I didn't use a flight sim in 20 years or so. But do they have a library of safety incidents, which you can then replay?
Are you Captain Sully? :)
X-Plane 12 Early Access
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#42Random question but do you people who play flight simulators but never flown a real plane think that if you were on a commercial passenger jet and the pilots became incapacitated that you would be able to take over the controls and land the plane safely?
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#43Random question but do you people who play flight simulators but never flown a real plane think that if you were on a commercial passenger jet and the pilots became incapacitated that you would be able to take over the controls and land the plane safely?
Depends on the plane, weather conditions, air traffic control and the runway. Does the runway support ILS, will ATC help guide you, clear skies & daytime? Probably would work
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#44I didn't use a flight sim in 20 years or so. But do they have a library of safety incidents, which you can then replay?
I'm also curious about this. I love challenging situations in flight sims and it would be fun to replay real scenarios, or even have a tool where you could just set it to randomly pick one or a couple problems off a list and cause them to manifest at some point in the flight. I haven't done much simming recently sadly, WarThunder VR support has been broken for over a year and sadly my CPU isn't strong enough for X-Pl…
X-Plane 11 has the ability to randomly fail equipment with parameters that you give it. It can also save a scenario so all the components already exist for something like this.
Re: X-Plane 12 Early Access
#45Random question but do you people who play flight simulators but never flown a real plane think that if you were on a commercial passenger jet and the pilots became incapacitated that you would be able to take over the controls and land the plane safely?
Maybe if I could get the radio working. After that I've probably played with the autopilot systems enough that I could follow instructions. Such a scenario would most likely happen in a smaller aircraft and I imagine they'd guide me to the largest runway around, and landing a small aircraft on a full size commercial runway probably feels like the runway goes for miles and miles.
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#47I've never used X-Plane or Microsoft Flight Simulator. Can anyone recommend a good $200 (or less) joystick?
any xbox/ps controller
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used MSFS a lot for practising VFR navigation / dead reckoning skills, very helpful for that with how good the scenery is. Not sure I could achieve the same in XPlane
Yeah if you fly VFR in areas you know real-world, it's really helpful to have the photorealistic scenery in MSFS!
It's only photorealistic if you use 10-20m DEM, otherwise any mountainous area just feels completely off and unrecognizable (try to fly over Alps with the default DEM, I couldn't recognize anything around Oberstdorf etc.)
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#49I've never used X-Plane or Microsoft Flight Simulator. Can anyone recommend a good $200 (or less) joystick?
It kinda depends on what kind of aircraft you want to fly. Thrustmaster t16000m is more geared towards military aircrafts. If you want to fly Airbus, TCA Officer Pack Airbus Edition (which under the hood is the t16000m) is very good and works well with FS2020's Airbus A320 (even better with the free FlyByWire A320 mod) If you want to fly general aviation aircrafts, the Logitech Yoke is pretty good. The Honeycomb Avia…
How is the feel of the Honeycomb yoke? The pitch axis on the Logitech is so sketchy especially in the flare. I’m
most flight regimes you can trim away the mechanical imperfections, but in the final bit before touchdown it’s a nuisance.
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#50I've never used X-Plane or Microsoft Flight Simulator. Can anyone recommend a good $200 (or less) joystick?
If you want both a stick and throttle for under $200, you'll likely want the Thrustmaster T.16000M FCS (~$150). If you're willing to add another ~$150 to the budget, I highly recommend the VKB Gladiator NXT EVO with the SCG Premium grip (~$210 with US shipping) and picking up the Thrustmaster TWCS throttle alone (~$130). Either way, the Thrustmaster TWCS throttle does have some stiction and you might want to clean it…
If you're a light player an T.16000m will work but they all die with hardware issues at some point. The matching TWCS throttle has similar issues. I'm a heavy space sim player and went through 2 T16000Ms and 3 TWCSs before switching fully over to VKB sticks.
VKB sticks last longer (no issues after 2+ years heavy use), are repairable and VKB will sell you parts. Much nicer if you can afford it. Take a look at their youtube channel if you are curious about the repairibility. https://www.youtube.com/c/VKBSim