The third day of the trip was a busy one! We met in the lobby at 7:30 and departed for Boeing. The facility was down by the airport and the prison museum that we went to yesterday.
We got to tour the training rooms where they do cockpit training:
They have rooms for CBT training, one of the first steps in pilot training:
After the tour, we went to a room with a Boeing 787 Flight Training Device (FTD):
The last rotation was to go to the flight simulators. This site has 7 full flight simulators, 6 for Boeing and 1 Airbus.
Our group of six split into groups of three, and we each took turns piloting and copiloting. The scenery for the simulator was SeaTac and surrounding areas; the graphics were incredible! There were moving cars on I5, and you could see ferries out in the Sound.
After successfully having a good time but maybe not so successfully landing the plane, we headed back to the rest of the group to debrief.
The next company visit was Tableau Software; Tableau has been in Singapore for two years and came to SE Asia to bring data analysis everywhere.
From Tableau, we took a bus to the Economic Development Board of Singapore.
Following our long day of meetings, the group headed across the street to the famous Long Bar for Singapore Slings. While everyone had a wonderful time, we felt the pain of the new alcohol laws in Singapore. One drink per person = $521 bar tab!
To close out the day, some of our Boeing folks went to dinner with Jim and a local gentlemen to discuss aerospace. It was a great opportunity to network within in the industry in Singapore, and those students really enjoyed the experience!
Some of the non-Boeing group went on the expedition I have been waiting for since arrival: dinner in Little India. Following a recommendation, we went on a hunt for The Banana Leaf Apolo
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