Home Flight Sim Use in Pilot Training, Part 1 | MSFS | X-Plane | PPL
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This is the first in a series of videos where I will discuss the utility of home flight sims, and if they can be used to augment and enhance actual pilot training.
Future installments will include:
Maneuvers
Checklist/Procedures
Navigation (Analog/Steam, G1000, GPS, VOR)
ATC/Comms (VATSIM, PilotEdge)
Let me know if you have a specific topic as it relates to home flight simulation and pilot training.
I can wholehearted agree to this! i'm actually currently using MSFS sitting in the right seat of a sportcruiser to pratice for my CFI checkride maneuvers!
Love it! Good luck on your checkride!
I would say that for hand flying it isn't much good. However, with the force feedback equipment that might change. But when it comes to procedures, navigation, and IFR approaches it is great. I would check for forecasted marine lay at KSNA. The night before I would do multiple "trips" from KBNG to KSNA and fly the approach to minimums. Then do the missed approach. Over and over. Then the next morning I would fly my Mooney to KSNA and do it for real.
Since Saddleback Mountain would hold the marine layer back I would take off in perfectly clear skies and yet have a 0/0 at KSNA. I was able to focus on tracking the needles, the bumps and noise of the real environment, and the feeling of going missed. I didn't have to worry about the procedures because I had did them over and over on the simulator.
If I knew that I had a actual trip planned I would fly it beforehand in the simulator. Including the approaches and also at night so when the time was to do it for real I had already been there. I am putting in a Garmin G3x, dual G-5, and a GTN 750 in my Mooney. I am also building a complete simulator for it. Since this will likely be my last plane the simulator will match it almost exactly. I am making it on a steel base with wheels and I am going to weld scissor jacks on so that I can level it anywhere.
I am researching how to make the G3x and GTN 750 using IPads. I still not sure which force feedback yoke and rudder pedals I will use. With the force feedback this could be a game changer. A multi-engine rating has a lot to do with controlling the plane on one engine and the key are the rudder pedals. No flight school around me has these types of pedals. I could charge $50 hour, less than the flight schools simulator at $89/hour, and have my simulator paid for. Yes, you can't log the time but a hour of multi-engine with instructor is $450/hour. You could use my simulator, with feedback that is closer than their $89/hour simulator, for 9 hours for the price of one hour in the real thing. And there is a lot of things you can't do in the real plane that you can do in the simulator due to safety reasons. Once I build this I might just get my multi just for fun.
I think force feedback will really be helpful assuming they get it dialled in appropriately. It will certainly be a game changer in terms of trimming and stalls. I think if you add in something like PilotEdge (not affiliated, but I am a full price customer) it really ups the ability to practice. Having said all of that, there is nothing like sitting in a real plan with the forces of gravity working on you, so I would agree that hand flying is still not there, but I do think it's getting better and better.
First comment !
Not for private, instrument maybe.
No offense. Disagree. Flying on pilotedge or vatsim for atc comms are invaluable.The first 10 Pilotedge certs are vfr.