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18/01/2005, 12:33 PM fran fairley Joined on 11/12/2003 Posts 46 help needed on flight sim can anyone please give me some advice. i got century of flight for my christmas called a century of flight.it is excellent but i am having difficulty flying the cessna 175..i can manage everything except the landing..i keep on missing the hoops..i am either too far to the left or right ..any ideas..!!    Report

18/01/2005, 12:40 PM Rebel Aviator Joined on 26/10/2002 Posts 132 RE: help needed on flight sim Learn how to fly! Sorry a bit of a cheap answer but without seeing what you are doing wrong it is difficult to see what control inputs are not working for you. Flight skill training isn't given by correspondence course for this reason. I suggest you try and find someone local to you who is able to do it and get them to critique your approach. There may be some on line sim operations where someone can moinitor your actions over the internet and advise but i am afraid i can't point you in the right direction. Sorry.    Report

07/02/2005, 1:52 PM Gavin Lock Joined on 07/02/2005 Posts 2 RE: help needed on flight sim I agree with Ian's point about not being able to teach you without watching you but if you, like me, don't have anyone to help you out while sitting next to you, maybe this will help. Don't concentrate on getting through the first hoop, and then shift your attention to the next. This works when you drive a normal car, taking one turn after another. Planes are more like racing cars: You have to plan your entry to this corner is such a way that your exit from the corner is already in line with the entry to the next. If you concentrate instead on getting the hoops lined up so that you see each one neatly surrounding all the others after it (even if on your first few tries you miss some early hoops while lining up) then you should find it a lot easier. Of course, racing cars don't go up and down (at least, they shouldn't!) but the vertical aspect is similar to the horizontal, find the line or curve that passes through all of them. In a no-wind scenario like most of the training lessons, once you have lined the plane up in this way and throttled/trimmed it for the correct rate of descent you could take your hands of the stick and watch the plane fly itself through the rest of the hoops until it thuds heavily onto the runway. Also, remember that you are looking out of the left-hand side of the ****pit, not the center. Most people take this for granted, but the flat nature of the computer monitor sometimes takes many od the cues your mind is used to when looking out of a real windscreen. As a South African (we drive on the left-hand side of the road, therefore the right-hand side of the car) I had to be aware of this for my first few landings.    Report

07/02/2005, 9:21 PM fran fairley Joined on 11/12/2003 Posts 46 RE: help needed on flight sim hi there thanks for the advice.i actually found it a lot easier on the 2nd part of the lesson to land without the hoops as i tended to over correct a lot of times. i think i concentrated too much on trying to fly through the hoops to the detriment  of watching the instruments.. but i persevered so i  managed to pass the private pilot checkride certificate so am now starting to learn part two and it is not at all easy but fun and very challenging    Report

16/08/2005, 5:13 AM jakob grimsrud Joined on 16/08/2005 Posts 2 RE: help needed on flight sim I acutally have the exact same problem. I dont have a flight stick or joystick, so i try to manage with the keyboard directional arrows. The problem is that by pressing down on one of the directional buttons, I don't know if I'm barely tapping at the yoke, or if I'm turning the yoke all the way to one side. I have to learn how long to hold down the directional buttons for, to achieve a certain pitch right or left. To be honest, I have had FS2002 for a year now and I have never once lined-up and landed on the center of the runway. (Not to mention, rarely landing on the runway at all.) I don't know what I'm doing wrong and I think the problem may be because I don't have a flight stick. Also, Flight Simulator 2002 came with absolutely no rudder control at all. If I want to use the rudder, I have to use the rudder trim and center the trim back when I'm back on course. I've been looking for help for a while now and could really use some advise. thanks, -jakob    Report

16/08/2005, 4:57 PM fran fairley Joined on 11/12/2003 Posts 46 RE: help needed on flight sim Quote: I acutally have the exact same problem. I dont have a flight stick or joystick, so i try to manage with the keyboard directional arrows. The problem is that by pressing down on one of the directional ... hi there..i think you are right. you do need a joystick..i have no probs at all landing ..just have to get the hang of the navigational side of things now..not at all easy..or am i making life difficult for myself.. good luck anyway..    Report

07/02/2007, 2:59 PM IanG Joined on 06/02/2007 manchester UK Posts 28 Re: RE: help needed on flight sim Hey there Flight sims on pc, hmmmm nothing like real flying, personally I think flying a sim is harder than a real plane, unless you have a 3d cockpit and can see the yoke and feel the peddles then it will be hard to tell what you are asking the plane to do. Your also not going to be able to get a 'feel' for the aircraft, like  in a car or on a motorbike you react based on what it tells you it's doing, you cant feel the presure on the yoke it's a up down key and lastly flying is a lot about looking out of the aircraft at the ground, your haven't got good all around vision in the sim. I ride a zx6r 600cc sportsbike in real life but never found a pc or playstation bike game that came anywhere close !. I have played on MS flight sim but in end gave up on it for a GPL free version called flightgear, I have always use the mouse and key board. mouse yoke and keyboard for everything else. There is a really good step by step tutorial at http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/flight_simulator_tutorial.html it will take you a while to run through it but it will mean you can fly. As for the software http://www.flightgear.org/ well worth a try, and free !    Report

13/05/2007, 9:44 PM justin Joined on 13/05/2007 Posts 1 Re: help needed on flight sim try useing the ils and puting you code in you nav    Report

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