David Megginson writes: > It's actually fairly easy when you're being vectored -- ATC says "turn > left to 160" and you turn left to 160; ATC says "not below 2000 feet" > and you descend to 2000; etc. > > The hard part is when they put you on your own: "cleared to the > Gatineau airport for an approach", "cleared to the full procedure NDB > 07 Ottawa", and so on -- now you have to figure out your own > transitions, entry patterns, altitude restrictions, and so on, all the > while not forgetting to keep the dirty side of the plane facing down.
It also sounds like another big portion of the training is learning how the instruments work at a very detailed level. This gives you an understanding of the types of sensing errors you might see and under what circumstances. It also gives you a good idea of what sorts of failures you might encounter which helps you spot the failures earlier, understand what system has failed, and then know what steps you can take to either correct the situation or know which remaining instruments you can still depend on. And since you can't put your plane on pause like a sim, you have to practice practice practice so you know all this stuff at a pretty intuitive level. So should I add a claim to our home page that 100% of people using FlightGear as part of their IFR training have passed their test on the first try? Or let's see we could flip that around and say if you are smart enough to pass your IFR test on the first try, you will know enough to use FlightGear as part of your training. :-) Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
