Certified Homebuilt Sim

[Jim Rosenow]

OK....back in the day Paul P and our other founders went to the FAA and convinced them to allow airplanes in the sky built by hand by people with no formal training at all.

I submit it's not that big a stretch to put together a sim or specs for a sim and propose it to the FAA to be certified for logging time just like the sim at the local flight school.

Granted in advance...the regulatory environment has changed since EAA started, and the guvmint folks might a bit more picky. Countering that is the fact the only thing we could hurt with a certified homebuilt sim is our proficiency. I'm not aware of a single instance of death, injury or property damage via sim :-)

Has anyone investigated that at all? Being a retired IT geek with time on my hands, I've been kind of wondering about it. It would be a fun project to work on.

Thanks!

Jim