Re: Weekend

It's quite possible if you have a lot of stick time, AND you spend the entire weekend flying with your instructor.

The sim is NOT:

- Going to teach you how to tune your engine
- Going to teach you how to correct fuel system problems
- Going to teach you how to set up your linkages
- Going to show you about lateral inbalance and surface warp
- Going to locate errors in assembly
- Going to teach you how to maiden a plane
- Going to trim out your plane
- Going to simulate other flyers at the field
- Going to blow a hard gust of air at your plane at just the wrong time
- Going to simulate that hard sink thermal just off the runway threshold, though doable in G4
- Going to have a bird come out and attack your plane in the air
- Going to give you the weak knees you'll get the first time you fly
- Going to throw a bug in your face and the sun glare in your eyes at the wrong time

The list goes on, and on, and on....

The sim WILL help reduce the number of training sessions you will need.

If you can fly a trainer upside down all the way around the airfield in the sim, you are just about ready to spend 4+ days of training at the field before certifying.