Martin Gregorie wrote in message . ..

- no glider simulator can give realistic all round views and won't
until there's a good VR helmet available. Looking through the
'letterbox' and flipping it round with the coolie hat is no
substitute.

- no butt feel


I agree, the limited field of view inherent to PC based simulators is
one of the primary reasons I regard them as little more than toys, no
matter how good their graphics and sound effects become. This
limitation may be tolerable for power sims, since power pilots rarely
look out the window anyways, but for soaring it's leaving out an
essential part of the experience. I've been playing with PC
simulators for about 20 years, and in that time there's been
approximately zero progress in this direction. I hope we don't have
to wait for neural implants in another 20 years for this to improve.