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Originally Posted by SoCalAprch  
Once you start flying try to leave most of the Flight Sim stuff at home. Its a whole different ball game. When I instructed as soon as a student told me he was big into the flight sim world I knew it was going to be a "i knew that already" type of student. As said above start to read the airplane flying handbook, AIM, etc... and play flight sim for fun. It will help in certain ways... Also really try to get down to the local FBO and just talk to people. You would be surprised by how many plane owners would be happy to take you up and show you the ropes. |
Just the other day was at my local FBO.Intoduced myself to a fellow pilot about to hop into a cirrus sg20(sweet plane btw) 5 minutes later we where callin clear prop! Shortly after we found our way into a G1000 172. Great experience for me.Both planes were very new to me,although I train in a 172(1976) lol. I learned a ton just watching how the new avaioncs work in both planes! An absolute blast!