Originally Posted by
LeoSV
Yes, Microsoft FS is good for instrument. It is highly accurate with positioning in the real world. As far as preflight checks, there is nothing you can do in the game. The rudder is unreal, stalls are unreal, takeoffs and landings are unreal, traffic is unreal.. I played it for a couple years before I got my PPL and I knew what all the intruments did before my first lesson, but other than that, it's just entertainment. if you use your charts with the game and set it on very dense fog, you can get good practice with navigation, as long as you don't cheat by using the GPS feature. Anyway, that's my opinion of the game. Fun, and for $44.95, it's as realistic as it cost.
Originally Posted by
LeoSV
Yes, Microsoft FS is good for instrument. It is highly accurate with positioning in the real world. As far as preflight checks, there is nothing you can do in the game. The rudder is unreal, stalls are unreal, takeoffs and landings are unreal, traffic is unreal.. I played it for a couple years before I got my PPL and I knew what all the intruments did before my first lesson, but other than that, it's just entertainment. if you use your charts with the game and set it on very dense fog, you can get good practice with navigation, as long as you don't cheat by using the GPS feature. Anyway, that's my opinion of the game. Fun, and for $44.95, it's as realistic as it cost.
I agree with you both. In my opinion, MSFS is about as far from realistic as it gets. But it did help me in that I knew 90% of the instruments before I started taking flying lessons for real, some procedures, ATC talk, etc. Also, it's the only way I can get at the controls of an airliner (for now
). A lot of it just depends on the aircraft you get.
From what I can tell in the demo FSX feels a lot more authentic than FS9.