.

I flew an ILS approach from KSMO to KVNY down to minimums. The socal controller was very professional, gave me the typical departure to intercept LAX radial, fly outbound on assigned heading,. radar vectors for SMO, then vectors for the ILS. He read the initial clearance so fast I had to ask him to repeat one part. It's hooked up to foreflight.

Costs are very reasonable of $40/hr or $90/month unlimited. You can log time there, bring CFI or come by yourself. Great for student pilots or currency for licensed pilots.

Website www.manhattanflightclub.com.

Video: https://vimeo.com/112089893#t=42s

The sim supports all types of Cirrus and Cessna aircraft and more coming.

I took this cellphone photo yesterday of the main sim to give you an idea. Bottom two screens are both touch, and left is an ipad with foreflight.

They also invite local aviation people to do talks. FAA was there a while ago talking about how they view things from their perspective (in a friendly environment). Tell Taylor that Tom sent you.

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