Simulators are designed to not fully trim to a stable
a/s-heading, the design parameter is to make the pilots fly.

If you can fly a simulator, whether it is a basic PC based
software job or a $10,000,000 full motion, full visual state
of the art jet, the airplane will be easy.



--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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"Mark Hansen" wrote in message
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| On 01/16/2006 12:10 PM, Denny wrote:
| This is an old thread I stumbled across... Wanted to
mention ASA's, ON
| TOP, IFR proficiency simulator... I also have
FS2004Pro, but I prefer
| the instrument panel that ON TOP has...
| Besides, this is IFR practice, why are we rating sims on
how realistic
| the scenery is?
|
| Anyway, I fly IFR in an old Apache, which is not on
either sim, so I
| simply dial up a Bonanza or a Baron and use that... And
I do not have a
| yoke, just use a joy stick... I do not notice the
differences when
| getting in the real airplane... My reflexes are geared
to accomodate
| the cockpit I'm in at themoment... It is procedures that
need
| repetition, not power settings, joy stick versus yoke,
etc...
|
| cheers ... denny
|
|
| The problem I have with the simulators (I use MS FS 2004)
is that
| the yoke doesn't really represent the trimmed-out speed of
the airplane
| (in that if you let go of the yoke/stick, the airplane
will do what it
| is trimmed to do).
|
| As a result, I spend a lot of time getting the trim set to
the point
| where the attitude will remain relatively constant. This
can be really
| irritating when changing configuration (like when entering
a holding
| pattern after cruise flight).
|
| I wonder if there is a way to tell the simulator to manage
the trim
| a little better? I've looked some ... need to look more.
|
|
| --
| Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane
| Sacramento, CA