Simulation Rate Increase.. Do you?

[SubZer0]

I look from the outside to look for landmarks. I dont fly jets. I did increase time once in a Maule from Trenton, NJ to El Centro, Cali

i use TrackIR in the VC to search for landmarks...

speaking of which, i dont ever speed up the time, because with the scenery around me, i use TrackIR to look out of the windows and stuff to check out the view.

[Brett_Henderson]

File and fly a bunch of IFR flights in a 172, including executing published approaches. That will get you familiar with ATC and following approach plates to the letter. Then, when that's all second nature, download, read and learn the particulars on some standard departures and arrivals. They're kinda like the approach for the approach, at bigger airports and for faster aircraft. Last time I messed around at a live ATC site (I think it was WestCoast ATC), they encouraged you to file realistic flight plans and have those arrivals printed and with you and be able to fly them as published. If you've never flown a published approach in a small, slow airplane, you'll be overwhellmed trying to do it in a big jet.

[SubZer0]

Where can I get these published approaches? And which FS do most virtual airlines use?

[macca22au]

Crashing in a Stang will kill you - crashing in FSX means you can re-set the flight and try it again.  Stay of the V8, get a small car, and learn to love FSX

[SubZer0]

Thank you for caring . But I don't want the GT for racing, I just want it because it feels good to have a car with a little more power than average. I'm not crazy enough to go risk my life like that. It's a bit hard not to love FSX

[ATI_7500]

It's a bit hard not to love FSX

LoL?

Try telling that to the "FSX should run like FS9 on my PC" faction.

[SubZer0]

LMFAO. Besides them, I mean.

[macca22au]

It' s just like what Jayhawk has said.  If you are flying low and slow, then 1x is the simulator rate that you need.  If you occasionally fly the heavies and set up for a long flight of several hours, or a north atlantic track, then you would have to be a masochist to fly in real time (and I have to go to work to pay for the upgrades that FSX demands). Like Jayhawk I climb to cruise in real time, then accelerate, sometimes to 8x, and before top of descent return to normal time.  Some payware will even pause the simulator at top of descent so you don't forget to bring it back to real time.  Also, when I am doing test runs on settings, I might accelerate middle phases, just so I can concentrate on what matters.  Its a utility, and its there to be used if you require it.  But if you do speed it up, put the plane on autopilot, because every little handling twitch will spread you across the sky.