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


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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.


Yes. I've trid it and the home sim feedback systems are a joke. Even
sophisticated sims aren't great this way and I still can't see even the
most sophisticated sims being anything more than an aid in teaching
procedures.


Bertie