FSX for revision??

It takes some guts to admit that you have dabbled a lot into Flight Sim X, prior and during you flight training. It does sound rather nerdy especially to outsiders that you consider yourself a trans world explorer without even leaving your house.

Well anyway, may people may have this question on their minds, but are too afraid to ask it to avoid the "You are a nerd" look, does Flight Sim X (or other Sims) help you in flight training.

Well after going through the Instruments syllabus I must admit, the answer is yes. If you purchase one of these custom made addons that have been made by people in the know, you could find yourself visualising all those complicated instruments. You could also place yourself at a certain altitude, and see the relation ship between your Indicated air speed, True Airspeed and Mach number. Want to see the effect of temperature changes for "real"? Simply change the temp. Pressure changes? Is it really "High to Low, down you go"?

However, I must stress the need for custom addons. It seems that the default Flight sim x aircraft have a lack of detail when it comes to the more complicated instruments, like the INS and FMS. It seems that the makes think that everyone will be using the GPS these days, when in reality we don't. So avoid. Also do bare in mind that there are no 100% accurate models, but something that shouldn't trouble you in the ATPL ground exams, Type ratings maybe, but that is something that we don't have to worry about just yet.

So hold you geeky chin up high simmers, you are almost "as real as it gets"