"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Ron Natalie writes:

You should plan better so you aren't running down the (I believe it
is a 182).

Heck, I couldn't even see the Cessna until it was about a quarter-mile
away. I spent a long time searching for it.

I think one problem is that I was not flying the pattern correctly.
The Cessna pulled in front of me. I'm still not clear on how long
each leg of the pattern is supposed to be, although I'm very gradually
getting better at flying a pattern without wandering all over the
place.

I don't know what kind of approaches you are making
in the game, but you should hang further back in faster aircraft.

Right now I'm just trying to fly a pattern correctly by myself. Once
I master that, I'll try to worry more about other aircraft in the
pattern.

If you passed underneath me in real life, I'd have the FAA on
short final I'd have the FAA on your ass.

That's the advantage of simulation. Mistakes in simulation cost
nothing.

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I have found spotting traffic in MSFS is unrealistically hard to do, unless
you turn on the little red labels for the planes that they have... Much
easier to spot a Cessna on a 3 mile final to Renton from the Renton
downwind in real life than in MSFS. This proably because the traffic in
flight sim isn't more than a pixels wide until are basically on top of them.

Wade Hasbrouck
PP-ASEL
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