On Feb 14, 11:22 pm, Blanche wrote:
If you're near a college with an aviation department, see if there's
a way you can register for one of the sim courses. Local college here
has 12 Frasca, 4 ATP, an old DC10 that United donated over
10 years ago and 4 B1900 (don't know the vendor). Trust me, using a
Frasca is a couple orders of magnitude more effective than anything
MS sells. Plus, you get to count the hours towards the rating (which
you can't with MSFS).

Yes, it'll be mroe expensive but you won't pick up bad habits.

A few years ago I participated in a study at the University of
Illinois. They were seeing how long VFR pilots could last in IMC.
It wasn't a Frasca simulator (I don't remember what kind it was), but
the outside view was displayed by 3 projection screens.

Somehow I managed to live :-)

I didn't know that these simulators were open to the public. Do you
have to enroll in a class in order to use them?