Flight Series
by admin on Mar.02, 2009, under Uncategorized
How do the Microsoft Flight Simulator series games compare to the real thing?
I run FS2004
Interesting question. I’m an avid gamer and fly 747’s for a living. The last two jobs I got, I used Flight Simulator to help me become more familiar with the cockpits before I went to the new ground school and simulators. It’s especially helpful if you’re learning how to use some new types of equipment, such as the autopilots on a 747-400 series.
That said, there are tons of equipment on the actual aircraft that just isn’t represented in the game at all. It won’t help you prepare for the complexities involved programming a flight management system, or how to effectively use a Terrain Warning Alert System, or a Traffic Conflict Advisory System, to name just a few.
The performance characteristics seem to be okay on most of the airplanes. The planes in the game seem to perform better than most of the ones in real life. I guess age and real world performance aren’t ever quite like what the books say it will do.
The actual handling characteristics seem pretty good, but it’s hard to translate the feel of turning an 800,000 lb. airplane with a yoke into a small plastic joystick. Nothing (yet) in computers can replace just the simple feel of acceleration or the bumps of some light turbulence. A lot of your sensations such as cockpit wind noise, the sound of the jet engines, etc., all go into what you see and use on the instrument panel to help you fly the plane. In many ways, flying the actual airplanes is probably easier than the computer.
Hope this helps.
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