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Old 09-10-2010 | 09:13 PM
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Default RE: How Much Wind For Training?

I got the point but Don is correct in the real world. Who cares on the sim, it's just a teaching aid and gives you a bit of an idea. I always had fun with heavy wind and gusts on the sim.
This morning it was dead calm, as the day went on the wind kicked up. My planes may not know it's windy but they sure react to it!! I had a student up with his 4*60 and on a turn the plane got all out of sorts for him. I had him keep flying but I landed for him. Even my Hots was getting kicked around. The sim will teach you to keep watching the plane and to react to what the wind does to it.
I like 10-15 with gusts on the sim just for fun. My sim is the G-2 so the newer models are a lot better. Have fun with it then try it for real. Your reactions will be better. Funny thing is, people think 5 MPH is 15 in the real world.