A different kind of 'flight sim'.

[Panzerlang]

A bloody amusement park.  The visit was my son's birthday present but I was immediately looking for the 'Messerschmitt 109 rides'.  Nearly 16 stone, 6' 6" tall and 53 years old, it wasn't an easy experience. It wasn't long after the two I went on had started that I was wishing I could get off. But I managed to do the "da da da da da" (out loud) as I imagined I was on the tail of a well-flown Yak. The speed's  obviously nothing like a real plane but the twists and turns and loops were far tighter than any plane could do so I figure the feeling was in the right ball-park. 4.3 Gs on one of the rides (and 850m long). I'm still feeling slightly traumatised. But it puts a whole new light on the real thing.

[ShamrockOneFive]

Haha! I know the feeling! A couple of years ago I went to Canada's Wonderland and hopped on the Leviathan with a 306 foot drop, 90 degree dive at the beginning and about 3 minutes run time overall and a 4 g pull. I screamed my way through the whole thing... had to take a breather because I'd run out of air to scream with. Yeah that was one heck of a roller coaster. Not sure how flying in a fighter in WWII compares but I definitely had a similar thought process wondering if this is what it's like.

 

Ever since then... I've tried not to roll my virtual pilot upside down quite so much :D

[DickDong]

4 g's is a warmup exercise in modern fighters...so is 6 temporarily.

[Panzerlang]

306 feet?!  The park we went to had a 207 foot jobby and I declined. I was going to do it until the second one I did finished me off. It accelerates the buggies from 0 to 80mph in 2.3 seconds (x2 BHP of F1 cars it says in the blurb). And then vertical for 207 feet. Then negative G over the top and vertically down. That has to be something like a fighter doing a zoom-climb and then a bunt into a vertical dive with a hard pull-out. Aye carumba, the real guys must have been seriously fit.

[Georgio]

I used to love roller coasters especially the new steel coasters when they came out. Busch gardens was a favourite especially 'Montu'  which at that time in the '90's was bad-ass. Roll on twenty odd years and now I feel sick just going on the kiddie coasters with my three kids.

Good reason why people stop combat flying in their 40's methinks...

[Sternjaeger]

extreme roller coaster rides should be compulsory when buying a combat sim 

[Georgio]

extreme roller coaster rides should be compulsory when buying a combat sim 

 

With the advent of Oculus and it's ilk I'm pretty sure the flying experience is going to be every bit as intense as a roller coaster...

[Sternjaeger]

you'll still need the G effects mate, those you can't simulate yet (that would be an AMAZING gym session)