Tweaking the throttle on approach

Mxsmanic wrote:
Tim writes:


But I don't think that has anything to do with your delusions
about being able to fly a real Baron.


Since it hasn't been tested, we don't know if it's a delusion or not.


I have. It is a nice game. I prefer the real thing though. They have
very little in common.


If so, you haven't configured your sim correctly.


I am pretty sure I am in a better position to judge this than you. I
have flown real airplanes. I own one. I have played MS flight sim. It
is fun to do instrument approaches with it - it is somewhat helpful in
keeping me practiced at the procedures. I KNOW which one is real, and
which one isn't. Apparently you mistake your computer world for the
real one. I, however, do not have that problem. It has nothing to do
with configuring my game. It has everything to do with you configuring
your mind.

Tim writes:

I have played MS flight sim. It is fun to do instrument approaches with
it - it is somewhat helpful in keeping me practiced at the procedures.

Which aircraft do you simulate, what type of flight controls do you have, and
which add-ons do you have installed?

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Mxsmanic wrote:
Tim writes:


I have played MS flight sim. It is fun to do instrument approaches with
it - it is somewhat helpful in keeping me practiced at the procedures.


Which aircraft do you simulate, what type of flight controls do you have, and
which add-ons do you have installed?


I own a grumman AA5A. It has a normal dual yoke control. It came with
the plane. I have modified the plane with a LoPresti cowl/nosebowl, and
I just had new leather seats installed. It has a JPI EDM 700 fuel flow
meter. I also have a garmin 295 hand held gps mounted to the plane.

For real flight training I get instruction in a Frasca training device.
I can log that time as simulated instrument time and count it toward
ratings or currency. I can't do the same for my games.

As an aside, I recently built a cockpit simulator for my 3 year old
nephew out of a carboard box. It has a REAL compass (not like MS flight
sim - which is fake) and it had a real AOPA sticker in it. I even put
on a propeller. As far as the FAA is concerned I can log time in that
as much/as well as I can log MS flight sim game time.

We can go round and round. You are engaging yourself in a game. You
try to convince people it is as good or better than the real thing. You
are never going to be able to convince anyone of that. You are
delusional.

"Tim" wrote in message
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I have played MS flight sim.

Operative word here is "played".

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