Fantatsic news from Keith

[bruce]

Posted on Facebook (I personally hate it but thought I would have a look) 12 hours ago as of 1315z

PilotEdge
12 hours ago
Big day yesterday, we had a $6MM Level 6 FTD connected to the PilotEdge with a test flight from LAX to SBA. The client has two of these units being delivered, and has already considerably more units of a similar class on order.

It was always the vision that PilotEdge would service home users, flight schools, colleges and higher end sim centers. As of yesterday, the vision just became reality.

Good things are in the works!

Congratulations Keith, a just reward for all your hard work, not forgetting all the Controllers. Time to crack open a bottle of Shampoo?

[arb65912]

Congratulations, Keith. Finally! Cheers, AJ

[Jeff N]

That's awesome news, congrats!

[Vincent Meier]

Keith,
It just goes to show that hard work, dedication and passion do pay off!!
Good start....keep the ball rolling!

[larryav8r]

Congratulations Keith and team. This is great news.

[Denny22]

Yes big time congrats from me as well.

The word is getting out about PE. After my 1st IFR flight today where I did all the flight planning, the weather breifing etc, my instructor told me after the flight, he said, boy that simulation your doing must really be amazing. He said you nailed this flight, you knew what to expect, what was going to be said to you by ATC, and your read backs were mostly all correct, you planned ahead, and stayed ahead of the flight.

Last week I showed him my flight sim at home and he was totally blown away. After today he want's me to help him build one or buy one to start using on all his students.

To me, it is a must for pilots wanting to learn to fly and/or improve their skill.

I'm so happy for you Keith
Denny

[Brandon Grchan]

Yes big time congrats from me as well.

The word is getting out about PE. After my 1st IFR flight today where I did all the flight planning, the weather breifing etc, my instructor told me after the flight, he said, boy that simulation your doing must really be amazing. He said you nailed this flight, you knew what to expect, what was going to be said to you by ATC, and your read backs were mostly all correct, you planned ahead, and stayed ahead of the flight.

Last week I showed him my flight sim at home and he was totally blown away. After today he want's me to help him build one or buy one to start using on all his students.

To me, it is a must for pilots wanting to learn to fly and/or improve their skill.

I'm so happy for you Keith
Denny

Awesome to hear!!! Congrats on having come so far in your flight training Denny!

[Daddy O]

Simulators are great for ground school practice. An instructor can trainvyou on your home sim, but it can only be counted towards ground school unless the sim is certified, and even thenyou are only allowed like11 hrs sim time logged toward flight time for your ifr ticket. But since ifr is 50% procedural, why not have instruction on the sim.

Do you have callsigns for these commercial sims? Id love to know when they were on, maybe go play traffic.

[Keith Smith]

Thanks for the well-wishes, everyone, this certainly is an exciting time for PE.

Denny, that's great news and congrats, I'm so glad it's all paying off for you....I knew it would Please have your instructor reach out to me via the Contact page on the web site if he's interested in setting up an account so he can offer the service to his students from his sim.

BATD's can log up to 10 hours for IFR and AATD's can log up to 20 hours for IFR under Part 61. Beyond that, it's whatever is approved for a Part 141 course. Students are quickly realizing that logging time is the least important aspect of all of this. Look at Denny...he couldn't log a second of the time he spent in his sim, yet it was tremendously valuable for his training. Low cost, non-certified training devices are a fantastic tool and have the potential to greatly reduce the cost to train.

[Daddy O]

and how did you make the connection with the big sims? Add on PC? Or was their SW designed to accomodate PE with just a plugin?