Wow thanks man

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The worst kind of freight - self loading and too demanding, lol.Is the 747 heavy enough? Currently flying 747-400 and 747-8 for work. Previously on 777/767. Fly my personal Corvalis TTx for fun and volunteering with Angel Flight Oklahoma.

In. Did about 11 hours in various planes in 2008/09, but then stopped (I was studying at school at the time 16/18 or so and it was expensive).

Found microsoft flight simulator and my old joystick/throttle and forgot how much I enjoyed it, so booked in a few lessons.

Learning with an ex-RAF pilot and commercial airline pilot now and on 15 hours. Aiming to do 4-5 hours a month and get my PPL.


Not sure what my long term plan is atm. I'd like to do further qualifications like night ratings and tailwheel conversions. I think it could be cool to get something like a King Air 350 or PC-12 and fly around Europe in it, and/or perhaps something smaller like a Vans RV8 to fly around the UK in or fly up to Scotland and do some fly fishing.

You'll wanna get instrument rated too. Nothing spoils a planned day out more than a low ceiling for a VFR pilot.

Mirin

Funny enough I am on MSFS probably 5 days a week. 300 hours IRL and everything up through multi commercial and I have flown once in maybe 5 years and it wasn’t even where I live. MSFS is cheaper lol

That's true. Do you know how many hours / costs involved for a Full IR? I had a quick google but some places were saying 5-10 hours, others were saying 55+ hours and ground school time?What do you do on MSFS for 5 days a week? I did all the tutorials and schoolwork recently which was really good fun before I decided to start my flying again and that helped bring it back and refresh my memory on a lot of things. The rest of it just seems like you pick one of their planes and fly to a destination, but at least from what ive seen there is no need for radio calls, speaking to ATC or multiplayer?

I really, really wish they turned it into a good single player/campaign mode. I know its a simulator, not a game, so they wont. But imagine if you started off doing your flight training, then you could earn money doing little jobs here and there, then buy your own grass strip runway, then hangar, then buy different planes, then do crop dusting or transporting or chartering and build your way up to a private tarmac runway with a G550 or something. More of a story line / plot would be great. The new MSFS looks cool, but it doesnt include that.




300 hours is good! Did you ever fly for a job? Or did you just do all the lessons/exams and get your licenses, then stop flying?

I'm at a bit of a fork in the roads atm. I think flying for a job would be awesome and super fulfilling, but then at the same time I really enjoy what I do now and it has WAY more flexibility. I think I'll just continue learning and getting my courses and see what I feel like doing in 3-5 years time.

There is no need to hurry. If you keep doing the ratings eventually you gonna get close and say: "Why not!?".

About MSFS, it sucks. The "surgeon simulator" equivalent for planes. The only utility it has is probably the chance to do some chair flying/train some procedures (mostly the order of it) - if you already know them ofc. Everything else sucks: it is awful at simulating weather, no ATC calls, no need to respect air law, no need to plan, no need to have any navigation knowledge whatsoever, no need to know about the aircraft... "ground effect" doesn't work, some aircraft systems are WAY off, physics are way off... and it gets easy to see even in small simple aircrafts like the cessna 152. Examples:

1. Park brake system doesn't work like that irl;
2. Trim system doesn't work in the game;
3. Cessna 152 doesn't behave like that during a stall irl;
4. ...etc.


In small Not to mention you the main difference between ms flight simulator and real life: the Human factors (the noise, the heat, the vibrations, the accelerations,...).

Right now I use an app called a pilots life. It’s pretty fun.

I wanted to be a pilot forever but when I graduated college I got a job working for an airline in OPS. I kind of got used to the lifestyle of free flights and being home every night. I got most licenses by time I was 20 then just kind of stopped because we wanted to buy a house. Now I have some health issues that would likely prevent me from getting a medial again but that’s questionable. I want to try to fly again because the wife wants me to. I’m with club out of BFI that has the cheapest rates anywhere on the west coast so it’s at least a reasonable cost.

Yeah, it has limitations for sure. Before when I was learning on a 172 or DA-20 I had the same planes in MSFS, so it was handy to remind myself where things were in the cockpit. It was also handy for practicing circuits, reminding myself of BUMFFISH on downwind and interesting of course to fly around different places.

What I find a bit of an issue on it now (apart from them not having the plane im flying in TB9), it takes me too long to remember the controls and isnt as natural as actually flying and you're right about the trim system too.

About to book in a couple more lessons for next week today. Trying to book in my Class 2 medical too, going to give them another call today and get that ticked off.

Not sure if the rules are the same in the US or Europe, but in the UK when I was last learning before, the flying school insisted on doing Air Law exam and Human Performances exam, but a new rule came out which requires you to do all the exams 18 months from finishing the first? So now a lot of flying schools aren't insisting on you doing any exams before your first solo and they are advising to do them way further down the line all together. I think you can do them online now too with the CAA? I need to look into it.


The things that I am trying to remember atm:
When to put carb heat on and for how long. I know on BUMFFISH I usually put carb heat on at the start and then off again at the end, so 30 secs or so.
When to put mixture to rich,when to turn off and why.
I still haven't learnt much about the radio, what SQUARK is, transponders or tuning it. I've just done basic calls to ATC requesting airfield information, take off, taxiways etc.
And I haven't learnt much about navigation yet. I guess that's because you focus on basic flying handling, then circuits, then navigation after that. My knowledge has come from MSFS. It's all visual atm, which was handy when I lived where I used to live because I knew like a 100 mile radius by the motorways,london, coastline etc - now it's not so easy for me. Instructor usually says "Change to heading 180" or something and I just follow that through.

I'm finding that the actual flying is easy now and second nature. Stall recovery is within 50ft and very quick, very confident in steep turns, slow flight, flight with flaps, take offs and the last 3-4 landings and touch and go's I've done have all be smooth (so far)

edit: I read on bloomberg or somewhere the other day that Canada Air are losing loads of pilots because they are offering $280K CAD a year for commercial airline pilots and American Airlines are offering $590K now so everyones going with them? That's insane? I always thought that commercial airline pilots were starting around £60-85K and then after a few years when they make captain £120-150K? Anyone know what the pension/401K contributions are like too?

Do you pilots run through the hot young stewardesses?

Also, are they pimped out?

Srs questions

Came in expecting pics of flight attendant sloots ??




Can pilot brahs aware me on how to bang flight attendants? some of those sloots are filthy