Any Flight Simmers ?

[J4CKO]

red_slr said:

J4CKO said:

why would filling in the FMC be pointless in VR ?

You have to stare at the button you want to press then a little blue dot appears then you press your primary action button... then stare at the next..... etc etc. Keying in a long string of commands takes forever and that's not what VR is about. You can use the mouse but IME its also very hard to see what you are doing unless you move around and that's also not much fun, the SDE does play a part.

VR is about flying around in an F16 inverted through the grand canyon at 400kts

The main issue with VR and airliners is the number of switches and levers etc you need to pull and configure. Just changing heading or speed can be a PITA.

However hand flying is a lot of fun especially on simple aircraft.

Makes sense now you explain it !

DId a bit more tonight, managed my first ILS landing, only problem was I came in a bit fast, about 100 kts too fast as it happens but it followed the Glide Slope and Localizer perfectly, the plane (a 747 400 ) is now parked somewhere in Gatley (A suburb in South Manchester)

[red_slr]

If you are doing EGCC flights you might want to have a look over this

http://www.fly-sea.com/charts/EGCC.pdf

[LimaDelta]

red_slr said:

If you are doing EGCC flights you might want to have a look over this

http://www.fly-sea.com/charts/EGCC.pdf

Or just use the real AIPs here

[red_slr]

oh well yeah I guess that might be sufficient.

[LimaDelta]

red_slr said:

oh well yeah I guess that might be sufficient.

Realism to the nth degree.