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- From: mgwheele@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Matthew G Wheeler)
- Subject: Re: Training on PC's (repost)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.175224.24018@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1993Jan6.134147.14504@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1993Jan6.183336.20971@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:52:24 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.183336.20971@klaava.Helsinki.FI> linkosal@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tapio Linkosalo) writes:
- >Brian Marshall Sadler (bms7y@ggsun.ee.Virginia.EDU) wrote:
- >> I was surprised when I got no reply (over the holidays)
- >> so here I go again...
- >>
- >> Anybody using Microsoft Flight Simulator for training?
- >> How about other software?
- >
- >I just flew MS FS today, but there are a few snags in using it for
- >model training: the plane changes to a point too soon as you
- >fly away, and if you lose horizont (easily!) you have no idea
- >how high you are. Nice simulator, though.
- >
- Just hit the '+' and '-' keys occationally to zoom in and out to keep the
- field of view that you want. I've put in many hours training for RC flight
- using the MS FS. I think it sped up my learning a lot. With the aircraft
- design feature you can set up a plane to have similar flight characteristics
- and colors to your model.
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- Matt
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