truespur (October 7, 2008 at 1:18 pm)

you guys need to re- lay the tarmac on the runway

Rickenbacker69 (September 26, 2008 at 10:58 am)

Most nosewheel aircraft have a steerable nose wheel, and you can also use differential brakes, but the latter is mostly for taildraggers or planes with a free castoring nose wheel.

Rickenbacker69 (September 26, 2008 at 10:56 am)

If you fly with a complete stick/throttle/rudder pedal setup, it'll help a little. Otherwise you're just familiarising yourself with the instruments, it won't help you much with the actual flying - no PC flight game is realistic enough yet, IMO.

boondocksaintpoop (September 25, 2008 at 4:13 pm)

It might help but i found flying a lot different and, landing for me is alot harder in real life exspecially with cross winds.

flattrackmile (September 21, 2008 at 2:49 pm)

"Takeing" off??? "Jerking of"??? What are you trying to say Lassie? Timmy's in the well? Is that it girl?

flattrackmile (September 21, 2008 at 2:46 pm)

Please tell me, what exactly is a Cessna 270? Nobody cares if you're father flies, that doesn't mean spit.

flattrackmile (September 21, 2008 at 2:30 pm)

I have over 4000 hours total time and I can tell you that any flightsim is harder than the real thing. Flightsim helps if you practice actually going through procedures like checklists. It is most useful for IFR training. Some of your IFR training will most likely be in a flight simulator that is much less sophisticated than your "flightsim 2007." By the way there's not much to taking off, especially in a fixed gear fixed pitch airplane, just add power, if it's running, it WILL take off.

andyrik (September 17, 2008 at 5:32 pm)

Its probably easier controlling an aircraft in real life, from my experience. The difficulty comes with learning all the different checks, eventualities if something goes wrong (you may have to consider a range of things upon landing, in case something goes wrong at the last second) and controls in tough weather. Getting used to a yaw is also weird at first. You dont usually get random engine fires on FS, nor all the controls to deal with them properly.

soaringintheclouds (September 15, 2008 at 5:09 am)

ya it will help alot. thats i got started and now im only 7 hours from my licence

paddyandy (September 14, 2008 at 2:08 pm)

just a question,i have flightsim 2007.and i can easly takeoff and fly and land without crashing,And i use the Profesional button.can i compare this with the real thing.because i am thiking about taking real lessons.So does my expireance with flightsimhelp me a little???