Do racing games negatively affect driving habits?

Penguin · 03-02-11, 06:22 PM

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I do think that a person who plays a great deal of call of duty or Silent Hunter 3 for example - might be much more inclined to join the Army or the Navy than a person who does not play such games.

I wanted to join the Kriegsmarine after playing SH3, but they told me that the application deadline ended in May 1945

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Playing Silent Hunter 3 and becoming interested in the history of the war in the Atlantic has caused me to read half a dozen books on the subject that i otherwise might have skipped over in the book store without the influence of the subsim genre. Therefore, in some way - i was influenced by the simulation.

This is also true for me, before SH3 I had no special interest in submarines, though always in WW2. Now I have many books on the subject in my shelf - still not enough

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Additionally; Though i had always been interested in airplanes, i had my career sights firmly set on being an architect - had my father not purchased Microsoft Flight Simulator for me in my early teens... i might not have become a big fan of the MSFS Series and ultimately i may not have chosen aviation as a career path over architecture.

Would you say that playing a flightsim did help you to prepare for your training? Was it easier to learn it, compared to pilots who never played one before? - IF there are pilots who never did so.

GoldenRivet · 03-02-11, 07:28 PM

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Would you say that playing a flightsim did help you to prepare for your training? Was it easier to learn it, compared to pilots who never played one before?

I would say that it did help me. However, I was more aware of how it helped people when i was their instructor and they were the student.

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IF there are pilots who never did so.

Believe it or not, several students of mine had never heard of microsoft flight simulator and were elated to discover that there was something that would allow them to practice at home.

August · 03-02-11, 11:38 PM

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I would say that it did help me. However, I was more aware of how it helped people when i was their instructor and they were the student.

Interesting. How exactly did it help you GR? I've read that sims main benefit is learning checklists and procedures, not so much the "feel" of flying.

GoldenRivet · 03-03-11, 03:20 AM

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Interesting. How exactly did it help you GR? I've read that sims main benefit is learning checklists and procedures, not so much the "feel" of flying.

Familiarity with the concept of flying. Names of the flight instruments, interpretation of their indications, terminology.

Things like that.

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.

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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.