Microsoft Flight Link
03-03-2012, 02:06 AM
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Microsoft Flight Link
ProFlightSimulator® - The Most Realistic Airplane Flight Simulator Games Download
a great tool to start learning to fly!
a great tool to start learning to fly!
03-03-2012, 07:39 AM
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Use it as a game, use it as a head start to train to be a pilot...
03-04-2012, 09:24 AM
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I agree. Any flight simulator program is great for teaching instrument skills, but NOT how to fly an airplane. Xplane is a LITTLE better but still a far cry from teaching stick and rudder skills.
But once you get your PPL and want to practice approaches and holds, thats when I say load up flight sim and shoot approaches all day.
But once you get your PPL and want to practice approaches and holds, thats when I say load up flight sim and shoot approaches all day.
03-06-2012, 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by DirectTo
If you're a potential student reading this...please don't. I speak these words as a former full-time CFI. The students who "studied ahead" using Flight Sim were some of the biggest pains in the asses, clearing up bad habits they had obtained before even touching an airplane and especially getting them to keep their eyes outside.
03-07-2012, 04:58 PM
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I know a guy who broke the front tire of a C152 while landing on a short field. He was a student with the instructor next to him. How did he blow the front tire? Because he touched down with his toes firmly on the brakes!
Where did he learn that THAT was the way to land on a short field? 1000 hours on his home flight sim, thats how.
Where did he learn that THAT was the way to land on a short field? 1000 hours on his home flight sim, thats how.
03-08-2012, 06:24 AM
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The title of this thread is "Microsoft Flight" yet teheran link is clearly to a different simulator. Quite misleading and looks like spam almost.
Also, Pro Flight Simulator is an unauthorized repackage and resell of the open source, General Public License, FlightGear project.
Having said that, Microsoft Flight came out and is free to play, and you can buy addons. Unfortunately, I found it too much like an arcade game.
I'm sticking with FSX and XPlane (Xplane 10 just came out but too expensive for me so I'm sticking with Xplane 9 for now)
Here is the actual link for Microsoft Flight fr those who want to try since it is free
http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/
Also, Pro Flight Simulator is an unauthorized repackage and resell of the open source, General Public License, FlightGear project.
Having said that, Microsoft Flight came out and is free to play, and you can buy addons. Unfortunately, I found it too much like an arcade game.
I'm sticking with FSX and XPlane (Xplane 10 just came out but too expensive for me so I'm sticking with Xplane 9 for now)
Here is the actual link for Microsoft Flight fr those who want to try since it is free
http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/
03-08-2012, 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by DirectTo
If you're a potential student reading this...please don't. I speak these words as a former full-time CFI. The students who "studied ahead" using Flight Sim were some of the biggest pains in the asses, clearing up bad habits they had obtained before even touching an airplane and especially getting them to keep their eyes outside.
Picking a house that would be a good spot to start a base turn, for example.
As an instructor, you have to be more proactive to guard against the bad habits, but I made myself available and open to answer any questions about anything they had been doing on the simulator, and I would say that those students benefited from the simulator.
From my 3 short years of full time instructing, that's my view.
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