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Russ wrote:

> I found it great for learning instrument stuff. Figuring out how VOR's work,
> how to intercept and track a NDB, practicing hold entries, reviewing
> procedures, etc. 

Dito, and more.

FSim gave me a sort of feel for what to expect from performance or
sudden control movements (although it still ain't _quite_ like the real
thing).

In addition, you can go to the set-up and set the Instrument reliability
to piss-poor (or somewhere in-between) and start learning partial panel,
although you lose single instruments as a result of single failures and
not from systems (i.e., lose the Airspeed Indicator but the rest of the
Pitot-Static system still works). And you can't break the VSI to make
some other more important P-S instrument work again. d:

But for learning IFR and all radio nav., it's hard to beat a good sim.

Cheers-

m w grossmann, PP
