In 2010, halfway through the development program, Lufthansa tested the seat with passengers on a real flight.
Greengrass uses real flight attendants, air controllers, and pilots, and mixes them in with little-known or unknown actors.
"What you're seeing now is a real flight to quality," said David S. Rose, chairman of New York Angels.
But for a real flight down memory lane, check out these videos for footage, images and descriptions of the flight approach into Kai Tak.
But recently, I flew a Boeing 747 simulator, which is so realistic that pilots are allowed to accumulate simulator flight time as real flight hours.
After you leave the 747, begin or end your day near dawn on a real flight (albeit on a much smaller plane).
The weirdness of it feels especially marked in a week when a real flight and 75 real lives were lost in La Unión, Colombia.
In the real flight, as in the movie, our boys jury-rigged a lifeline to their lunar module, and then used what little power they had on a precision-shot to get their tiny craft back home.
"We felt that accepting perhaps a little more risk, but certainly getting flying and getting real flight experience with this hardware, was going to be a more effective approach in the long run," Mr. Hanley said.
"I was tired of the virtual world of simply clicking mouse buttons," said Junji Hirayama, a doctor in Wakayama, Japan, whose hyper-accurate 747-400 mock-up stood in for a real flight deck in a hit Japanese television drama.
Reconfigurable ability of controller also validated in real flight experiment.
