Home based flight simulators are becoming incredibly realistic and enjoyable. You can accurately re-create what it is like to fly large commercial airliners on intercontinental flights, or simply fly short hops between your favourite destinations. You can converse with life like traffic controllers, test your skills with in-flight emergencies or even push the boundaries by landing in weather far below legal minimums.
Achieving this level of realism requires the best flight simulator setup possible on your home PC. Some people will spend thousands setting up a replica cockpit in their garage while others will install a variety of hardware additions onto their desk. These basic additions generally involve a yoke, rudder pedals and a throttle quadrant.
There is a lot to learn when first embarking on a home simulator setup. Not only do you need to properly configure your PC for optimum performance. But you need to also learn how to read flying charts and more importantly how to fly the aircraft of your choice. Once you have a good understanding of the basics, the rewards for successfully completing a flight are fantastic.
Once you have learned the fundamentals of piloting an aircraft, you can try adding some extra realism to create more of a challenge for yourself. You can purchase more in-depth aircraft with generally more involved systems and realism. Third party aircraft will behave more realistically when affected by weather and will also require more knowledge about instrument systems to handle them correctly.
Carrying out an ILS approach correctly is an intensely difficult and challenging part of any type of flying, both simulated and real. The work load to correctly land an aircraft under these conditions is massive and requires you to be well prepared in advance for the approach. To carry out an ILS approach you will need the correct approach plates and terminal charts. These give you guidelines about altitude, course and mimimum visual requirements.
Having strong wind gusts or extremely low visibility will make this challenge even harder, once you descent through the cloud base you could find you are not lined up quite right with the runway, in this situation a crosswind adds to the difficulty of carrying out a successful landing, however completing this is very rewarding.
Achieving this level of realism requires the best flight simulator setup possible on your home PC. Some people will spend thousands setting up a replica cockpit in their garage while others will install a variety of hardware additions onto their desk. These basic additions generally involve a yoke, rudder pedals and a throttle quadrant.
There is a lot to learn when first embarking on a home simulator setup. Not only do you need to properly configure your PC for optimum performance. But you need to also learn how to read flying charts and more importantly how to fly the aircraft of your choice. Once you have a good understanding of the basics, the rewards for successfully completing a flight are fantastic.
Once you have learned the fundamentals of piloting an aircraft, you can try adding some extra realism to create more of a challenge for yourself. You can purchase more in-depth aircraft with generally more involved systems and realism. Third party aircraft will behave more realistically when affected by weather and will also require more knowledge about instrument systems to handle them correctly.
Carrying out an ILS approach correctly is an intensely difficult and challenging part of any type of flying, both simulated and real. The work load to correctly land an aircraft under these conditions is massive and requires you to be well prepared in advance for the approach. To carry out an ILS approach you will need the correct approach plates and terminal charts. These give you guidelines about altitude, course and mimimum visual requirements.
Having strong wind gusts or extremely low visibility will make this challenge even harder, once you descent through the cloud base you could find you are not lined up quite right with the runway, in this situation a crosswind adds to the difficulty of carrying out a successful landing, however completing this is very rewarding.
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