Indeed, glide slope receivers and needles were often lacking…ILS
…and even when things were present, who said they were working right!
P.S. Don’t tell Evan.
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Indeed, glide slope receivers and needles were often lacking…ILS
I mean...I have seen people who weren't terribly good pilots, but I don't think I have seen very many who didn't seem to want to be pilots in the first place. I feel like someone gave her this whole airplane idea and she went with it, but there was never any real commitment. It was clearly not her thing.Believe it or not, I agree with you.I watched a couple of her remaining videos, and what struck me was not her "lack of knowledge", but that I felt like her heart was never in any of this. She did not seem to especially like neither that airplane, nor flying in general.
Also, he seems to be focusing on the wrong issues. For example in this video, the main point she is making is that she accidentally turned off her Garmin and didn't know how to turn it back on. Surely, that's not great, but what about her inability to hold a heading or altitude or her total lack of positional awareness? That's much worse and I am not sure she even realized that this was an issue, or happening at all.
I think you both misunderstoodPS: HSIs are fancy things that Gabriel and I didn’t have in our cheap ass training planes…right up there with dual VOR thingies.
Are you kidding? There were 2 VORs, both of them with DME, one of them was also ILS, you had the OMI markers indicators, and you could change the VOR2 for an ADF. That is 1 full VOR and 1 full DME more than my best Tomahawk had.I think you both misunderstood
I first learned not even on MSFS but on the C-64 version of Flight Simulator II. Which did have two VOR receivers but that was it.
Cross countries were terrible. In some cities (like Chicago, San Francisco and New York) you have enough ugly visual cues to more or less tell where you were.Out the window, all you got was solid green, and between the low resolution and terrible framerate even if there was something in sight you couldn't do much with it. (And while there was a scrolling overhead map, it took long enough to load that you didn't switch to it unless you absolutely had to, plus it mostly didn't show anything but the solid green ground anyway.) So, only way to know where you are is to tune the radios and twiddle the OBS headings.
I'd say I had a very good horizontal situation awareness too. But that day I made a mistake. One that could have been fatal (except that it was in a sim).Enough of that and I learned to visualize the horizontal situation without digging the chart out.
Speed reading seems unreliable. The pilot should relentlessly pull-up.
Misunderstandings:I'd say I had a very good horizontal situation awareness too. But that day I made a mistake.
As already mentioned (and as the screenshot above shows)... it did.(I think [not_italics]we all started on FS for Commodore 64, and you could learn basic navigation. I even think I had an ADF option...maybe.
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