Mxsmanic wrote in
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SockPuppet writes:

Though I haven't
done it you can also play with various GPS devices without having to
buy them (much of those devices' functionality is recreated).

The Garmin GPS units are recreated with complete accuracy


No, they aren't.


But for actually handling the plane: stalls, unusual attitudes,
spins, wind gust corrections on landing, real emergency procedures,
etc, it does not help you (IMHO).

The weaknesses of a PC sim are the lack of motion, limited visibility,
and the differences in controls. Anything that depends on either of
these will be hard to simulate, although more elaborate sim set-ups
can mitigate some of these problems. Since there's a lot more to
flying than VFR, these limitations are not as great as they seem,
unless flying a tiny plane strictly under VFR is your only ambition.

The weather stuff is okay but innacurate -- it often only gets the
weather kind of close to the airport selected.#

If you use something like ActiveSky, the weather will be identical to
that of the real world (although obviously the individual clouds will
not have the same shape).



No, it won;'t you dozy fjukk


Bertie