Building time with Home simulator?
06-03-2007 | 08:14 PM
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Building time with Home simulator?
I wasn't sure where to put this post, but anyways here's my story... Basically I'm in 2nd year of my degree in a flight school and I'm trying to build more hours for obvious reasons.. I picked up a version of Microsoft's Flight Simulator X and I was just wondering if the FAA approves any amount of flight time on home simulators?
Any info helps,
TIA.
Any info helps,
TIA.
06-03-2007 | 08:34 PM
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
I wasn't sure where to put this post, but anyways here's my story... Basically I'm in 2nd year of my degree in a flight school and I'm trying to build more hours for obvious reasons.. I picked up a version of Microsoft's Flight Simulator X and I was just wondering if the FAA approves any amount of flight time on home simulators?
Any info helps,
TIA.
Any info helps,
TIA.
Basically, no.
I think they recently have started to approve some PC-based simulators for some training, but they have to have actual airplane control and radio interfaces (not joystick & keyboard) and also have to be enclosed in a cockpit-like box. They also have to be certified, which means it would probably be expensive to buy.
MS Flight sim can be useful for practicing instrument scan and procedures AFTER you have learned the basics in a real sim or airplane. Aside from that, it's not remotely like a real airplane.
06-03-2007 | 09:01 PM
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PCATD's (google it) can be used for 10 hours towards an IFR rating. I think more advanced versions might be approved for more but they are very expensive.
MSFS is not approved for anything as far as the FAA is concerned. There are some things I think it does well, though.
MSFS is not approved for anything as far as the FAA is concerned. There are some things I think it does well, though.
06-04-2007 | 05:03 AM
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I wasn't sure where to put this post, but anyways here's my story... Basically I'm in 2nd year of my degree in a flight school and I'm trying to build more hours for obvious reasons.. I picked up a version of Microsoft's Flight Simulator X and I was just wondering if the FAA approves any amount of flight time on home simulators?
Any info helps,
TIA.
Any info helps,
TIA.
06-04-2007 | 02:07 PM
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Yes, you can log those hours you spend flying microsoft flightsim even if you use flightsim 2004. The best thing to do is download most of the planes you dream of flying and log those hours. Don't let a single minute pass by without logging it. Once you meet the published mins for major airlines who fly those planes send resumes and a copy of your logbook showing the flightsim hours logged and you should be in like flynn.
06-04-2007 | 02:35 PM
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06-04-2007 | 02:43 PM
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It's almost George Kastanza ish. I made a few mistakes in my past, like logging my first years flight time in disappearing ink. I picked the pen up at a gag shop and lost track of it. One day I needed to catch my log book up with about 500 hours and just happened to use that pen by mistake. I didn't catch the error until two years later. I was at an interview and the interviewer asked why I skipped over half the book.
06-04-2007 | 05:56 PM
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
It's almost George Kastanza ish. I made a few mistakes in my past, like logging my first years flight time in disappearing ink. I picked the pen up at a gag shop and lost track of it. One day I needed to catch my log book up with about 500 hours and just happened to use that pen by mistake. I didn't catch the error until two years later. I was at an interview and the interviewer asked why I skipped over half the book.
06-04-2007 | 06:13 PM
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Dude, microsoft flight simulator is an awesome training tool to practice procedural stuff, but in reality you can't get any stick and rudder skills from it because the aircraft performance is soo unrealistic. It's saving me so much money on instrument stuff though, you'd be suprised how great it is when you pull out your favorite approach and fly it on flight sim, then you go do it for real and see the simularities! You still can't count it for logging purposes though.
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