Here are the specifications of the Aerosim Solutions Boeing 737-800NG Cockpit Simulator. I have had a great deal of help from members of the Perth Worldflight team over the last couple of years. They helped me get the sim ‘flying’ in time for the 2014 Worldflight event. Our Perth teams have raised over AUD$35,000 for the Royal Flying Doctor Service here in Australia since 2014. The 737 team meet to fly the sim most Monday nights and our flight sim gurus regularly perform their tweaks and upgrades to keep “Velocity738” in great shape. “VOZ738” (our VATSIM callsign), is not a commercial simulator but we regularly attract some local flight crew from Virgin Australia. They share their flying skills with us and teach us how to handle component failures, it’s great to get free lessons from the real deal!

The simulator is built on a steel framework made from welded square RHS tubing, the entire simulator sits on four 250kg capacity locking castors. The main floor is 16mm thick MDF board. The shell structure is also made from welded square RHS tube and it is skinned with 3mm PVC sheeting. All flight controls and the steering tillers are linked mechanically for two pilot operation. The main components are listed below.

• Four computers running 6 video cards 1 x NVIDEA RTX3080Ti, 4 x GTX650 & 1 x GTX980
• Three BenQ W1080ST projectors
• FlyEliseNG Immersive Display Pro warping software
• PROSIM 2 – 737 cockpit software and logic from ProsimAR
• Lockheed Martin Prepar3d Version 4.5 (64bit) simulation software
• 2 x Flightdeck Solutions FMC units and Glare wings
• CP Flight Mode Control Panel Pro & 2 EFIS Pro units
• 4 x CP Flight Radios, 1 x ADF & 1 x Transponder unit
• 6 x Flight Illusion Overhead panel gauges
• 1 x Matrix Orbital VFD2041 for the ELEC display
• 2 x Ipad Mini 2 displaying Navigraph charts with aircraft position
• 1 x 5″ HDMI monitor for the Inertial Reference System display
• Flightdeck Solutions SYS1X, SYS2X & SYS4X interface cards
• 4 x Leo Bodnar BU0836X interface cards
• 3 x Ruscool intercom cards for three position intercom headsets
• 2 x Buttkicker Gamer seat shakers & 5.1 sound system
• 2 x Real Boeing yokes and gearboxes
• 2 x Real Boeing eyebrow trims
• 2 x Real Boeing Steering Tiller handles
• 2 x Real Boeing Stick Shakers
• Everything else has been built by Aerosim Solutions

Additional softwares

• Aivlasoft Electronic Flight Bag
• Navigraph – moving maps and flight planning
• vPilot Communications
• ActiveSky16 + ASCA Weather engine
• PFPX & TOPCAT
• FS Realtime
• Prosim Utils
• Wide Client
• Dellenbach Simvionics – custom Auto-throttle software which was written specifically for the Aerosim Solutions 737TQ.

Master Computer specifications (built 2020)

• Motherboard – ASUS PRIME Z390M-PLUS LGA1151-CL mATX
• CPU – Intel Core i9 9900K 3.6GHz Coffee Lake R 8 Core 16 thread
• CPU Cooler – Corsair Hydro H100x Liquid CPU Cooler
• Video Card – NVIDEA RTX 3080Ti
• Ram – Kingston 32 Gigabyte DDR4 Vengeance LPX Black C16 3200 MHz
• Main hard drive – WDBlack SN750 1Tb 3D NAND NVMe SSD (x2)
• Power supply – Corsair HX1000i 1000watt 80Plus Platinum Modular
• Case – Cooler Master MasterBox  CM694 Mid tower case
• Software – Windows 10 Professional OEM 64-bit

2 x Identical slave Computers (built 2015)

• Motherboards – Asus Z87-PLUS
• CPUs – Intel Core i5-4670K Haswell 3.4Ghz
• Video Card 1- Asus GeForce GTX650-E-1GD5
• Video Card 2- Asus GeForce GTX650-E-1GD5
• Ram – Kingston 8 Gigabyte DDR3
• Main hard drives – Samsung 840 128Gb SSD
• Power supplies – 700watt Cooler master G series
• Cooler Master N300 Black mesh ATX tower cases
• Software – Windows 10 Professional OEM 64-bit
  

The 4th Computer is an i5 tower with a GTX 980 video card and a 24″ Hewlett Packard touchscreen monitor. This PC runs the instructor station, Wet Compass, IRS display, ActiveSky16 weather engine, PFPX, Aivlasoft EFB, Prosim Utils and Navigraph.