I done a Cessna flight all myself without any experience apart from some PC stuff (FS5.1 I think). I shouldnt have told lied and said I had 5 hrs already but I wasn't going to pay $40 and watch the instructor fly. Done my first glider flight as well, start to finish, landing in a windy day in Scotland, never realised how much cross co-ordination you need to do!! 737, why not! Pilots are some sort of superhumans with out of this world skills that you only gain through "official trainin".Put it like this, would you be able to fly a 1000hp Spitfire by only having flown a Tiger moth before???? You get the joke right?

You mean, like all those lads in World War II who had to transition quickly from trainer to Spitfire (OK, they flew in a Harvard beforehand), but were online fighter pilots after 10 hours solo...:)Andrew

I don't mean to show off here, but I think I could... :(

Lol! You are an a330 Captain! I would like to think you could land an aircraft! :LMAO:Aaron G.

Quick question, is there lag on the vertical speed indicators on the 737's like there are in R/W Cessna 172's that I fly?

No. Airliners are most often equipped with I-VSI. It's explained in the Grey Jepp book if you want to read up on it.

Edited February 27, 201214 yr by scandinavian13

My answer is maybe.People that havent ever flown a plane seem to be so confident about being able to fly it properly.Its not that pmdg is bad, but in pc or a sim you wont ever have the exact feel of a real plane. Why?in real life, when you move the yoke youre moving a complex mechanism with a different and real feel. And you can also kill yourself, unlike in a simIts like compairing driving a car in a sim vs real life, if youve ever done that,you know how different it feels, i have, and it is very, very different and harder