Maurus
The Great Gazoo
Well I think flight simulator has an auto-logging feature. Now try and explain to me why someone would want to sit in front of a computer for 5000 hours flying a fake airplane around.
Please monitor guard whenever you are able.
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Well I think flight simulator has an auto-logging feature. Now try and explain to me why someone would want to sit in front of a computer for 5000 hours flying a fake airplane around.
granlistillo
Well-Known Member
All ours too, normal switch was set to monitor guard. IIRC both Victor and uniform (243.0 for those who haven't used UHF)
granlistillo
Well-Known Member
My 12 yr old has been using my old plates and setting up the the fms/avionics and flying perfect approaches on MSFS for 2 years. I tried to hand fly the thing and it wasn't pretty. He does the virtual airlines thing too. I guess it makes sense if you are 12, but there are a lot of adults that get into to it to.
I guess it is the old work vs fun explanation, when one is not compelled to do something. It can be a PITA, but heck they just had a drug bust at his middle school- so I will take year round soccer, MSFS and harangue him about his homework.
MFT1Air
Mfalme Soleimani
I don't think they "log" it per se, but for the fantasy flyers, they do put a whole lotta hours on the computer flying the simulator. For years, I listened to one of my co-workers regularly talk about the multiple aircraft he flew on flight simulator to the various locations in the world. Finally, I'd had enough. . .doing an extended lunch, I actually paid for two hours of flight time at one of the local airports. He actually did quite well with an instructor after his fourth/fifth actual landing. He was estatic. Because of funds/family, he's probably up to 20 hours, but the experience of flying was and continues to be awesome to him. . . and if he can't fly the real thing, the simulator, for him, is the next best thing. If you're hooked REALLY to something you enjoy, I can't knock the joy he experiences.
spasekace
WHOligan
I have a friend/coworker who flies a jet at work and a Mig fighter at home for fun. As long as they're having fun, to each their own I guess. Personally, the last thing I want to do is MSFS when I get home.
I do think there is some value in flying Xplane/MSFS before starting flight training to familiarize yourself with the environment, procedures etc... before you're paying big $. The latest versions of those programs are quite good if used as procedures trainers. Several hundreds of $ invested in a Saitek setup with all the components will get you a pretty good home sim which (having seen and played with one) can teach the new, aspiring pilot quite a bit.
But 5000 hours, if real, just means you're a :bandit: who likes airplanes.
I do think there is some value in flying Xplane/MSFS before starting flight training to familiarize yourself with the environment, procedures etc... before you're paying big $. The latest versions of those programs are quite good if used as procedures trainers. Several hundreds of $ invested in a Saitek setup with all the components will get you a pretty good home sim which (having seen and played with one) can teach the new, aspiring pilot quite a bit.
But 5000 hours, if real, just means you're a :bandit: who likes airplanes.
You still have to select and de-select it, if its the same radio Im thinking of. Reason it usually isn't *always* on is if you have an active URT-33 beacon thats comm-jamming Guard, you want the ability to de-select it.
mhcasey
Well-Known Member
That's correct - in both jets guard could be turned off but was left on 99.9% of the time. I never made it out of the realm of light singles as a civilian, but I never saw anything equivalent and with the fancy gadgets in a lot of new civilian aircraft I figured that maybe the same feature was included.
BeRich
Very Special Agent
I don't have a problem with the sims themselves, as they're fun (ish) and cheap, so it's the next best thing if you can't fly for whatever reason. But 5,000 hours? Get a job paying $10, and you have more than enough for all your ratings. And my main point was logging it...really? Who cares how much time you put into it?
You're right. The civilian radios that I've used too didn't have a feature where you can always monitor guard while T/R'ing on another freq (and with the ability to switch directly to Guard in order to transmit on it, vice having to manually dial in the Guard Freq). I've seen nothing like that myself, and agree it'd be very useful.
Autothrust Blue
“If you jump on my shift, that’s just rude, man.”
I wonder if this happens more with URET vice flight progress strips. Seems to me the checkin would be something you'd mark a box on a strip for, although IANA ATC, so...
///AMG
Well-Known Member
eeeeeerrrrrtttttttttttttt.......(sound effects of record coming to a screetching stop). Did you just call the T-6 a "jet"? Freaking AF guys lol
