If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#1
|
|||
|
|||
*********A DEFENCE FOR MXMORAN***********
"Ibby" wrote in message ... *********************************** You might as well give it up with this person, too. It is more likely that you will have a real 747 qualified pilot on board, than you would likely find a simmer with the kind of "practiced" on the 747. This one will never concede, either. -- Jim in NC Jim Believe me I'm nowhere near as bad as MX!!! Are you saying that all that I have learnt and 'practiced' bears no correlation to the systems and controls of a real 747-400 because it does. I have watched a lot of real tutorial dvds (not talking about little flyby clips on Youtube, but official licensed products on the 747 and 767 flightdecks). The position and behavior of EVERY switch whether it on the overhead panel, radio panel, Mode Control Panel, the glass cockpit, the FMC do EXACTLY as the real thing does. I know if I press 'this' the aircraft will do 'that'. A full procedural checklist MUST be followed (as per the real thing) for engine start including APU, ground power, setting pumps to Aux and Auto, turning off packs etc I know for FACT that if I was to sit down in a 747-400 flightdeck (forgetting all this emergency landing issue) I could name a huge majority of the switches, tell you where they are located and the effect they have on the flight thus giving me some form of advantage to that of a person who has never been on a flight deck OR used a simulator/game. I have openly stated it's a training aid and can successfully compliment flight training for procedures and navigation flight planning etc. I know it's not the be-all-and-end all tool that will give you a PPL after a weeks use which is were MX falls short off. I know there is a LOT more to learn about the dynamics of flight, weather systems, regulations etc etc. I know alot of real life pilots who use it and some are actually prominant members on this forum (but keep quite), there are those with PPL's, instructors, a retired A320 captain and a retired Gulf War veteran who flew rotaries in the Gulf. When I took my first flying lesson I felt I could have solo'd, laugh as you may, but the controls, throttle, pitching, descending, straight and level flight, torque effects of the prop had ALL been experienced by me in the sim so I already knew how to compensate for them. I was turning to certain bearings, climbing/descending to set altitudes, trimming the aircraft, maintaining set speeds - ALL on my first lesson and ALL picked up entirely from the sim. As I've already said we all need real lessons too but the sim CAN help as it has already done for me. Ibby -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Really, and how was your landing? |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Apology re mxsmanic | terry | Piloting | 96 | February 16th 08 05:17 PM |
Mxsmanic : Your results are in | Mayo Clinic | Piloting | 13 | May 24th 07 02:01 PM |
I saw Mxsmanic on TV | Clear Prop | Piloting | 8 | February 14th 07 01:18 AM |
Mxsmanic | gwengler | Piloting | 30 | January 11th 07 03:42 AM |
Getting rid of MXSMANIC | [email protected] | Piloting | 33 | December 8th 06 11:26 PM |