ORIGINAL: RDThompson
I am working real hard with the RF G5 sim. I am basically working on landings - one where the aircraft could be flown again. I think I am doing real well using the Hobico Nexstar Select BP without all the stabilizer stuff. My question is how well the simulator represents real flight. I have accumalated abour 30 hours and am using the Advanced setting with some wind across the runway.
I plan to buy a Hobico Nexstar Mini this spring when the white stuff leaves and am hoping the sim is not giving me a false sense of ability.
Would appreciate any comments. Thanks
None of the sims are going to nail the way your model flies exactly. Yeah, you don't have one yet, but the point is that sims have very low probability of matching the real models most of us fly. CGs, weights etc just aren't going to be the same.
Turn on turbulence in addition to your "wind across the runway".
The sims teach some good things. But no matter how good any are, you're going to discover it's a very different world when you're actually out there in the world. Nonetheless, you're learning way more by doing what you're doing than you'd learn waiting for summer watching TV.
I've had a number of students who'd spent time with sims and every one who was serious did very well from their 1st session. Some had quite a time with perspective, but not very long. So keep doing what you're doing.