"Dashii" wrote in message
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From: "kallijaa"
Subject: Flight Simulator now being used by flight instructors
Date: Friday, October 24, 2003 3:54 PM


"Dashii" wrote in message
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"kallijaa" wrote in message
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"Ed Forsythe" wrote in message
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Kallijaa,
I suspect that you were trolling and you painted yourself into a
corner

Now you are desperately attempting to extricate yourself. Don't let
the
facts confuse you - hang in there!
--
Happy Flying,
Ed

I'm quite comfortable in my corner, your suspicions not withstanding.

If you read my first post to this thread, you will find that I fully
acknowledged the contributions of flight simulators since the
beginning
of
instrument flying. Your experience with Link Trainers might be similar
to
mine and my true appreciation of them might agree with yours. The
Links
were roundly hated, but grudgingly used by flying students to learn
and
practice IFR procedures. Their main asset was the associated plotting
tables that enabled them to fly virtual Loop and Adcock (Low
Frequency)
radio ranges while being monitored by a flight instructor. The
rocking
and
tilting motions produced by the Link's pneumatic systems were
laughable
and
the Trainers had nothing to do with contact flying. Students pilots
weren't
allowed to come near the dreadful little crates until they were found
to
be
sufficiently proficient in the air.

The idea that a fledgling will profit from simulation prior to gaining
such
proficiency is absurd. Instead, it will have the opposite effect.
Simmers
are training themselves to do precisely what they shouldn't when
flying
an
airplane under contact conditions. One of the most difficult habits
to
break in a new student is the natural tendency to stare straight ahead
and/or at the instrument panel. Instructors must teach students to
keep
their heads "out of the cockpit and on a swivel," in order to know
where
they are, to appreciate in full the attitude of their aircraft and to
keep
clear of danger in the form of other aircraft and obstructions.

Jeez, I thought that I had good situational awareness (SA) from "flying"
the
sims because visibility is so poor that you must use your outside views.
Try
flying a combat sim and see how quickly you are shot down if you don't
have
good SA.

Dashii

How well you plead my cause. While playing your combat game, you access
outside views with your fingers while staring straight ahead. In the
air,
it doesn't work that-a-way.

You are out of touch with modern flight simming.

Well, I haven't upgraded to FS9 and my crappy old computer doesn't sport a
2Ghz cpu, so maybe.

A lot of simmers now have several monitors that not only display the
left/right view but the left/right up, top/down, front/back, up/down
views.

A welcome improvement enjoyed by an insignificant few.

There is also an IR device that tracks the outside views as you move your
head.

I also like the germ of that idea

Many like myself also have top quality yokes and rudder pedals/brakes,
mine
is a Precision Flight Control system.

I also use GoFlight instruments.

How delightful for you, and how tiresome for the rest of us.

Flying airplanes is a hobby much like sailing, bicycling, hang gliding,
mountain climbing, flight simming, swimming, etc.

There are professional pilots just like there are professional sailors,
cyclists, etc.

Tell your CFI that you are approaching flight as a hobby, and so are
unconcerned with flight safety.

Get it out of your head that you are somehow elite and seperate from
someone
that doesn't fly airplanes, you are not.

Alas, your teeming with a lot of news about fancy personal flight
simulators, but lack omniscience.

Anyone with several thousand dollars to spend can get a private pilot
certificate.

Thanks for the revealing insight. Counterfeit certificates are less
expensive and perhaps your only option.

I may and then again I may not.

Milton Friedman would be proud.

Let the paint dry and you may yet get out of that corner! G

Dashii

Curses!! Foiled again by Dashii!!!.