Originally Posted by
punkalouver
I am suspicious of sim handling. I have been on 7 type ratings in the sim(and several more in the actual aircraft). Most, maybe all do not handle like the aircraft.
Going back to my initial post, the ATR sim I flew required a big pull to get airborne. The actual aircraft was just fine.
Be cautious in assuming the handling of the sim is representative of the aircraft.
When EAL got their A300s the word in the sim was that the airplane did not handle as "badly" as the sim did on a V1 cut. I don't remember what the complaints about the sim were. But, within the year we had one lose an engine somewhere. The word came back, the airplane handles like the sim.