How many real pilots here? :)

[VBF-12_Gosling]

What about Military and Ex Mil pilots

[bongodriver]

I bet the dork pilots can out fly the real pilots.

In simulations I bet they can too, simtechs can often fly the simulators better than real pilots because they just big computers and the simtechs can fly numbers very well, turn the tables and put a 'dork' or simtech into the real thing and it's a different story, in the real world wether you are military or civil you have to deal with spatial orientation and situational awareness and many outside influences i.e. accelration forces on the vestibular system (balance), seat of the pants type stuff that simulators will never recreate.

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

In simulations I bet they can too, simtechs can often fly the simulators better than real pilots because they just big computers and the simtechs can fly numbers very well, turn the tables and put a 'dork' or simtech into the real thing and it's a different story, in the real world wether you are military or civil you have to deal with spatial orientation and situational awareness and many outside influences i.e. accelration forces on the vestibular system (balance), seat of the pants type stuff that simulators will never recreate.

No acceleration forces in a FOO Fighter with the inertia dampeners!!!

[bongodriver]

No acceleration forces in a FOO Fighter with the inertia dampeners!!!

This is true

[kimosabi]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

In simulations I bet they can too, simtechs can often fly the simulators better than real pilots because they just big computers and the simtechs can fly numbers very well, turn the tables and put a 'dork' or simtech into the real thing and it's a different story, in the real world wether you are military or civil you have to deal with spatial orientation and situational awareness and many outside influences i.e. accelration forces on the vestibular system (balance), seat of the pants type stuff that simulators will never recreate.

Exactly why I'm starting my PPL training. I want to feel my pants.

[Cap Loz]

ATPL(H), ATPL(A) flew military and Civil Airlines for 39.5 years and retired to this and other Sims 18 months ago.

[bongodriver]

Exactly why I'm starting my PPL training. I want to feel my pants.

I became a pilot in the vain hope that somebody else would want to feel my pants, sadly it seems chicks don't dig pilots that much........just money, and I'm affraid being a pilot isn't the well paid glamour job it used to be.

[kimosabi]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

I became a pilot in the vain hope that somebody else would want to feel my pants, sadly it seems chicks don't dig pilots that much........just money, and I'm affraid being a pilot isn't the well paid glamour job it used to be.

Taking them for a ride didn't work either?