Blueskies wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
...

After the student learns in the actual airplane to think of control
use in terms of pressure rather than movement in a direction, and
after solo, I find no harm in going back to the sim for use as a
training aid.


--
Dudley Henriques


Speaking of pressure, is there some sort of yoke interface for PCs that
includes force feedback? Something where the controls stiffen with speed
and out of trim conditions? Never seen anything like that on any I have
messed with. There was a really nice $100,000 set up at OSH with two
projectors on a curved screen that was very realistic, but I don't think
it had force feed back either...


Yes there is. I've experimented with it and found it useless if the
objective sought is realistic aircraft control pressure feedback.
What it does do is create some "effects" for the user that are intended
to produce a more realistic experience, but in my opinion, the
technology falls way short of this goal.

In fact, my opinion of force feedback is so negative, I personally don't
use it.

--
Dudley Henriques