On 5/16/2018 9:35 AM, lrffrench via KRnet wrote:
Sorry Stef, I sent this to the wrong group. The simulator is in Spicewood,
texas. And is nice. But probably not near you.CheersReneN202LP
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I'm inclined to think there is no simulator in the world that will
prepare you to fly a KR. Not that flying a KR is difficult, it's not.
In fact it is quite easy. It's just that there is no simulator
that is realistic enough to prepare you for the real thing. This past
Monday evening our EAA chapter was able to enjoy the flight simulators
at the local university flight training center.
There were two C172's with glass panels, a monster CRJ with full motion
video and a small trainer for crosswind training. The motion video in
the CRJ could have you reaching for a barf bag in 30 seconds. Anyway,
these simulators do not duplicate the real life stick and rudder
reactions and feedback that a real aircraft does, no matter how many
hundreds of thousands of dollars they cost. They are good for procedure
training but not stick and rudder. I put the CRJ in to a KR turn and it
started yelling "bank angle"="bank angle"="bank angle".............. I
guess the software engineers had never flown a KR.:-)
Spend the hours you would spend on a simulator and get some time in a
Citabria or RV and everything will work out.
Larry Flesner
P.S. I scored 900 out of a possible 1000 on my first "crosswind
trainer" landing. I quit on that rather than embarrass myself by trying
again.
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