Originally Posted by
Scott Duch
Now that I'm home for a few weeks off Uni, I was thinking how useful Flight Simulator would be towards future flying in the real world. I understand that it's rather useless for feeling how an aircraft flies but what about in terms of instruments? I have flown the Cessna 172 in Flight Sim and also the 747 with the FMC, overhead panels, PFD, MCP etc.... What are your thoughts on this? Sorry for bringing this topic up again.
At your stage in flying, over-reliance upon instruments can be very detremental. So, I'd actually caution that until you're reasonably well developed in your training (say, post-solo) time spent on something like MS Flight Sim may actually slow up your flight training, since real little aeroplane flying is much more reliant upon feel and looking out of the window, than it is upon "flying by numbers", which inevitably is what you're doing on a PC based flight simulator.
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