On Simulators as assist to IFR training.

On Mar 4, 4:09*am, Mxsmanic wrote:
Paul H writes:
The one thing you don't get is comm experience - there is a Comm DVD
that's available through Sporty's to practice various types of ATC
communication, and I recommend it.

You can get superlative comm experience by joining VATSIM or IVAO, which
allows you to simulate flights with real people providing ATC by voice that
corresponds precisely to the real thing.

As a matter of general interest, there are a number of sites that
offer real links to real time ATC communications. If a novice wants
experience, he or she can listen in, assume the identity of an
aircraft, and practice keeping up with instructions issued to it. That
is real, not sim.