Is this an admission that you can't stay several minutes ahead of your plane?
You'd better let your wife do the flying from now on.

Ouch. That's low... ;-)

The point is, you don't have to stay that far ahead of any plane moving
at 130 knots. When you're moving at 250 knots, however, in a plane the
size of a 747, you make tiny little movements that make your aircraft
move to a spot in the sky a full minute or three ahead.

This is why simmers trying to land a 747 (myself included) usually
crash. We're trying to raise a wingtip with abrupt turns of the yoke
(as we would in a Cherokee, for example) -- and that just doesn't work
in an aircraft the size of a destroyer.

Our pro pilot NEVER made a motion that you could even see, yet the 747
ended up greasing the runway. It was fun to watch.

And, BTW, if you ever set up that little toy of yours to run Falcon 4.0, I'd be
happy to link up and blow you out of the sky in a few dogfights. In my small
circle of F-16 gamers around the world, I've become the "one to beat"
lately.(small, shameless brag)

Cool! I've not played Falcon since version 3.0 (and quickly discovered
that it is so complex that you can't play it casually), but I've heard
4.0 is THE combat sim to have.

I've fought the urge to put any combat sims on the Kiwi, simply because
I'm trying to emphasize the educational aspects of it -- but eventually
I'll have to give into the urge. (I let my son install "Need for Speed
- Most Wanted", the latest-greatest racing sim, and it's pretty
awesome...!)

But I still think that in a real F-16, my real experience in real planes would
serve me better than all the time I've spent shooting down other gamers
in Falcon 4.0.

Depends again on how "real" your flight controls are in the sim. If
you have emulated a REAL F-16, your sim time will serve you well. If
you're "flying" with a keyboard, it won't help you at all.
--
Jay Honeck
Owner/Innkeeper
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"