I'm very interested in sims from tech point of view. I'm a software engineer by day and like to mess about with flight sims for fun. One of the things I'm doing at the moment is writing my own auto pilot - there's no way I'd be allowed to that in the real thing
It was a great moment when the plane climbed and maintained the set altitude for the first time.
And interesting thing you can do to improve the depth of perception problem is to make the main screen apear to be focused at infinity. You can do this with a simple (and cheap) Fresnel lens (A4 page magnifier). Once you get the distances right the effect is very interesting especially if you run the control panel on another monitor.
How does flying a real Airbus feel with it's side stick and no force feedback?
Cheers