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Originally Posted by nearmiss
I didn't see anything about navs or approach charts or the ability to fly them as per real world in the sim. I didn't see anything about route traces or flight plans.
A flight simulator must have those items as required, along with on-the-fly weather changes, and emergency procedures.
Fully working gauges doesn't mean you can fly cross country at night on navs and make a precision approach.
The photo scenery looks good, but the MSFT FSX at night on IFR (instruments) is excellent. I've never realized much value in VFR flying in a flight simulator.
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Some days I go to the airport and open an IFR flight plan and sit there staring at the gauges for hours on end...other days I go to the airport, crank over that big engine in the little Pitts and remember what it is I live for! It takes me places nothing else does, and I land at the same airport I took off from most of the time....there's a lot more to flight than procedures. (You know that I think). I agree about the "utility" aspects of a sim being primarily for procedures, but that's largely because none have a good enough FM or physical interface to make that side of things much of a training aid. Not to mention that there isn't a lot of "utility" in anything the Pitts, Extra, Su-26, or Edge does...that's not what they are for...they are for gluing a ginormous smile across your face for days or months after you fly them!
It's clearly the absolute best looking Pitts recreation ever (I just wish they had an S-2S and an S-2C) but I really must sample the physics!