How does Flight Simulation Experience Translate to Real World Flight Training? - Q&A #1

[@AviationPro]

Thanks for watching! Timestamps are below! 🏅New! Become a member of the AviationPro channel & unlock extra perks and get access to extra live full flights! bit.ly/41NfbQD ════ 👇 - TIMESTAMPS! - 👇 ════ - 👉 Intro: 0:00 - 👉 Today's question: 0:41 - 👉 How Flight simulation affects your flight training: 1:55 - 👉 How VATSIM helped: 3:26 - 👉 Flying in real life specifically: 4:06 - 👉 Starting flight training without experience: 5:20 - 👉 Do you have to unlearn habits: 6:19 - 👉 On practicing failure scenarios: 8:36 - 👉 Outro: 10:00

[@davidhoward5687]

I'm 34 and started my flight training earlier this year and I must say that flight simming over the years has helped me so much and its still helping me. It helps you remember all the flight maneuvers because when you have a goal of getting your PPL at 40 hours remembering all the flight maneuvers is a must (Power on and power off stalls, s-turns, pattern work, etc...). I can't describe enough how much the sims help with this. My instructor stated that getting your license at 40 hours is insanely hard because most people can't remember all the maneuvers by that time. Take my advice and use it for that.

[@AviationPro]

Good tip!

[@chrismayne1613]

Awesome first Q&A video, really like the concept, and love how you do them during a flight stop over. It's interesting to see all the different places you get to! I'd like to echo others' comments - you've been a massive inspiration to many and it's great to see you continue Aviation Pro now you are a fully-fledged real-world pilot (I think many of us always thought you would be there one day!) As you know I've been on again off again with this hobby, but every time I come back the Aviation Pro channel is my first port of call to get back into the flight simulation world. Thanks for everything you have done for the community Evert you truly are the Aviation Pro!

[@AviationPro]

Thank you for the kind words Chris! :)

[@salvatores3816]

I remember on my flight sim days, during a go around always max power and immediately pitch up. I started an ATPL integrated course and I did a go around on one of my first real flights. The CFI looked at me and told me "You need speed before pitching up, put power and keep an attitude to avoid hitting the runway and then go up like a normal take-off". That was an habit flight simming got me, that I had to get rid off. Well, lesson learned, get speed before pitching up.

[@AviationPro]

That’s a good one, thanks for sharing 😉

[@matiasr1373]

I began flight lessons almost a month ago after flight simming for 19 years, and I agree with everything you said. Funnily enough, I'm doing it in Buenos Aires. My instructor was really surprised with what I knew beforehand. On my first lesson (before any classroom theory) he let me do comms for taxi, and for the second flight the rest of them. Another thing he was pleased with (and considers extremely important) was cockpit knowledge. A habit I didn't have but didn't take much time to get was actually touching stuff in the cockpit as I ran the checklist. Something that I still am struggling with is looking more outside. I realized I look way too much at the attitude indicator and the turn coordinator. Something I find remarkable is how scared I was on my first two takeoffs. I had only flown once in a GA plane before, and it was many years ago. On my first takeoff I didn't expect how loud the engine and vibrations would be, and the summer air once airborne wasn't easy on me either. I also didn't think I would be the one taking off and landing on my first flight. Sudden thermals and wind gusts feel way worse in the real C152 than in the sim ofc lol. Landing, although certainly not easier, wasn't scarier. The fact you are already in the air and the runway getting closer so (relatively) fast gives you no time to get scared. These lessons take 75% of my paycheck each month, and for now I can say it's definitely worth it! Once I was in the air, listening to ATC and looking out the window, realizing that it was no role-play, MSFS nor Vatsim, it felt wonderful. It might sound kinda cringe, but I'm being honest, doing the thing *for real*, fulfilling a long-life dream, is something everyone should experience. I know that when we practice stalls in a few days it won't be easy on me. Every time we practised steep turns and slow flight, I found myself looking rather anxiously at the end of those white and green arcs in the airspeed indicator. My advice for classroom lessons: try to be as open-minded as possible and don't get ahead of what the instructor is teaching. Hopefully someone finds this wall of text helpful. If you got here thanks for reading and have a nice day!

[@AviationPro]

Thanks for sharing! :)

[@Hoekstes]

You’ve come a long way. Can’t stop smiling watching dreams come true. 👍👍

[@AviationPro]

😀

[@infinitewisdom9619]

Really helpful video. There aren't that many videos out there that cover the influence of home flight simulation on pilot training in such detail on a personal level. Thanks a lot!

[@AviationPro]

Thanks for watching! :)

[@g-locmedia]

Watched a lot of your VATSIM videos and always pick up little golden nuggets from you. This was super interesing video.

[@AviationPro]

Thank you!

[@SDFalchetti]

Great video! Simming really helped me know what to expect during my discovery flight. Things like knowing what all the gauges did or how to fly the pattern made the experience less intimidating. Radio communications from PilotEdge directly translated into real life. I'd use the sim to supplement my lessons, doing things like flying cross-countries virtually to think about approaches and terrain. I think simming definitely helps before and even during lessons. On the flip side, I definitely could not land a plane just using my sim skills. It took several lessons and then a lot of teeth-rattling touchdowns to achieve that.

[@AviationPro]

Thank you! It certainly does. Landings are indeed something you have to simply practice in real life, you will develop quite a good feeling of it after a while :)

[@Airbus_A380AX]

Het is fijn om te horen dat flight-simulation je kan helpen bij de flightschool. Interessant video, bedankt!

[@AviationPro]

Thanks!

[@fedest88]

So happy you were in my home country!! Vamos Argentina

[@AviationPro]

It was great! So far one of my favourite cities in South-America :)

[@copper_115]

Great first video in the new series!

[@AviationPro]

Thanks! 😉

[@orlandoochoamendez6508]

Hey capt, thank you for sharing. You have been a real inspiration and source of knowledge for many years. I would even say you are one of the reasons I fell in love with the hobby and, it makes me happy to see how far you have made it. Keep up the great work.

[@AviationPro]

Glad to hear that! :)

[@Floriskwek]

Can you maybe how the selection proces goes in flight school? I want to become a pilot and play alot of flight sim. I want to do the HBO avation in amsterdam.

[@AviationPro]

There will be a related question to this in the question box soon I think :)

[@Floriskwek]

@@AviationPro Whould love to see you talk about! Great video this one btw

[@stevejones924]

Hi AvPro, I have too many subs but will keep yours for nostalgia. You helped make me a sim fan addict. What are you doing now, what plane?

[@AviationPro]

Thanks Steve! I’m now flying on the Boeing 777 & 787 as a Second Officer, MSFS is still a hobby though :)

[@stevejones924]

@@AviationPro Holy Moley! Ever see Swayne Martin on your trips yet? lol

[@AviationPro]

@@stevejones924 Not yet! 😂

[@dmitrya513]

Good digest. I would add that flight sim is even more useful when you already have real experience. As for me, I just almost automatically make sim-wise adjustments when I see the difference in a sim. I say Ok, and continue to fly the sim as normal for the rest. For example to refresh RAW-data approach before check, and it works perfectly. That of course relates to good sim models like PMDG, еtс. Default models could frustrate though. More over I must note that the same real plane could differ from itself a lot depending on conditions. For example light B-767 resembles 757. But when it's heavy it's a completely different story. So flying is all about making adjustments ;-)

[@AviationPro]

Good point! It’s also nice to fine-tune the sim experience that way. You learn so many new things and form new habits in real life, and it’s a fun challenge to incorporate all that in your sim flights

[@Airbus_A380AX]

I’m just wondering, what is the app called you use on your phone to tune frequencies instead of using the flight sim frequency tuner?

[@AviationPro]

Used to use RemoteflightCOMM, now using SimFlyPad with the 737 cockpit profile

[@vinceadrielle767]

nice video capt ive been waiting for this cheers!

[@AviationPro]

Thanks for watching!

[@Fish-bj1sj]

Great video! New subscriber here! Starting my journey from a da20 katana to the big birds.

[@AviationPro]

Thanks! Good luck with your journey!

[@michaelcarter6238]

Are you a real pilot do you work for a airline as I do or do you enjoy posting vatsim videos . Your very good at what you have learnt

[@AviationPro]

Both nowadays! Thank you so much! :)

[@FrapachinoPlz]

Long time !

[@AviationPro]

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