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I just sampled some of the lectures, and it looks as if there's a lot of good info there, pretty well done, as you might expect from an MIT class. These are recorded lectures done in front of an...

Not having that sim, it's not clear to me whether the standard C-172 is glass or round dial, because if it's round dial then there's likely a needle rather than a white or green diamond.


That...

A point of terminology, Neil: The ILS has a localizer and it has a glide slope (vertical guidance, of course), but the localizer is strictly for horizontal guidance and has no glide slope. Also, were...

I don't know about MSFS 2020, since I don't have it, and I don't have Australian charts, but a real world chart should not show a VOR if one doesn't exist. But it still would have to have you tune...

Actually, they should -- here's why:

A TACAN doesn't use 110.7 or any of the other freqs on which you find VORs. Being a military device it operates at much higher frequencies. However civilians...

A friend and I had a problem like that with some FSX aircraft some years ago. He spent quite a while experimenting with the engine/prop parameters in the .air and .cfg files and finally cured it. I...

Yes, you're right Neil. You have to have the nav receiver selected on the audio panel AND you must have the button on the radio itself pressed.

Yes John, your experience with altitude is because...

I have to agree with nsproles:


You also didn't mention the state of the TO/FROM flag. You can very quickly check whether the VOR is receiving a signal by rotating the OBS and noting the needle...

Yes, except on many older (probably pre-1980) aircraft, where it used to almost always be MPH (in the U.S. at least). There was a period when MPH was the outside and larger scale on the ASI and knots...

Yes, glider training/experience can teach you a lot, both in aircraft handling and in "microweather," the effects of heating, wind, etc. on the movement of air, and how it relates to lift, sink,...

Under those conditions there certainly would be a huge difference. At 1,000 MSL and 60º F the figures would be MUCH closer; Thanks for getting actual numbers. Not having FS2020 I couldn't check those.

Duh.. :o

It certainly is a possible answer, depending on the altitude and temperature. Under some conditions (low altitude, low temp) the two would be close, while at higher altitudes in summer...

No biggie...

Did you read my post above?

If you are flying IFR (which you are if you're shooting an ILS approach, in the real world) then you want a means of navigation. ATC won't navigate for you -- those folks are often WAY too busy for...

Multiply knots by 1.15 to get mph, or divide mph by 1.15 to get knots. For me it's easy to recall that 100 kts is 115 mph, or mph is 15 more per 100. And yes, the measurement system came from the...

130 knots is 150 MPH -- that might be the difference.

Are you talking about real world aircraft? The Cessna 150/152, Cessna 172, Piper Warrior and Archer are probably the most common trainers today, but many aspects of your training could be enhanced by...

I can't give you a precise answer, but compatibility mode is there for things that were done (software wise) in a different fashion than in the current Windows, so evidently something (perhaps...

One thing to note about Stick And Rudder is that it is even more effective after taking a real flight or two, since you don't feel some of the things he's talking about when in a non-motion...

Nicely said. In real aviation it's best to have a backup for most anything, and that includes for when electronics fail (sooner or later, Murphy awaits).

I don't think so. I don't fly these myself, but I have a friend who does, even used to teach in an airline simulator (I was lucky enough to get some time in it), and the 757 and 767 use the same full...

Being a trim WHEEL, I suspect it's an axis, rather than a button or keyboard control, just as a stick/yoke and a rudder are axes.

Actually, if he's not changed the GPS setting, it's doing almost what you describe, trying to get back to the original course, ("it wants to set course back to the line from the departure to the...

Hmmm... then you should perhaps make some aircraft or sceneries and freely distribute them? Are you saying that people who put hundreds of hours (more in many cases) into designing an add-on should...