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Skybird · 03-03-11, 07:00 AM

Feel of flying you cannot get from staring at a monitor. But you can study and learn the way complex instruments are meant to work and present their information, and you can learn to make sense of what you read on the instruments. You can also learn to navigate and fly by instruments. On flying, you can at least get a theoretic understanding of what the plane will do and behave like if you do this or that with the stick and pedals (for example slipstreaming and crosswind landing).

In other words a simulation can be a wonderful animated illustration of what the theory book tries to explain in many abstract words. Seeing is believing, and a single animation can say so much more than a hundred pages.

03-03-11, 07:00 AM	#5
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,666 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Feel of flying you cannot get from staring at a monitor. But you can study and learn the way complex instruments are meant to work and present their information, and you can learn to make sense of what you read on the instruments. You can also learn to navigate and fly by instruments. On flying, you can at least get a theoretic understanding of what the plane will do and behave like if you do this or that with the stick and pedals (for example slipstreaming and crosswind landing). In other words a simulation can be a wonderful animated illustration of what the theory book tries to explain in many abstract words. Seeing is believing, and a single animation can say so much more than a hundred pages. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.