Simviation Forum - Poll: How do you fly?

Apr 6^th, 2011 at 3:55pm

FlierForLife Offline
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Florida

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This is just a little poll i'd like to do because I am curious about other people's flight sim habits. Just answer these few questions and compare yours to others!

1) Tricycle or taildragger?

2) Jet or prop?

3) Short runway or long runway?

4) Single engine or multi?

5) VFR or IFR?

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Reply #1 - Apr 6^th, 2011 at 4:12pm

-Crossfire- Offline
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Northern Canada

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1. Both
2. Both
3. Both
4. Both
5. Both

Grin

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Reply #2 - Apr 7^th, 2011 at 7:51am

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most of it.
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same here - both to all of them.
My radio control is tail dragger, only way to fly with slightly long grass at times. Grin

regards

Steve

May the Mynd be with you.
So far my number of landings either passenger or pilot equal my number of takeoffs, but that is due to change

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Reply #3 - Apr 8^th, 2011 at 11:43am

specter177 Offline
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In flightsim I fly just about everything.

In real life:
1. Both
2. Prop
3. Short
4. Single
5. VFR

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Reply #4 - Apr 9^th, 2011 at 1:04pm

ViperPilot Offline
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KLMO Denver, CO USA

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Answers to the Poll...

1) I fly both styles an equal amount.
2) About 80% prop - 20% jet.
3) Both, but I prefer off-airport.
4) 60% single - 40% multi.
5) 90% VFR - 10% IFR.

Alan

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Reply #5 - Apr 10^th, 2011 at 5:23am

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I fly everything really.

i5 3570K @ 4.3GHz, ASRock Z77 Pro3, EVGA GTX 670 FTW, 8GB DDR3, 128GB Samsung 830, 500GB Seagate Barracuda, Thermaltake Armor A60, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Logitech K800, Logitech M510, Windows 8 Pro x64, FSX Acceleration

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Reply #6 - Apr 10^th, 2011 at 5:29pm

snippyfsxer Offline
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I only fly the Ultra Trike with a Crossfill-enabled Reality-XP Garmin suite/WX500 Weather Radar as 2D popups. Huh

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Reply #7 - Apr 12^th, 2011 at 10:01pm

Stewy44 Offline
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1) Tricycle

2) Tubes (737 and above) 98% of the time

3) Mostly major airports

4) Multi Wink

5) IFR 99% of the time

FS9 - the only way you can fly a 747 while drinking beer

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Reply #8 - Apr 19^th, 2011 at 2:47pm

patchz Offline
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1) Both, plus amphibian and floats.

2) 85% prop, 15% jet (military only)

3) 75% short, 25% long

4) 75% single, 25% twin

5) VFR only

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #9 - Apr 19^th, 2011 at 2:52pm

ozzy72 Offline
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On the deck at silly speeds! Or in impossibly small spaces in stupidly large aircraft Cool

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #10 - Apr 19^th, 2011 at 6:46pm

Steve M Offline
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Cambridge On.

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Mostly tricycle.. Some taidraggers
Mostly Props..
Any runway when fuel gets low..
Mostly Twins..
VFR by day, IFR by night..

Flying with twins is a lot of fun..

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Reply #11 - Apr 19^th, 2011 at 8:20pm

Flying Trucker Offline
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An Old Retired Rocking
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Goodly evening...

1) Tricycle or taildragger?...not sure my chair is a rocker if
                                       that helps...

2) Jet or prop?...................whats a jet????????????

3) Short runway or long runway?...hmmm...they all look the
                                          same through the wobbly
                                          pop glass

4) Single engine or multi?........oh I only try to fly one at
                                          a time...I don't do that
                                          formation stuff

5) VFR or IFR?.......................no I usually use a Cessna

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                                          Real Flying       Simulated
1) Tricycle or taildragger?       Both                Both

2) Jet or prop?                      Both                Both

3) Short runway or long runway? Both                Both

4) Single engine or multi?       Both                Both

5) VFR or IFR                         Both                Both

Now being retired we both try to fly with another licenced aviator and we do a lot of grass root flying (flying off small grass strips, usually farmers fields with a strip or small bugsmasher fields), we also aviate off floats, amphibious floats and wheel skis when the opportunity arises.

We do not rent but we do borrow Mother Natures Sky... Wink

« Last Edit: Apr 20^th, 2011 at 6:28am by Flying Trucker »

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #12 - Apr 21^st, 2011 at 5:21pm

Polar_Lion Offline
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Maine, USA

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Both

Prop mostly but jets too when i feel the need for speed

Long mostly but i like the little Hidde away airports as my destination. sometimes water. i have a sweet little floatplane for that

Both

VFR 75% of the time. IFR when i want to Fly through snow storms. try Flying from Boston Logan to BarHarbor in white out conditions Grin

"Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose."

-Tom Krause

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Reply #13 - Apr 24^th, 2011 at 11:12am

Strategic Retreat Offline
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1) Both, with a small preference for taildraggers

2) Piston powered props mainly, turboprop rarely, jet very, very, very rarely if ever

3) Doesn't matter, as long the landing is not boring (the more challenging, the better)

4) Not an important parameter. I fly both indiscriminately as long they are worth it.

5) IFR mainly, VFR from time to time (but under X-plane, which is the best sim for VFR on the market right now)

Cool

There is no such a thing as overkill. Only unworthy targets.

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Reply #14 - Apr 24^th, 2011 at 3:54pm

RaptorF22 Offline
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1. both
2. both
3. both
4. both
5. mainly VFR

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