Do sim pilots log their time?

karl gruber wrote:
My old instrument instructor, who flew water bombers for fun, liked to
say.................Yes you can log sim time. You SUBTRACT it from your
logbook.

The worse the weather the better to him. No day flights and we never needed
a hood. God bless his soul, he used to say, "God hates cowards," and then
we'd launch.

*** My old CFII Bob was pretty brave, too. We'd be bouncing along in
the clouds
and I'd say

"Get a load of this turbulence!"

"What turbulence?"

or

"Yeee - HAH"

or

"Rock-n-roll!"

I really miss him - would like to show him how good I'm getting at
"turbulence tolerance" - but he flew a Baron into a mountaintop a year
and a half ago.

Maybe it's true what they say about old pilots and bold pilots?

- Jerry "Chicken pilot" Kaidor

writes:

*** My old CFII Bob was pretty brave, too. We'd be bouncing along in
the clouds
and I'd say

"Get a load of this turbulence!"

"What turbulence?"

or

"Yeee - HAH"

or

"Rock-n-roll!"

I really miss him - would like to show him how good I'm getting at
"turbulence tolerance" - but he flew a Baron into a mountaintop a year
and a half ago.

Are you sure it was bravery?

Maybe it's true what they say about old pilots and bold pilots?

"Don't be a show-off. Never be too proud to turn back. There are old
pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots."

-- E. Hamilton Lee, 1949

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Instrument Rated pilots don't land on the gauges, they use visual
reference.

I am one who supports practicing, with a safety pilot of course, flying
an ILS all the way to touchdown a couple of times a year (you know the
drill -- start backing off throttle at the MM, give up on glide slope,
keep the localizer centered, feel ground effect, flare and touch down).
Don't do it in a crosswind. Knowing you can gives you one more tool
should conditions really turn to crap in real life.



On Nov 23, 4:54 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
Jay Honeck writes:
Yet, even when I downloaded his current aircraft, and set him up at his
home airport, he was not able to land on the runway. The only thing I
can think of is that he apparently flies his real aircraft "by feel"
more than most of us do, and the simulator obviously is lacking in
"feel", since it is not a full-motion sim.Yup. Put him in a full-motion sim, and I'm sure he'll be able to land
effortlessly. Turn off the motion in the full-motion sim, and you'll
probably see the same problems you're seeing in your sim.

Does this pilot ever fly IFR?

It will be interesting to see if the new computer system I've ordered
-- which will help to make the sim experience as realistic as possible
-- helps the situation, or if it's strictly a motion-related problem
that can't be resolved.Instrument-rated pilots apparently resolve it.

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"Watson" wrote in news:4f6db$45652d13
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To whom it may concern:

Do sim pilots log their simulator time? Is so, why?

Possible answers:

To show simulated currency.
In furtherance of a simulated rating.
To prove to the simulated FAA that simulated flying happened.


I am a real pilot, and not a sim pilot, but the answer is quite obvious.

I can tell you unequivocably that all sim pilots must sim-log their sim-
time.

Sim-logging sim-time enhances simulated flight safety.

The SNTSB (aka sim-NTSB) statistics show that any sim pilot who doesn't
sim-log his sim-time will instantly suffer certain sim-death. Sim-mortality
rates for sim pilots who sim-log their sim-time is substantially lower.
Additionally, a large proportion of sim pilots who do sim-log their sim-
time have sim-accidents when they upgrade from one version of MSFS to
another...

Of course, I won't actually give you a link to a source, because it should
be as common sense to all real pilots, as it is to me.

or if it's strictly a motion-related problem
that can't be resolved.

I'm betting that.

Jose
--
"There are 3 secrets to the perfect landing. Unfortunately, nobody knows
what they are." - (mike).
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I can tell you unequivocably that all sim pilots must sim-log their sim-
time.

This bears a certain sim-ilarity to sim-body we are familiar with, but I
am sim-pathetic to the idea, as it can sim-ply save me a lot of sim-olians.

Jose
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"There are 3 secrets to the perfect landing. Unfortunately, nobody knows
what they are." - (mike).
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Tony writes:

Instrument Rated pilots don't land on the gauges, they use visual
reference.

What is Category III c?

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Mxsmanic wrote:

Tony writes:


Instrument Rated pilots don't land on the gauges, they use visual
reference.


What is Category III c?




Not relavant to this newsgroup. And even if it was a pilot isn't
landing a Cat 3c airplane, the computer is.

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*** My old CFII Bob was pretty brave, too. We'd be bouncing along in
the clouds
and I'd say

"Get a load of this turbulence!"

"What turbulence?"

or

"Yeee - HAH"

or

"Rock-n-roll!"

I really miss him - would like to show him how good I'm getting at
"turbulence tolerance" - but he flew a Baron into a mountaintop a year
and a half ago.

Maybe it's true what they say about old pilots and bold pilots?

- Jerry "Chicken pilot" Kaidor


I was flying back from New York with another pilot. It was a little bumpy,
but nothing bad. I asked if he wanted to fly, and he said no. He asked "Why
don't you use turn on the auto-pilot?". I replied "I just tried - you said
NO".

"Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea Hawk at wow way d0t com wrote in message
news:gIGdnT1uOcTkcPjYnZ2dnUVZ_uSdnZ2d@wideopenwest .com...

How can you tell? I mean, if you end up on the simulated runway and you
don't get the simulated cracks in the simulated windshield acompanied by
the simulated crashing sound, you know you didn't simulate wrecking a
simulated airplane, but beyond that???

I always got the simulated cracks in the simulted windshield. I think I
'landed' successfully once. The last version I used was 98 (I think). It ran
on Windows 95. No sound.