Vincennes University's legacy simulators had a motion option that lagged and never felt right, so the program stopped using it. They then flew a RealSimGear SR7x Pro on a 6 DOF platform, pulled the CAPS handle, and immediatley changed their mind about motion in simulation. Vincennes is now standing up a six-device lab, five of them on motion: four SR7x Pro for its Cirrus SR20 G7 fleet, a PSx Pro Seminole, and an SFx Premier Vision Jet for Crew Resource Management. Six months in, roughly 40% of instrument training has moved into the simulator at $75 an hour against $230 in the aircraft.

RealSimGear has launched the SFx Premier, a complete replica Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet cabin built around its existing SFx flight deck. The cabin recreates the full window frame for use with wraparound visual systems, and adds a second seat with co-pilot side force feedback stick, a live CAPS and emergency overhead panel with oxygen mask pockets and map lights, and an integrated instructor camera for crew resource management training. The Premier Motion configuration mounts the same cabin, fully enclosed, on a commercial-grade 6DOF platform. SFx Premier starts at US$249,000; Premier Motion configurations from US$399,000. AATD approval is currently being sought.