MXSMANIC - The posts don't add up

Neil Gould wrote:

Recently, Mxsmanic posted:

Emily writes:

WTF. And you're going to tell me that's cheaper or easier than
going on an intro flight?

Yes, for total hours flown.

Intro flights are typically well below $100. I don't think you'll get
anywhere near one of those setups for that amount, so the "hours flown" --
time during intro flight vs. the same amount of time in the sim -- would
be outrageously more expensive in the sim. And, at the end of the day,
you'd know a heck of a lot more about flying with the intro flight, so it
seems that the sim is money poorly spent either way if the ultimate goal
is to fly real planes.

$100 in France?

Owen,

$100 in France?


Yes.

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"Richard Riley" wrote in message
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On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:36:43 -0500, Bruce Riggs
wrote:


I would CHOOSE no other state to live, but that's just me.

I love living in California. It's just all those Californians I have
to deal with.

Don't worry they're all moving to Oregon.

Neil Gould writes:

Intro flights are typically well below $100.

I've already logged nearly a hundred hours in my simulated Baron, for
far less money than that.

And, at the end of the day, you'd know a heck of a lot more about
flying with the intro flight ...

I consider it extraordinarily unlikely that I could learn much of
anything during a 30-minute flight, unless I did everything from
taxiing out to taxiing back, plus some other stuff in between.

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Owen writes:

$100 in France?

Multiply everything by three for France.

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On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:05:34 -0700, Sylvain wrote:

but some folks have
no interest in actually flying...

I've no interest in flying. I use my time in 172s and 182s to simulate
computing. I cannot afford a display of the same quality as the view
provided by the simulator simulation, so I must settle for actually going
places.

- Andrew

On 15 Oct 2006 18:10:09 -0700, "Grumman-581"
wrote:

On Oct 13, 6:16 am, John Theune wrote:
He has been posting quite a bit lately and a recurring theme has been he
flys sims because he can't afford to fly planes.

Some of those simmers get pretty ****in' involved in creating a home
sim cockpit... Check this one out:
http://www.goflightinc.com/cgi-bin/i...ct=ST;f=9;t=11

From what I understand, some of these guys are actually running into
the limit of the number of USB devices that can be on a machine...

Minor league compared to some.

You want to see touched, check out http://www.hyway.com.au/747/

Recently, Mxsmanic posted:

Neil Gould writes:

Intro flights are typically well below $100.

I've already logged nearly a hundred hours in my simulated Baron, for
far less money than that.

And it's worth exactly nothing in terms of knowing about flying a Baron.
If you're lucky, you may find where the switches and buttons are; the fact
is that they aren't always in the same place just because the plane is the
same model. But, you'd most likely kill yourself before you got off the
field.

And, at the end of the day, you'd know a heck of a lot more about
flying with the intro flight ...

I consider it extraordinarily unlikely that I could learn much of
anything during a 30-minute flight, unless I did everything from
taxiing out to taxiing back, plus some other stuff in between.

I completely believe that you would learn very little, but that has more
to do with your attitude than the nature of the experience. One expecting
to learn nothing will most likely meet those expectations.

Neil

Andrew Gideon wrote:
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:05:34 -0700, Sylvain wrote:

but some folks have
no interest in actually flying...

I've no interest in flying. I use my time in 172s and 182s to simulate
computing. I cannot afford a display of the same quality as the view
provided by the simulator simulation, so I must settle for actually going
places.

- Andrew

LMAO. What can you use to clean wine off of a notebook screen?

On Oct 15, 8:15 pm, Emily wrote:
WTF. And you're going to tell me that's cheaper or easier than going on
an intro flight?

Probably depends upon what type of plane you want to be simming...
grin How much does an intro flight on a 737 go for?

I stumbled across that web page awhile back while looking for something
else (that's kind of how Google works, I guess)... Of course, it piqued
my interest a bit, so I read some more... Some of these guys are really
into it...

http://www.ch-hangar.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3573