33 minutes ago, DJJose said:

Study level is advanced ground training to facilitate the ability press buttons. 😀

Plenty of manuals available on line for many tube liners. When I used to fly the 737, I got a manual for it, and studied that quite a bit. Don't have to have the aircraft to start studying it. 

https://www.marvgolden.com/avsoft-quick-study-guide-b737-ng.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiA6NOPBhCPARIsAHAy2zBh1lQzrXnPHxrBfaXLZTsevY_L4NOzO8tWzMVREIKhvVqQQC0d2nMaAsNREALw_wcB

 

Edited January 29, 20224 yr by Bobsk8

Hardcore flightsimmers consist entirely of people who really should get out more. 

5 hours ago, GSalden said:

I don’t think so 🤔

, said the flight sim gearhead 😆

It's okay to be an FSG Gerard, in fact I'm jealous and would love to 'fly' in your setup 😁

8 minutes ago, Noel said:

, said the flight sim gearhead 😆

It's okay to be an FSG Gerard, in fact I'm jealous and would love to 'fly' in your setup 😁

If  you ever going to visit Rotterdam let me know. I am living just half an hour away ….

You’re welcome to try 

Edited January 29, 20224 yr by GSalden

Rather than this empty shell called "hardcore simming" we should concentrate on proper airmanship, and debate about whether this MSFS allows one to perform his skills as he would in the real world according to procedures, numbers, weather, knowledge of the aircraft and of its capabilities, etc...

To illustrate the difference, I performed a CAT 3 approach at EBBR last week with the FBW A320 and did like the "pro" would have done i.e. leave the AP on until my main gear touched the runway, was that a demonstration of fine piloting skills?  The AP did it for me, I only knew how to programme the MCDU. Yesterday I landed on RWY 10 at St Barth with the Bonanza, was it more challenging than my CAT 3 at EBBR? You bet it was.

Try your hand landing the FBW A320 at Madeira RWY 5, the CJ4 at Gilgit (Pakistan), the Trinidad TB21 at Tioman (Malaysia), or your brand new Twin Otter at Megève, can MSFS allow that? Yes. Can you use the AP, nope! Once you will have performed one of these, you will certainly feel differently than - for example - after the transatlantic flight from TFFF to LFPO which I just completed fifteen minutes ago with the Airbus A330 Neo, all automatic, no surprise, a lot of fun planning manually the flight plan with SkyVectors, playing with the winds aloft, programming the MCDU, take-off, climb, and go about my life until it was time to start the descent (sorry no VNAV yet). 

90% of my flying is in the bush, off airport, on water, short, rough, sloping, rough weather, strong winds, often navigation is by topographic map... Its tough, but its fun, is it any more tough than managing an MCDU and being able to set up all the procedures for an airliner to smoothly get passengers from A-B? no, it's just different.

No point playing who's better, we're all flying pretend airplanes, we need to focus more on being a community, we share something in common, no need to get tribal and try to proove who's fun time is more valid...

Hard to take people seriously as a 'hardcore simmer' when half of them are in their underpants while justifying it XD

Yesterday I landed at Skiathos (Orbx) manually starting at 10 DME SKP 2000 ft . It is a sloped runway so very nice to practice 😊

There was some crosswind so the approach was with the nose at about 7 degrees offset.

Even people standing at the runway fences.

 

 

That is a gorgeous airport! Been enjoying flying in the Agean Sea recently.

10 hours ago, GSalden said:

You are writing a lot, making all kinds of assumptions, but you are saying nothing ….

Says the guy who has posted 10 more times on this thread since this message but still hasn't answered a simple question that several people have asked him...   😂

So, one more try, in case you actually want to participate in a discussion rather than just insult people and show off the fancy hardware in your signature:

How do you define "hardcore simmer"?      If you state that "MSFS is not for the hardcore simmer" you must have some criteria for making that judgement.   Why not share it with us so we can actually test the internal validity of your assertion, even if we don't agree with your categorization?

That's all I want.  If you're going to make a statement that's not completely meaningless, you must have definable terms.

I flew into LaGuardia airport this morning from Baltimore Washington in the Kodiak to see what the Northeaster Snowstorm would be like. Weather approaching KLGA was just about spot on according to the Metar. It was windy, snowy, runway VSR around 3500 feet, and I broke out of the overcast at around 200 feet AGL, just making out the approach lights. Took all the rudder I had to align with the runway due to gusty crosswinds 32-43 mph. With all that I touched down at 53 fpm......  Fun morning with MSFS.  

The problem with 'hardcore'

is that everyone's definition differs.

Just having a full sim cockpit makes you wealthy enough to afford one, you might still fly into terrain left and right just for laughs, not hardcore...

So who knows what 'hardcore' actually is.

Sim simmer! Pass me de keys to my Bimmer!

40 minutes ago, AvAngel said:

So who knows what 'hardcore' actually is.

Well, if you type hardcore into Google, I'm pretty sure the top hits won't be about aeroplanes, but there may be some joysticks involved. 🤣

The real hardcore simmers are the ones who set themselves on fire when they get shot down in DCS, or shoot themselves in the head when they lose in their first person shooter game. Hardcore flight simmers have an open can of petrol on their desk so they have a constant smell of Avgas in the room and wait 25 minutes to push back whilst waiting for an imaginary late passenger's bag's to be offloaded from the first ULD which went into hold 13 in the front of their A320 and the Trepel won't work so the rampies have to wait ten minutes for TCR to show up and fix it. Everyone else is just playing at it.

 

 

 

Edited January 29, 20224 yr by Chock

Chock!  He lives!

2 hours ago, jarmstro said:

Hardcore flightsimmers consist entirely of people who really should get out more. 

 

Does that include those who wear captain's hats and play on triple monitors with additional control panels, rumble packs under their butts and ipads displaying active flight plans when they play?