Flight Simulators

I am wondering if anyone playes flight simulators and how long the learning curve is. They look like fun and I'm willing to blow $150+ for a Saitek X52 Flight Control System and Microsoft Flight Simulator X.

 

I play Flight Sim 2004. It's quite easy to learn actually, but the thing that I have problem grasping is VOR navigation systems. I prefer to use the GPS system to take care of my heading rather than mess around with the VOR.

To fly a jet airliner it takes quite a while to fly it properly with the correct takeoff/landing procedures.

 

do u by any chance mean combat flight sims?

 

No, he's talking about Flight Sim X, which is the next version. 2004 is actually version 9.

 

Oh, oops. Totally missed that part... Well I only like combat flight sims

 

How realistic is flightsim 2004, because I kinda want to be a pilot as my career. I know its not like fliging a real plane but something is better than nothing. And another question, how do you straft the plane. I most arcade games about flying have a left and right pedal. thanks in advance

 

A mates dad is an airline pilot and he loved the Flight Simulators so they cant be too bad when it comes to realism. Though saying that you can dive bomb 747's easy enough! :0

 

Straft? Do you mean yaw? With pedals, (if you buy them with a joystick) you alter the rudder on the tail of the plane, causing it to yaw one way and another. Used in conjunction with banking the plane to the left or right, minimum stress is put on the fuselage as it turns while being balanced at the same time.

A career as a pilot will take many thousands of hours of airtime experience, as well as lots, and lots of money.

 

Yeah, God knows how people do it.
The RAF recruit pilots up to the age of 23, and you only need 2 A-levels! You just have to fight off the other few thousand people who apply! No guarantee your gonna fly planes either.
I think the Army recriut trainee pilots to 24, but im not sure. But I dont think the army have planes?

 

The army is in charge of all helicopter gunships. In the US Army, for instance, that includes the infamous Apaches. That must be what their pilot recruits are almost exclusively for. Aside from that, perhaps the army also employs a few aircraft for things like transporting soldiers/supplies.

 

Ya i mean yaw. I just didn’t want to confuse anyone and the term strafe means the same thing as what I meant. Does anyone like pie?:dry:

 

anyone play x-plane or flightgear? those two look like fun