Visiting captains to my sim

[Maurice]

I had a very nice experience yesterday with some visitors to my sim. Take a look here if you are interested in the details and in some pics:

http://www.flightdecksolutions.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4572

Maurice

[ETomlin]

Great write up! Love your retelling of the day.

[jackpilot]

Grrrrr......(jealous)   

[MLeavy737]

Sounds like a great time! Nice pics too!!

Mike L

[jackpilot]

BTW Mau , you were skeptical when I asked you some charts and frequencies to try out your wonderful beast!  See....hé!

[Maurice]

BTW Mau , you were skeptical when I asked you some charts and frequencies to try out your wonderful beast!  See....hé!

I wasn't really skeptical. I was thinking what I would have been doing in my case if I did not have these visuals and I was just on a short visit with someone who had them. My first wish would have been to just take off & go to see what it was like rather than spending a lot of time preparing for it first.

Real captains on the other hand who fly business jets & triple 7's see magnificent scenery all the time and should 'normally' be less impressed with FSX visuals. I was obviously wrong the other day but I understand why they would also be more inclined to spend a lot of time preparing their flight.

Nothing in FSX comes even close to matching what they see in real life and they were also very interested in totally replicating one of the actual flights they have done in real life including all the procedures.

Maurice

[jackpilot]

Just jokin'...your Sim is by far the best I ever sat in but I'm so used to fly on instruments that the AC is rapidly all over the place if I stare outside, combine that with my reluctance to use the MCP and AT and you get what you saw!!

[Maurice]

Just jokin'...your Sim is by far the best I ever sat in but I'm so used to fly on instruments that the AC is rapidly all over the place if I stare outside, combine that with my reluctance to use the MCP and AT and you get what you saw!!

If you want the real truth, in all my flights lately, I have barely looked outside except when taxiing. I'm just too busy trying to figure out the charts & how to do a good NDB approach. ILS approaches have become too easy, at least in the simplistic way I do them but I really need a permanent first officer here who can help me with NDB approaches. My wife is not interested at all and an inflatable F.O. just won't do

Based on what I saw the other day, there is no way you can do it all by yourself so you have to cut corners somewhere and skip a few steps along the way.

Maurice