Us daft flight simmers!!

[Neil Gardner]

I just thought that I would offer a few fruits of my reflections on what a plonker I can be. I started my love affair with flight simulation with Microsoft Flight Sim 2002. Through 2004 and FSX, as many of you will know, the level of sophistication improve rapidly and with addon’s from the likes of PMDG the realism of PC flight simulation would reach once unimaginable heights. And that’s what I would go for time and again, greater and greater realism and sophistication. I’ve spent far more money than I’d be comfortable with my wife knowing about and the prices have gone up considerably in recent years. But the really daft thing is that I’m obsessive about realism, buying model after model of the like, the more real the better. But here there arises a certain failure of logic. The more sophisticated they get the more time it takes to learn to use them, between DCS, P3D and FSX I have accumulated more aircraft than British Airways, I want every one of the most sophisticated models I can get my mits on, but I also want to use them fully. So how on earth do I expect to master them all? Headng closer and closer to the real thing how on earth can I expect to find them to be easier and quicker to pick up than real aircrew? I must confess it seems to me that much of my manic buying may end up going to waste, but will that stop me? I very much doubt it.

[Hawkeye60]

I feel your pain.

It is a dam dilemma!

 

I have expressed a similar complaint!

If you find a solution, Please do tell!

See here,

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=173366&highlight=aircraft

[Mr_sukebe]

The answer, retirement. It's safer than golf.

[Hawkeye60]

The voice of experience talking?

 

Including the golf thing, Now I.m wondering.......

[Mr_sukebe]

The voice of experience talking?

 

Including the golf thing, Now I.m wondering.......

 

No to both, but it's not a million miles away.

[Yurgon]

I know exactly what you mean. :music_whistling:

 

So far, my recipe has been: buy them, try them, and then return to the A-10C. Works pretty well so far. ;)

 

But seriously. While I love DCS for the array of modules that is available today, I feel that there are few modules that I would consider complete, and even these have long known deviations from RL (I would never have noticed myself, but that have been documented on the forum).

 

First flights in new modules are great and all, getting to know them and their flight behavior is just amazing. But at the end of the day, I picked less than a hand full of modules to dedicate my time to. So far I'm pretty happy about that choice.

 

Damn F/A-18 and F-14 are probably going to screw up this wonderful world of simplicity. :smartass:

[VZ_342]

It takes actual military pilots years to achieve a practical level of skill...knowing this I can't imagine getting the entire inventory of DCS in the hopes of learning them all...which is one of the reasons I'd like to see an FC3 version of all aircraft, so they can be experienced without re-learning entire cockpit switch settings:

 

(Insert ST:TWOK gif, "Override! Where's the override!?" frantic search for the switch)

 

My plan for enjoying DCS is to learn to excellence one airframe (currently the SU-25 and -25T) and learn how to takeoff, navigate, and land others as the whim strikes me.

 

:prop:

 

Re: waiting until retirement...Keep in mind there are a few annoying bodily changes to most people as they age...eyesight fails, reaction times slow, bladder needs attention more often...the younger you are, the better chance you have of learning new things quickly.

[Neil Gardner]

At 52 I’m thankfully still very well if you don’t count numerous chemicals that stop me lapsing into yet another bout of depression and anxiety. But having reached middle age I feel my mortality and have often wondered whether my hobbies might become so interfered with by faculties failing from age. I read on this forum of some poor chap finding this to be the case. And then keeping up with the technicalities of sophisticated models should become even more difficult. However, that said, I am an academic so I work with my mind and obviously depend upon its good functioning. The thought of various forms of dementia is fairly terrifying. But short of that my understanding has always been that the mind changes rather than fails. It becomes better at the retention in long term memory, not so good at retaining short term information so you do need to work a bit harder to ensure that information is hardwired, but your mind may still be pretty dexterous. A relatively common assumption amoungst people I know in the academic disciplines is that the mind will remain fit for as long as it remains well exercised. As for body; well, I’m afraid I’ve put on allot of weight in the last few years and must get rid of that and excercise to have a better chance of surviving with good quality of life I guess. PS its interesting how many flight simmers are of ‘more mature’ years isn’t it?

Edited April 4, 2018 by Neil Gardner

[Yurgon]

which is one of the reasons I'd like to see an FC3 version of all aircraft, so they can be experienced without re-learning entire cockpit switch settings:

 

There's no Kobayashi-Maru'ing your way out of learning the full fidelity modules, I'm afraid. :smartass: