5 Apr
1999
5 Apr
'99
10:51 p.m.
Computer Room Internet Cafe wrote:
With all due respect, IMHO, simulators that are not
mounted on big hydraulic
jacks and convince you that you are in a real aeroplane are not much chop
for anything except perhaps teaching instrument flying, and fairly limited
in that area.
Even those have their limitations. The C5A simulator I used to
service wouldn't tilt past 25 or so degrees from horizontal, so
there was no way to practice a barrel roll. (Yeah, the computer
flight sims will let you do that, but they don't teach you how to
think with all of your heart's blood pressing on your brain).
I'll admit I'm not the engineer to build a decent _large_
aircraft simulator to give that experience -- part of the deal in
the C5A simulator was the fact that it was a rather large object
with a bunch of people in the cabin, hard to make that realistic
sticking the pilot (or navigator or flight engineer) in a closet.
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