AviationBanter - View Single Post - Realistic Instrument Training using MSFS 2004

**Mortimer Schnerd, RN[_2_]** · February 14th 07, 09:08 PM posted to rec.aviation.student,rec.aviation.ifr

wrote:
The one thing I didn't like on the simulator was crosswind landings, a
concept which took longer for me to get through my thick skull than it
should have!

You are right about holding a stable approach on the simulator. It
seems especially hard for me during an ILS approach. With a real
airplane it I have never have seen a full deflection of the needles;
it's common on the simulator!

I couldn't care less about landing the airplane in the sim, crosswind or
otherwise. I already know how to do that and I can't remember the last time I
made a hard landing. OTOH, almost every landing I've made in the sim has been
little better than a controlled crash. Sometimes it's an uncontrolled crash...
but WTH. I don't worry about it be cause I have the skills necessary to land
smoothly in real life.

I use the sim for the instrument practice: no scenery, panel in 2-D... it's all
about procedures and keeping my scan speed up to snuff. That's the stuff I work
on with the sim.

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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com