On 23 Nov 2006 09:11:10 -0800, "Jay Honeck" wrote:

Interestingly, even though I personally find the sim experience to be
quite realistic, some of the best sticks I know have great difficulty
landing. One fellow in particular is inexplicably having no luck
landing the sim, despite thousands of hours of flight experience.

He might be more dependent upon peripheral vision when landing, which the sim
won't provide. On many taildraggers, the nose comes up and blots out the view
forward in the flare. I (probably like most pilots) don't like turning my head
during the flare, so I'm left with the "feel" of where I'm at based on my
peripheral vision.

From your description, the Good Stick probably has lots of time in
"barnstormer-like" airplanes where he can't see forward during the last phases
of landing. He might be more used to using peripheral vision.

Strangely enough, though, I can land the MSFS Fly Baby (you DO have it installed
on the Kiwi, right, Jay? :-) without any problems. I might have the "damage
threshold" values set too high. But I did design the panel to arc and provide
just a little view forward on either side during the flare.

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/MSFS/index.html

Ron Wanttaja