February 3, 201313 yr Hi guys (& gals!), Just saying Hi. My name is Helen and I live in St. John's Newfoundland, and I am 10 hours into my PPL. :smile: I have been using flight sims for around 3 years now, in preparation for my PPL. People often don't realise how fantastic flight sims are for learning the theory, and procedural side of aviating. I have been using FSX for 3 years, and also Aerofly FS since it's release. From the sim perspective, I mainly fly GA aircraft, almost exclusively on the MegaScenery Earth 2.0 stuff, and will mainly post on the screenshot forum, as I like to keep a screenshot journal of sim tours I take! Great to meet you all! Helen. x
February 3, 201313 yr Welcome to Avsim Helen, look forward to seeing your screenies. B) What GA aircraft do you usually fly? Jay Vorkapic
February 3, 201313 yr Beware of the dogs! ^_^ More seriously, welcome, Helen. Always nice to see some ladies joining the club as we are a big and sometimes grumpy bunch of mostly men. :blush: Good luck on the PPL by the way. :smile:
February 3, 201313 yr Welcome Helen! I just walked this path you're taking right now, Flight Simulation is a wonderful tool, but don't rely too much on the Flight Dynamics of the simulators for your PPL training, because it's not up to there yet, specially in maneuvers like Stall, and other High Angle of Attack stuff. Instead, read and visualize yourself doing these procedures, step by sep, that did wonders for me! Have fun on your flying lessons, and good luck! Look forward to seeing your screenshots Alexis Mefano
February 3, 201313 yr I always feel excited and have more appreciation for the microsoft flight simulator platforms when a real aviation practitioner uses them for enhancing their skills in few/some aspects such as mentioned by the TS. Good luck
February 3, 201313 yr Welcome to Avsim Helen, look forward to seeing your screenies. B) What GA aircraft do you usually fly? Hey there, I'm learning to fly out of Moncton, and all of my hours except 2 have been in one of the school's Diamond DA20-C1. Two of my hours have been in one of the club's two C172S's... (but I much prefer the Diamond :wink:). I have also flown right seat in a Cirrus SR22; what an airplane! Welcome Helen! I just walked this path you're taking right now, Flight Simulation is a wonderful tool, but don't rely too much on the Flight Dynamics of the simulators for your PPL training, because it's not up to there yet, specially in maneuvers like Stall, and other High Angle of Attack stuff. Instead, read and visualize yourself doing these procedures, step by sep, that did wonders for me! Have fun on your flying lessons, and good luck! Look forward to seeing your screenshots For me, flight sim (FSX) started off purely as a tool for practicing basic theorhetical and procedural aspects of the flight curriculum.... but I have to admit, it then turned into a source of fun! (... to some degree :lol:). My husband does laugh at me and enjoys calling me his "geek". But flying GA across good quality photoscenery is a heck of a lot of fun, and I kinda got hooked. I would never fly across default, or generically generated textures, or in aircraft that I would not see myself flying in real life... (although I may try out twins soon). Heck, I may even venture into the FSX forum one day, and see how long I survive in there; I heard it's wilder than the old wild west! H.
February 3, 201313 yr Heck, I may even venture into the FSX forum one day, and see how long I survive in there; I heard it's wilder than the old wild west! Nicely put. Well, as long as you don't ask for the best 737/757/767/777/weather/texture/pushback addon, you should actually be fine. :lol: I've rendered a small film showing the situation at times. ^_^ Guess I like it, in a way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHUgdwyxTF0 No, not my film.
February 3, 201313 yr I was 16 when I completed all my private pilot training at CYAV. When I turned 17 they handed me my license and I haven't stopped flying. I remember when I first got checked out on the C-172 I had my first tail strike. Just shaved the tie down bolt a little. :lol: Enjoy FSX, your PPL training and Avsim. Welcome aboard RJ
February 3, 201313 yr Nicely put. Well, as long as you don't ask for the best 737/757/767/777/weather/texture/pushback addon No chance of that - I've no interest at all in commercial aviation! I was 16 when I completed all my private pilot training at CYAV. When I turned 17 they handed me my license and I haven't stopped flying. I remember when I first got checked out on the C-172 I had my first tail strike. Just shaved the tie down bolt a little. :lol: Enjoy FSX, your PPL training and Avsim. Welcome aboard RJ CYAV ..... St Andrews? ...... I looked at a flight school there, and in Gander before opting for Moncton as we have family there. Options at home at CYYT were almost non-existent!
February 3, 201313 yr all of my hours except 2 have been in one of the school's Diamond DA20-C1. Made me think about an addon tip. Well, if you're up for receiving a pretty detailed rendition with the included maintenance for example. The dev loves the details! http://www.simflight...tana-4x-review/
February 3, 201313 yr Made me think about an addon tip. Well, if you're up for receiving a pretty detailed rendition with the included maintenance for example. The dev loves the details! http://www.simflight...tana-4x-review/ Wow, that sure looks awesome! .... I think that is a slightly different type to the one I fly, (ours, being basic PPL training aircraft, do not have prop controls; they are fixed pitch)... but nevertheless, there is a lot of familiarity there. I will be looking at that for definite! ... thanks..... :smile:
February 3, 201313 yr Oops, you are right. You are on the Eclipse. Well, he has plans to render her in FSX too, but this will take time. Well, the GA sector in FSX is heavily populated, so there are many options. That one just stands out because he tried to enable all the character traits, good and bad. Don't ask about my engine count. :wacko:
February 3, 201313 yr Hi guys (& gals!), Just saying Hi. My name is Helen and I live in St. John's Newfoundland, and I am 10 hours into my PPL. :smile: Hi Helen. Ken from the "Left coast" of Canada here. Welcome! Great to hear you are on your way to a PPL. Life got in the way of me getting mine. Now at 65 FSX will suffice. :lol: For those of you not from Canada let me say "Newfies" are some of the nicest people walking the face of the earth or flying above it for that matter! Long live The Rock. Ken
February 3, 201313 yr Awww thanks Ken :lol:........ I've got to 'fess' up though and say that I am originally from Dover, DE, US, so cannot take the credit of the fine Newfie humour and personality! ..... however, I have been here in Newfoundland (between Clarke's Beach and St. John's) for some 18 years now, so can consider myself an adopted Newfie. When I first met my husband I thought he had the strangest accent I had ever heard........what I called "Pirate English" ..... sort of a South West English accent (Cornwall, Devon?)...... I was sure he was English.... but his accent is one of the many newfie accents. In the next cove along from where we are, the majority have an Irish accent that you would struggle to tell apart from a real Irish accent! My boss at work has a Scottish accent! .........From an accent point of view, Newfie really is "Little Britain (and Ireland!)". Thanks for the welcome. :smile:
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