suppliment the downfalls accordingly. A good example is landing orientation. It is very difficult to learn to set up a landing approach on a simulator, because you have no peripheral vision, or spatial orientation (which way your head is pointed, and which way your feet are pointed). Thus, finding the runway can be impossible unless your brain is capable of keeping up with where you are in the sky based on sky textures
Jared,
You have the wrong settings on your sim. If you are using G2 you can see the runway when you are landing. You probably have the zoom to aircraft set. With G2 I can lineup with a tree and come straight down on the runway, just like I do at our field. I never take my eyes off the airplane. And I can lineup with the runway every time.
As far as flight sims, people will agree and disagree. I had the opportinuty with working on the E6 and B1B simulators in realk life. So I do know that even real pilots use sims to tech them how to fly a particular plane. Some states even have simulators to teach people how to drive, or sims for cops to teach them different aspects of thier training.
Sims are all around us!!! (Not refering to the game the Sims either!)
