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Monday, April 22, 2019

Dream Aero Flight Simulator coming to Westfield Montgomery Mall in 2020

Westfield Montgomery Mall patrons will take to the skies next year without leaving the Bethesda mall. Dream Aero, a flight simulator similar to those used to train actual pilots, will arrive at a location on Level 3. Level 3? Could this be replacing the long-delayed Japanese steakhouse outside the ArcLight Cinemas? That's the only space available on Level 3.

Dream Aero is currently available in malls in places like Dubai and Moscow, where it provides an accurate simulation of flying a Boeing 737. It's an authentic closed-cockpit, moving simulator just like professional pilots use. Sessions are priced by length of time, with VIPs getting 120 minutes behind the controls. Westfield says more details about the specifics of their flight simulator operation will be available in the future. But for now, this sounds like a great innovation to add to Montgomery Mall as another entertainment option.

Also coming sooner to the mall are Eyebobs and Windsor. To be located on Level 2 in the Macy's wing, Eyebobs is an "irreverent" eyewear retailer opening this summer. Windsor is a women's apparel and accessories boutique, and will open this fall on Level 1 in the Old Navy wing.

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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:42 AM

    Does MoCo Dead Mall really want to be known as the place where terrorists trained for the next 9/11?

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  2. Robert Dyer7:48 AM

    7:42: The mall is quite alive - and meanwhile, new urbanist Rockville Town Square is on life-support. Ironic, isn't it? How's that hole in the ground where White Flint Mall was once drawing crowds doing, old sport?

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  3. Anonymous8:17 AM

    A quick glance at the "Center Map" on Westfield Montgomery Mall shows that about a third of the shops there are vacant, and it's worse specifically on the first floor. While that's better than NoVa's Landmark Mall, it is definitely cause for concern.

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  4. Robert Dyer8:21 AM

    This is a scoop - no one else has reported this flight sim yet but me.

    8:17: Have you looked at the Rockville Town Square map recently? LOL.

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  5. Anonymous8:22 AM

    "Dream Aero is currently available in malls in places like Dubai and Moscow, where it provides an accurate simulation of flying a Boeing 737. It's an authentic closed-cockpit, moving simulator just like professional pilots use."

    Does it include the autopilot suddenly forcing the plane into a steep dive which the (human) pilot cannot override, leading to a crash in which all the (virtual) passengers and crew are killed?

    No thanks. Do they have any plans to offer an Airbus A320 simulator?

    "Sessions are priced by length of time, with VIPs getting 120 minutes behind the controls."

    "VIPs"? What pretentious twaddle.

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