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1. SnowBroker:nv::pondering_orb::njp: (shadowbroker2135@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 08:09:01 JST SnowBroker:nv::pondering_orb::njp:

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   Would you recommend the latest Microsoft Flight simulator? I assume you've played it. Was thinking about using it to get familiar with flying before actually applying to a flight school.
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 08:09:01 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @Shadowbroker2135 Still havent tried it, had it on my work comp but it got deleted in a wipe, haven’t tried it yet. Have a lot of experience w/ xplane, since that was what my last job had in their FTDs. It’s okay but the really good planes are all DLC

     I tried setting up a torrent to finally try msfs but haven’t checked on it, I usually only play with it when I have a new plane or a checkride coming up

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 08:10:45 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @Shadowbroker2135 And I wouldn’t really feel like doing the flight sim thing helps too much, lots of CFIs hate it because retards develop bad habits early on, I usually introduce it after the guy solos and can start applying his new knowledge correctly. Setting random failures is cool and all but the real party is when you link your foreflight w/ it for instrument, then it’s worth a whole lot just in the airtime you save by running it

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 08:17:38 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @Shadowbroker2135 Not to say you can’t teach yourself. One of the best parts of the industry is that the FAA makes our textbooks, and the first few certification exams have VERY detailed criteria in the form of the ACS booklets.

     I’d read the PHAK (pilots handbook of aeronautical knowledge) and probably the airplane flying handbook before starting training. Learning and understanding the physics of flight will help to demystify the plane’s behavior, so you naturally respond w/ the right control inputs. Lots of kids just don’t get the relationship between lift, power, etc. They end up behind the plane, always reacting and vascillating

     https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/phak

     https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/airplane_handbook

     If you know these two back and forth you’ll have a lot easier of a time through commercial and CFII.

     Here’s the whole library, if you wanna see more. Good ones in this too but higher level