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If the simulator would be FAA-certified, would you say that they simulate things accurately enough? Partners of Laminar Research are selling FAA-certified X-Pl

• inoffensivename 3y ago
  It depends on what you mean by "accurately enough". To teach a student the interplay between pitch and power, how changes in configuration require changes to pitch and power, etc, they can be useful. They are very good as instrument procedural trainers. For flight at high angle of attack, e.g. slow flight near or beyond stall, the models are not very accurate. Also a simulator will never help a student overcome the fear they will invariably feel when they do their first power-on stall.
• traceroute66 3y ago
  > If the simulator would be FAA-certified, would you say that they simulate things accurately enough? There are different levels of FAA-certified for sims, and I think we can agree that X-Plane is very much on the lower end of the spectrum. My understanding is that X-Plane is based on limited geometric data, meanwhile at the other end of the spectrum, the Level D simulators that the airlines use are formally validated and tested against the real aircraft’s flight data. So yeah, not accurate enough, ESPECIALLY (as @ inoffensivename pointed out) the sort of things you might want to use it for basic student pilot training.