Subject: PC flight simulators
From: "Vaughn"
Date: 11/16/03 6:52 PM Pacific Standard Time
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ArtKramr" wrote in message
...
I flew real simulators. And I have flown the crap they make for
computers.And
anything that you can do on a computer isn't even close. If you want to
fly
your computer for fun ok,bur remember it is just a toy. but don't confuse
it
with real flying or flying a real simulator. I guess you have never flown
Air
Force simulators. If you had you wouldn't be talking such patent nonsense.
Now
be a good guy and just go away.


I think it depends on what you are trying to simulate. If you are
studying instrument procedures, then a good PC sim may make a great
procedure trainer. If you want to learn how to fly, then every PC sim that
I have seen so far is worse than useless. Without motion, without a wide
view, without being able to look out the side window and back to judge your
downwind-to-base turn, without true feedback on your controls, without true
"butt feel" of accelerative forces, without a whole bunch of other stuff;
you are wasting your time and perhaps "learning" something dangerously
wrong.

If you just want to have fun with your PC, go for it!

Vaughn (a flight instructor)



Good sense all the way. We must never lose a firm grip on reality. And those
who urge others to take flight simulators seriously to learn how to fly, are
themselves playing a very dangerous game. We have to protect the innocent
against the unprincipled and the unknowing. You stated it quite well..




Arthur Kramer
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