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Flight Instrument Simulator - Is This As Real As A Simulated Airplane Experience Can Possibly Be

By: Dave Whitaker

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Is using a flight instrument simulator anything like flying a real aircraft? The answer is an unresounding "yes"! The lines in between the realistic nature of the flight experience in a flight simulator and the experience of flight in an actual aircraft have been effaced as the development of simulator software has improved drastically, by leaps and strides, over the years.

Modern computer software engineering technology has evolved to become so sophisticated, to the point that if you operate the flight instrument simulator on your home computer and then you fly the simulator aircraft's real world counterpart, you will barely be able to identify any substantial differences in aircraft performance. In fact, the only actual substantial differences between flying a flight instrument simulator on your home computer and flying the real deal are:

In a simulator, you cannot feel turbulence, wind shear, or G-forces. Obviously, if you are banking, climbing, or descending, your seat won't move.

A simulator aircraft's engines are definitely not as noisy as those on an actual aircraft!

If you crash your plane in a simulator, you will not get injured!
Aside from these 3 differences, all other aspects of the simulator experience are practically identical. Even the virtual "world" in the simulator is realistic. Airports and major landmarks are all integrated into the simulator. Distances traversed across the simulator world correspond to those of the real world. If it takes you six hours to fly a single engine Cessna plane from Chicago to Newark in the real world, for example, it will take six hours to make the same trip in the flight instrument simulator.

With all of the sophistication in computer software engineering technology that we have available in this day and age, in the twenty-first century, one of the greatest and most essential tools that every pilot, regardless of whether he or she is a novice pilot or an ace pilot, must have at his or her disposal, is a good flight simulation program.

A flight simulation program can help to bridge the gap during those inevitable periods of extended downtime between flights.

It can even empower you to build on your skills, help you maintain proficiency, and can even allow you to earn some additional practice in those areas in which you could see some improvement.

Flight simulators can help you become a safer pilot.

They can even help you save money, as well as time, on unnecessary training or unnecessarily having to repeat performing the same practice maneuvers over and over again.

The good news is, flight simulation software technology is so sophisticated, that operating a simulator is practically every bit as realistic as operating the real deal. The instrument panel is identical. The control inputs are the same. The geographic "map" built into the simulation is based on real world cartographic data points. The way the aircraft behaves to various internal (weight and balance, fuel, aircraft performance) as well as external (weather phenomena, air temperature) forces is designed to mimic real world scenarios.

For a number of people, a flight simulation program is simply a really high-tech video game. And on many levels, it can be enjoyed at that level. After all, you never have to be fearful of crashing the plane in a simulator!

But for many others, a flight simulation program is a serious learning tool, and for counltess professional pilots, it is fundamental part of their aviation career.

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