Sim Soars as Learning Tool - Wired News

[WebbPA]

Interesting article on Wired News.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0, ... _tophead_6

[flyboy 28]

yeah... ive used fs looooooooooooong before i took my first flight lesson. and with fs, you can fly almost ANYTHING YOU WANT for about 50 bucks... this should be moved soon... somewhere...













boooooooo marlins!

[JW]

My sentiments:

"LOOKING, LOOKING, LOOKING!"
That's what I was told during my soaring lessons. Which, truthfully, the artical points out is not very well developped in FS. (3D surround vision, I don't think so)

Then: if I was a testsubject, I'd rather have the traditional lessons, instead of the ones with FS.

3Rd: teaching me to enter trafficpatterns? With FS? AI is always overtaking me when I'm on final (unless I approach with 230 kts).

Nice article, but a lot of BS if you ask me...

[BFMF]

After spending most of my life using flight simulators of some sort on my computer I went up for the first time last spring with an instructor who was surprised at what I already knew. And now that I'm taking a groundschool course, I can't even tell you how much the flightsimulators have helped me.

[Wing Nut]

I agree, during the few lessons I've had, the instructor commented about how I already knew where each gauge and control was on the C172 I was flying and how I was already familiar with the radios and nav equipment.

I would love to get my hands on the Navy versions they were talking about.  Anyone know where?  There was a link in the article, but it wouldn't let me download it.

As for moving this, I'm not sure where to move it too, so let it ride...  

[BFMF]

[quote]As for moving this, I'm not sure where to move it too, so let it ride...

[Wing Nut]

Actually there is supposed to be no flight sim talk there either...

[BFMF]

However, it isn't banned from the General board. Pete has always allowed general aviation/flightsim discussions there. If it was a specific flightsimulator it would go in the apprapriate flightsim board, See what I mean?

[Wing Nut]

I have a better place...

[WebbPA]

What a quandary.

It wasn't 2002 or 2004 specific.  General Discussion is supposed to be non-FS stuff and Flight Sim speak is not allowed in the Cafe.

The article wasn't even that good.

[Wing Nut]

Actually, it was kind of interesting and a very good subject for discussion.  I still want to know where to get the navy version of FS...

[Smoke2much]

Just a copy of the VC they use would be nice.

Will