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From: "John Alesse" <jja@inforonics.com>
Subject: Re: What can be gained from using MS Flight Simulator.
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:45:02 GMT
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The airplanes have come a long way but the Bell 206 is crap.  First, It's
about 10,000 times harder to fly than the real thing (I've flown the real
thing) Second, the uSoft <wizards> don't seem to understand anything about
torque.  I've flown complete missions with the pedals unplugged! Simulator?
I don't think so.

-JA
>yesterday i flew to a new, difficult airport for the first time.  in
>preparaton, i flew the difficult part of the trip with msfs beforehand.
>in fact, the only thing that i didnt simulate was my adf failing, which it
>did yesterday, and a particular ndb was an important checkpoint in my
>planning.  fortunately, between the landmarks of fs98 and a chart, i was
>able to make do and land.  fs98 helped out great in this regard.. basic
>familiarization with landmarks with respect to navaids and so forth and
>basic trip planning.
>
>
>- adrian
>


