Tweaking the throttle on approach

Mxsmanic wrote:

Unfortunately I tend to be impatient in the sim and I'm often still not
aligned even as I cross the threshold, unless I planned to land at that
airport well ahead of time. I usually come in fast because I'm making rather
risky turns on the approach and I don't want to come too close to a stall.

The benefit of your simulator is that it doesn't destroy the landing
gear on your sloppy landings and that is why it is nothing like real
life. It lets you get away with the most terrible landings... (It always
says excellent landing to me but that's not what my instructor ever says
-and he's right I'd give myself typically 5-8/10). Based on your
extolling the virtues of MSX I recently got the latest version and tried
it out with the aircraft I'm training on. Basically I'd have to say it
simulates a C172 very poorly and I'd say it's only use is for simulated
instrument flying. Even so, it's response does not mimic my aircraft
near the limits of the flight envelope -it behaves like a flying game
really. Red Bull flying race? What a pile!

Mark

On Mar 5, 7:22 pm, DR wrote:
[...] Based on your
extolling the virtues of MSX I recently got the latest version and tried
it out with the aircraft I'm training on. Basically I'd have to say it
simulates a C172 very poorly and I'd say it's only use is for simulated
instrument flying. Even so, it's response does not mimic my aircraft
near the limits of the flight envelope -it behaves like a flying game
really. Red Bull flying race? What a pile!

A lot of people think FS2004 is better than the latest version,
because it needs less computer horsepower. MSFS is like the Star Trek
movies... every other one is a dog ;-) In any case, download the
RealAir C172, it acts better than the stock version:

http://www.realairsimulations.com/li...page=downloads

Luck! Kev

DR writes:

The benefit of your simulator is that it doesn't destroy the landing
gear on your sloppy landings and that is why it is nothing like real
life.

Actually it does. Sometimes the gear is destroyed (the extreme case),
sometimes it is just damaged, sometimes the damage is subtle and you find out
about it the hard way when it won't lock for the next landing.

It lets you get away with the most terrible landings ...

Not if you are using the add-ons intended for serious simmers, with realism
cranked up. I even damaged a flap once and didn't find out about it until I
encountered a sharp rolling tendency aloft whenever I fully extended the flaps
(that one took a while to figure out, in part because I had trouble believing
that the sim had actually simulated partial damage--but it had).

(It always
says excellent landing to me but that's not what my instructor ever says
-and he's right I'd give myself typically 5-8/10). Based on your
extolling the virtues of MSX I recently got the latest version and tried
it out with the aircraft I'm training on. Basically I'd have to say it
simulates a C172 very poorly and I'd say it's only use is for simulated
instrument flying. Even so, it's response does not mimic my aircraft
near the limits of the flight envelope -it behaves like a flying game
really. Red Bull flying race? What a pile!

Where do you put the realism settings?

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