You can dial flight failures into the sim.

This does help, but what you get in the sim will only rarely be what you'll end up with in the real world.

However turning up winds, gusts, reducing fuel levels or battery levels, etc. will help the experience ( by default these tend to be OFF ).

Yet this is only a partial emulation of the real world.

That said....


A couple of years ago I modified an Extra in the sim, to make the rudder fall off during violent manouvers.

I got pretty good at flying the model in the sim w/o a rudder....

A short time after that I managed to smack the tail of my real RC plane on the top of a tree, during the bottom of an outside cuban eight.

The plane was upside down, and the tail hit, sheering off the rudder. The plane was still flying.


Immediately other people saw what happened and came running over towards me to try to help.

I was able to right the plane and shout out "don't worry I got it, I practiced this in the sim!!!"....

Thanks to the sim, I learned how to use the throttle to control yaw and pitch, so I executed a perfect landing landing and having it coming to rest right in front of me... tail-less but none the worst through all of it.


The sim "saved my plane!".