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From my experience flying and instructing students, the extra sensory input from a real airplane makes it more difficult, not less, than flying a simulator. It
by docandrew 3y ago
From my experience flying and instructing students, the extra sensory input from a real airplane makes it more difficult, not less, than flying a simulator.
It’s easier to get task-saturated, random things such as sun glare on your instruments, a bug-spattered windshield, crummy radios, etc all contribute to a more challenging environment.
Simulators can be a useful training aid and are a good tool for mission rehearsal but no replacement for the real thing.
- wkipling 3y agoI think the difference is like you say in the real aircraft you can get a lot more task saturated. A sim feels like being a fly on the wall almost as if in 3rd person. But as far as manual handling goes, the real jet is much easier, runway textures and peripheral cues for landing are far more obvious in reality.
- jcalvinowens 3y agoI definitely agree the real environment is more challenging in a holistic sense. What I meant is that in a real airplane, you have the advantage of things like G-force, force feedback from the reversible controls, stall buffet, the sound of the airstream on the windscreen, complete peripheral vision, etc, which combine to make the actual "manipulating the controls to make the airplane do what you want" part of flying easier.