I was never a fan of flying small, prop aircraft in fs for two reasons-one, my joystick sucked and it made controlling it a bitch (that's been resolved now). Two, I was always more into commercial aviation.

Anyways, with my solo coming up, I figured I'd load up a flight at my airport (Wings-in the game it's N67, in real life it's KLOM) and do a curcuit or two.

And man did I suck.

It was terrible, I was all over the place. The very first time I flew a traffic pattern in real life I nailed it, and I've probably flown like 30 since. And you mean I can't get one good pattern in on fs?

I was wondering if any other RL pilots here had noticed that they flew better in real life than on the sim.

True Charlie, but the insurance is much cheaper on FS, and the way you drive Harvards that HAS to be a good thing

YES, flying is MUCH easier in real life. Especially aerobatics and helos! Here are some of the advantages:

Being able to look around
Peripheral vision
Being able to feel movements
Things are much easier to see
Real controls, no mouse clicking or keyboards to slow stuff down
better instruments (more detailed and easier to see)

There are more but I'm short of time.

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I sure as hell don't!

Plus I'm quite fond of the ATC, they've helped me too many times for me not to be!

i think the thing about real life in comparison of the sim is the complications.  Its easier to fly in real life because you can feel your airplane.  However, theres a lot of factors you have to worry about, and at times it feels like you can't always fly the way you want to fly.  At the airport, im busy feeling the push because theres airliners holding short waiting for me in my little cessna 172 to get off the ground for example!    Gotta love class B airspace    Though I kinda wish I didnt live so close to the city at times.

I could, but i need money to move out too 

It made my training kinda slow in certain areas, but its a good learning experience to operate in a busy airport.  Dodging heavies, avoiding jet blasts, talking to ATC whose always yabbing away, tuning so many different frequencies,argh hehe

Yes, the feeling is great of real flying.

I am with Mobius. Flying a 172 around in FS gets old fast. The municipal airport I fly out of sits right on the line (literally it bisects the airport) of the Class-B airspace around Dallas, Texas. So our takeoff procedures either way involve a quick turn to the east before climbing above 4,000 feet. In FS, it's no big deal, I can fly over Dallas VFR with my radios off and ATC is like "whateva." And I miss the controller in the tower at my airport, he is a nice guy lets us do a lot of fun stuff and throws a joke in occasionally. Big change of pace to finish an airline flight with those serious busy controllers at DFW then come home and be laid back.

Just, FS needs more depth. More real world feel, not the perfect enhanced robot feel it has right now. But it's a sim, what are we to ask of it? It's pretty good for the technology available. And, if all else fails, rent a 172. Nothing is as beautiful as sunrise in an airplane.

lol beautiful beef. Ya it didn't take me long to figure out that controllers who read you you're taxi clearance were perfectly satisfied if you replied with "taxi 35, 3 tango bravo". Fair enough. But no, the sim it would be, "Taxi to and hold short of runway 35 using taxiway Charlie, Delta, Tango 1, Tango 3, Delta, Foxtrot, Mooney November five five three tango bravo."