Will flight simulator help me?

[Stinger]

Microsoft Flight Sim?? While I did play it quite often, I learned how to fly from the Playstation Ace Combat series. Flying right towards the enemies at 600 mph, firing off two quick missiles, rolling and diving to miss their missiles, and then strafing the gunboats with a last second missile to finish them off....ahhh now that is how real flying is done.

[GJ1]

When I first got started my instructor put sticky notes on the gauges until I stoped looking down so much..

Before he did it we were flying and he asked me "Do ya play Flight sim much?" I answered yeah and he said "I can tell"... haha

[mtsu_av8er]

Originally Posted by GJ1

When I first got started my instructor put sticky notes on the gauges until I stoped looking down so much..

Before he did it we were flying and he asked me "Do ya play Flight sim much?" I answered yeah and he said "I can tell"... haha

I played MSFS quite a bit as well, and I found myself staring at the instruments too. However, that was easily fixed, and was acceptable, considering how much time I saved.

I saw the same thing in my students during my years as an active CFI. I'd rather work a little harder to keep them off of the instruments, and not have to spend as much time (and their money) in the airplane going over what the elevator does and how the OBS works.

Well worth the trade-off.