ORIGINAL: JoelStolarski
When flying a real model with heat, sweat bugs in your eyes and the potential
to crash the model which doesn't reset itself, then there is that significant difference
between sim and the real model.
So use a sim as an aid to test model parameters and to teach yourself orientation.
I agree. Especially the bugs in the eyes.
And bees that land on your hands while you are doing a touch and go and you shake the bee off and bounce the plane off the runway.
Sims are great like you said for orientation and basic skills. I thought that's all there was to it until I went out there in the real world.