[flipper35]

So, fun(ish) story. She loves flying and she loves rides so anytime there is a full motion flight sim we have to try it. We generally have a good time, other than the incident breaking a wing off the F18 in San Diego and bruising the bone in my shoulder. The last time we were on our way back from touring out west and stopped at the SAC Museum in Lincoln. Was kind of odd when we paid and had limited choices as we paid for the upgrade and couldn't do any air combat stuff, which was backwards to us, but anyhow. We decided to fly the Extra 300 and they guy was strapping us in and Emily was pulling the straps really tight and the guy said "you don't have to have them so tight" and she said "You don't understand, I DO have to have them as tight as I can get them". He was like, "No, you won't fall out of them or anything". Then he proceeds to tell us to go full throttle and count at least 7 seconds and pull up gently, yada, yada. We were polite and waited for him to finish. He finally closes everything up and off we go. Soon as the airspeed was in the green, haul back on the stick and then do a snap roll, right off the runway. We proceeded to do inside/outside Cuban 8s, lumshevak and so on. When we get done the guy wouldn't look Emily in the eye and my wife said that when we took off that the people in the "audience" watching the cockpit camera all went "ooohhh". Not the fireworks kind of statement but the oh I am going to be sea sick kind. She said when ever we did the more violent maneuvers they all grimaced and groaned. The other girl working the other sim then stated, I think as a challenge, that she had not seen anyone shoot down an enemy plane. Had we more time we would have obliged her.

At Oshkosh and WPAFB we did the air combat sims.