Totally agree with Wombat,
RANT is a tutorial and simulator all wrapped up in one well designed, economical, thorough and complete package. Includes tutorials, exercises, complete radio and RNAV avionics simulations of various varieties including the venerable and ubiquitous king stack, etc, etc. Thom 5 is a pretty decent book for bed/bath/commute time if you ask me. I don't know what the errors are that IO540 is alluding too though.
MS Flight Sim. Hmmm. Frankly I gave up with this. It's like pressing bibbles on wallpaper. You spend more time trying to get the damn thing to work at a reasonable speed, downloading all sorts stuff to make it more 'realistic' and never really getting anywhere. If you have plenty of excess time on your hands feel free, otherwise I would suggest avoid.
Last edited by High Wing Drifter; 10th Apr 2006 at 19:00.