December 28, 200520 yr I have completed 25 hours of the private pilots course in the UK. I have started the navigation part of the course and wondered if Radar Contact would be useful to me. Circuit procedures (so glad to be out the circuit!), zone transits etc are all things I am just starting to do in the real world - will RC4 help me practice these?I do very little airline style flying these days since I started the PPL.Ray Keattch
December 28, 200520 yr Moderator Hi Ray,Radar Contact v4 is purely IFR so it probably won't be suitable for you. Future versions may include a VFR rules. Drop a line to the developers. You'll find them in the Radar Contact Forum here on AvSim.Cheers, Ray (Cheshire, England). System: P3D v5.3HF2, Intel i9-13900K, MSI 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G, Crucial T700 4Tb M.2 SSD, Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000Mhz RAM, Win 11 Pro 64-bit, BenQ PD3200U 32” UHD monitor, Fulcrum One yoke, Fulcrum Throttle Quadrant. Cheadle Hulme Weather website.
December 28, 200520 yr Hi Ray,The default should be good for your purpose I think.BTW.. Is there a landing fee for touch and go in the UK? how much is it?BTW...what plane do you fly and what is the hourly rate, if you don't mind me asking? I heard , its very expensive there hence my Q. :) Manny Beta tester for SIMStarter
December 28, 200520 yr >I have completed 25 hours of the private pilots course in the>UK. I have started the navigation part of the course and>wondered if Radar Contact would be useful to me. Circuit>procedures (so glad to be out the circuit!), zone transits etc>are all things I am just starting to do in the real world ->will RC4 help me practice these?Hi Ray,No, great add-on that it is, Radar Contact most definitely will not help you in the areas you mention and, in fact, it could even hinder and confuse you. The airspace model is entirely American and many of the procedures and some of the RT phraseology also still show their US origins. Things like LARS, zone transits and MATZ penetrations are a total mystery to it! :-)Good luck with your PPL - I finished mine 30 years ago but I can still remember every moment as if it were yesterday. And when you get your licence and feel like coming back to Flight Sim for some airline-style flying, RC will be the perfect program for you.Pete
December 28, 200520 yr >Hi Ray,>>The default should be good for your purpose I think.>>BTW.. Is there a landing fee for touch and go in the UK? how>much is it?>>BTW...what plane do you fly and what is the hourly rate, if>you don't mind me asking? I heard , its very expensive there>hence my Q. :)Landing fees in the UK are approx
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