Carlstadt Carl

I can't wait for my first solo, this seems like the biggest milestone in my PPL training. Thank you for your kind words. Well, I think I figured out what is wrong with my RL/sim traffic pattern time - me. My real traffic pattern lasts around 6 minutes on average not 8, this is almost the same time as in the sim. Now I have cross-checked the data in TLB: block time 1 h, TTL 50 min, landings=8. This means around 6 min 15 seconds on average, but it is probably even a few seconds less. If I take into consideration all factors like weight and balance, weather, old engine, etc. the real-time and the sim time doesn't differ much. By the feeling, and after some practice, only the downwind leg seems shorter than in real life. All in all, I guess this topic can be locked now but I am really thankful for your responses and help. Thanks for the advice.

@SAS443 Today my pattern looks much better than yesterday, I guess I just need practice. Although I still have the feeling that is much faster than in IRL other guys made some very good points up there. I just have to consider them. All in all, after my 2nd day of flying the sim I think this was a good investment from my side, it is very good to build up your muscle memory and multitasking. One more thing. I have a bug in my heading indicator. Is there any addon out there I can use because it helps me a lot IRL?

Thank you so much, fellas, for your responses, thoughts, and links! I appreciate it. @martinboehme It could be that I fly tighter patterns, and somehow runway looks too close in the downwind phase. Today it looked much better, maybe I was just bad at flying in the beginning. The airfield is located near Zagreb, Croatia, so it is quite obscure and I don't think ground visual references are useful here because I don't think they match reality. Some of them do, but most don't. Immediately after rotation (50 kt), in my RL training, I gently release back pressure and lower the nose to gain Vx. In the sim, after rotation, I don't do that but my speed increases which is not logical to me, so I pull the yoke aft to lose some speed. This is how I got my VSI instrument to skyrocket and how I gained the first 300 ft AGL much faster than in RL. I usually make the first turn 500 AGL or 900 ASL. The second turn I can visualize by 45 degrees related to the runway. @sd_flyer Yep, this C-150 is quite old and a lot of students had their training on it. But thank you too for all the ideas, now I get the bigger picture.

Good points, thank you. Yes, I haven't soloed yet, and since this is the first time I have used SIM, I haven't focused on the fuel quantity but I will look into it for the next time. Thanks for the link, but I get a 404 not found error. Definitively it is not the youngest engine but the difference is still too big.

Hello guys! A few days ago, I managed to build my home SIM setup (yoke plus rudder pedals), and this is my first time using one. I built my SIM setup because I want to stay proficient while not flying during winter and adverse weather and to practice multitasking and muscle memory. I have logged only 10 hours of flight time in RL. That said, you can see I am at the early stage of my flying adventure. Yesterday I bought and installed MSFS 2020, I installed also an addon - an airfield for GA where I do my real-life training and I was flying a similar aircraft (C-152 in sim, C-150 in RL) to create the most realistic replica of real training experience because this is the only reason why I am using the sim. I follow the same procedure in traffic patterns as in real life, the same altitude for flaps retraction, the same altitude for the crosswind, downwind, base, and final turn. The same RPM management as in real life. The same speed (Vx and Vy) management. Carb heat on, flaps down, 1700 RPM decrease like in RL, etc. You get the point. The duration of traffic pattern in sim is about 5 minutes, and in real life is cca 8 minutes. I can feel that in the sim things are going much faster, I climb much more faster than in RL. And this is not something I was looking for. I am aware that different weather conditions can affect a/c performance, but the sim/RL difference here is quite significant. I have turned off all assistant options. Is there anything I can do to improve my sim experience or do I just have to accept that sim doesn't mimic RL as much as I thought so? Thank you for your answers. Regards, CC