DOES FLYING SIMULATORS HELP YOU BECOME A PILOT?
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I Wanted to raise the question if the flight or air traffic simulators help improve aviation knowledge and could it benefit you in becoming a pilot?
for example, there's this game I've discovered called (snip, -mod edit), its basically air traffic control simulator. i've linked the trailer below, let me know your thoughts:
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http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/i-was-a-victim-too-says-author-whose-flight-school-trained-911-terrorists/1187734 (here, two of the perpetrators bought the software for supposed training.
Please get proper, hands-on training if you're planning to fly any air vehicles.
Similar thing in a military infantry context with ArmA / VBS.
That, and:
But yes, they do help you learn how to fly. I was lucky enough to get my private pilot's license, and there is definitely a correlation. Microsoft Flight Simulator will help you practice the systems, and combat sims like IL-2 1946 will help you learn how to control the airplane. Flying a World War 2 fighter in a sim is about the same level of difficulty as flying a real trainer, IMO.
I would like to become a pilot and have over 800 hours in a sim with complex aircraft with every failure implemented you could think of.
You can learn how to fly nearly 100% by yourself, there are many people that could be tossed into a real 737 and start it from cold and land it 1000 miles away and also talk to ATC because they taught themselves how to fly.
The problem is regulation as with anything else. Regulation is what prohibits people from flying and to get certified it costs 10's of thousands of dollars (I said screw it because of this). So yes you could learn it, and turn the education into hands on in the real world and the learning curve would only be stress and physically handling the aircraft or ATC controls.