![]() You can get a system that runs MSFS at a playable quality for around 2 or 3 grand and you can take advantage of the greater ecosystem of peripherals and addons on PC.Īs Terry mentioned, this video game will only provide you familiarity with a airframe it’s procedures and radio communications, regardless of how realistically you treat it. Freeware airports and scenery, VATSIM etc There’s a yoke, throttle and pedals for the console sure but there’s a gobsmack amount of things you could add. If you go the xbox route, you may not get the same flexibility to create your piper simpit and aid in your PPL studies. Regretfully I’m a little long in the tooth to resurrect my licence so get my aviation kicks out of MSFS instead. Long-winded I know but I’d hate for you to be disappointed and lose interest. MSFS needs a pretty powerful machine to get only the basics to work satisfactorily and you’re right, they cost! Instead I’d use the funds to finance more real life experience. In your position I think I’d go for the cheapest option, which is likely to be the Xbox route. He subsequently agreed with me that for initial training the sim was of very limited use, although his instructor did say he was impressed with some of the things that students normally had difficulty with. But when he decided to start real world instruction, with a view to becoming a commercial pilot, I stopped his “training” with me. That said flight simulators do have use in practicing procedures, provided they have been properly explained by the instructor beforehand.Ī friends grandson pestered me to “teach him to fly” on my sim and we started off pretty well, he was a natural. ![]() I’ve been told that flight instructors have difficulty with students who have “learned to fly” on a simulator before commencing real world training as they usually have to get the student to “unlearn” various practices. You get no feedback from the controls plus unless you use VR you won’t get visual cues either. The first thing you should appreciate is that a real aircraft feels entirely different to a “game” flight simulator. ![]()
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