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Saturday, July 14, 2012

True to Life Flight Simulators

By Pete Harris


For the past few decades people have been playing airplane games. Over this time the technology has drastically improved. Today you can be the pilot of almost any airplane you can think of, right in the comfort of your own home. You are able to experience the real life challenges that professional pilots experience daily in their routine work. Modern flight simulators have transported players into realistic situations, combined with great graphics and a variety of flight models.

You can find yourself behind the cockpit of hundreds of aircraft. You can experience the same challenges that pilots face every day. One of the best things about these simulators is their ability to really make you think about piloting in the real word. You have to master the same skills a pilots to learn how to navigate, handle crosswinds, ILS approaches, amongst others. The hours of entertainment are endless.

The best flight simulators will provide these challenges in spades. A good simulator will offer you almost life like experiences. They will be able to demonstrate to you exactly what it is like to pilot the actual aircraft in real life. These top end simulators are basically as close as it gets to having control over a real airplane, without putting yourself or anyone else at risk.

Modern airplane games require reasonably quick computers to run properly. They will take up large amounts of disk space and use a lot of memory to run. The higher the realism settings, especially graphics, the higher the computer specifications required to run it. A flight simulator must run smoothly to feel realistic. This may mean that you have to sacrifice scenery to ensure that the graphics can run at an acceptable frame-rate.

Flight simulators are used extensively throughout pilot training. This is because they provide a safe environment which is both realistic and cheap in comparison to real aircraft training. Simulators typically provide an IFR (instrument flight rules) environment whereby pilots can repeatedly practise difficult procedures. Modern aircraft simulators, both home-based and professional, can now also provide realistic graphics. This acts to enhance the overall experience.

Ensure you get some good advice about what to purchase and how to setup it up before embarking on a home simulator project. Whether you are just adding hardware to a home desktop computer, or recreating a cockpit that is true to life, you will need a good resource of information and support to complete the project.




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