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im gonna start building hours with real flying but i was wandering of buying one of those certified flight simulators to practice and actually get hours on but at a maximum price of $5000 can any one of you guys tell me if there is a good certified one please it would help me a lot.
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Posted 30 January 2010 - 01:40 AM
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Posted 30 January 2010 - 11:14 AM
If you talk to any flight instructors, they'll tell you that the worst possible thing you can do is log hours on a flight simulator.
There are plenty of articles, arguments, and threads all over the internet debating wether flying a flight simulator is beneficial or not.
Don't pay ridiculous loads of money on a sim that you can only log 5 hours on. WHen you log hours in a plane, you need to try it in a simulator, and see how much different it is.
My instructor told e to forget everything I learned from the sim before I start logging hours.
In the end, it's just not worth it.
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There are plenty of articles, arguments, and threads all over the internet debating wether flying a flight simulator is beneficial or not.
Don't pay ridiculous loads of money on a sim that you can only log 5 hours on. WHen you log hours in a plane, you need to try it in a simulator, and see how much different it is.
My instructor told e to forget everything I learned from the sim before I start logging hours.
In the end, it's just not worth it.
-Jason
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Posted 04 February 2010 - 07:49 AM
madjason12, on 30 January 2010 - 11:14 AM, said:
If you talk to any flight instructors, they'll tell you that the worst possible thing you can do is log hours on a flight simulator.
There are plenty of articles, arguments, and threads all over the internet debating wether flying a flight simulator is beneficial or not.
Don't pay ridiculous loads of money on a sim that you can only log 5 hours on. WHen you log hours in a plane, you need to try it in a simulator, and see how much different it is.
My instructor told e to forget everything I learned from the sim before I start logging hours.
In the end, it's just not worth it.
-Jason
There are plenty of articles, arguments, and threads all over the internet debating wether flying a flight simulator is beneficial or not.
Don't pay ridiculous loads of money on a sim that you can only log 5 hours on. WHen you log hours in a plane, you need to try it in a simulator, and see how much different it is.
My instructor told e to forget everything I learned from the sim before I start logging hours.
In the end, it's just not worth it.
-Jason
I'd think twice before making that blanket statement, Jason. I just went back over my own logbook starting from my time here at UND. During my instrument training, I shot more approaches in an FTD than in the actual airplane. They're just as log-able in the sim and count the same towards instrument currency and instrument proficiency checks. The sim may not provide the same kinesthetic responses as the real aircraft (unless it's on motion jacks, of course), but it still helps to foster good cockpit discipline and procedural management. Mistakes made in the sim are also far less costly in both monetary and literal terms, and the sim is a relatively inexpensive way to transition to a new aircraft as long as its set up right.
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Posted 04 February 2010 - 12:06 PM
Dhruv,
I do believe that you are on a much higher level than a Private Pilot Licence, (Or in this case, a Private Pilot Permit) so a simulator is necessary to practice instrument flying, ILS approaches etc etc.
Most flight schools teaching on a private level limit the possible hours towards flight simulator time. At my flight school, it is limited to 5 hours, out of the total 45.
In your Private Pilot course, you don't much look at instrument flying, or anything above a VFR level. So IMO, spending $5000 on a simulator would be a large waste of money, seeing as flying at Rampages' level will only be at a Visual level.
Can you see where I'm coming from on this?
-Jason
I do believe that you are on a much higher level than a Private Pilot Licence, (Or in this case, a Private Pilot Permit) so a simulator is necessary to practice instrument flying, ILS approaches etc etc.
Most flight schools teaching on a private level limit the possible hours towards flight simulator time. At my flight school, it is limited to 5 hours, out of the total 45.
In your Private Pilot course, you don't much look at instrument flying, or anything above a VFR level. So IMO, spending $5000 on a simulator would be a large waste of money, seeing as flying at Rampages' level will only be at a Visual level.
Can you see where I'm coming from on this?
-Jason
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Posted 06 February 2010 - 06:32 AM
madjason12, on 04 February 2010 - 12:06 PM, said:
Dhruv,
I do believe that you are on a much higher level than a Private Pilot Licence, (Or in this case, a Private Pilot Permit) so a simulator is necessary to practice instrument flying, ILS approaches etc etc.
Most flight schools teaching on a private level limit the possible hours towards flight simulator time. At my flight school, it is limited to 5 hours, out of the total 45.
In your Private Pilot course, you don't much look at instrument flying, or anything above a VFR level. So IMO, spending $5000 on a simulator would be a large waste of money, seeing as flying at Rampages' level will only be at a Visual level.
Can you see where I'm coming from on this?
-Jason
I do believe that you are on a much higher level than a Private Pilot Licence, (Or in this case, a Private Pilot Permit) so a simulator is necessary to practice instrument flying, ILS approaches etc etc.
Most flight schools teaching on a private level limit the possible hours towards flight simulator time. At my flight school, it is limited to 5 hours, out of the total 45.
In your Private Pilot course, you don't much look at instrument flying, or anything above a VFR level. So IMO, spending $5000 on a simulator would be a large waste of money, seeing as flying at Rampages' level will only be at a Visual level.
Can you see where I'm coming from on this?
-Jason
Your right That was a bad idea but i was just thinking since i always read on websites that you can build hours off the thing. so then i was thinking of actually buying one but maybe only for the future but i guess its better just to stick to real flying.
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